Daily Catholic Quote — Saint Catherine of Siena
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “I tell you, charity to our neighbors for God’s sake is the fire that cleanses the soul.” (Saint Catherine of Siena) The Memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church (1347 – 138…
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There are many fascinating stories about St. Catherine of Siena. She once almost got her head cut off. Another time, she caught the head of someone else just after it was cut off. Jesus literally removed her heart and replaced it with is own; she had the scars to prove it. Demons obeyed her. Popes […]
St. Catherine of Siena is an example to us of the tremendous gifts of the love of a spiritual mother on fire with God’s love and a deep desire for souls to reach the heights of heaven. While the call to spiritual motherhood can vary based on God’s designs, it is a vocation that calls a woman to a deep and expansive love for the sake of Christ and His Church through Our Blessed Mother.
Catherine of Siena moved in remarkably wide circles for a woman of fourteenth century Italy. She was a mystic whose plunge into God plunged her deep into the affairs of society, Church and the souls of all those who came under her influence. (Suzanne Noffke, O.P., The Dialogue, Foreword, xi.) I am very grateful that […]
When we contemplate, we set aside a place, either externally in the physical world or interiorly within our minds and hearts, or both, to ponder, observe, and meditate. After Catherine donned the habit of the Mantellate she spent three years in seclusion, except when she went to church for confession and Mass, in the small […]
In Rome, at the general audience on 24 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said, “Today I would like to talk to you about a woman who played an eminent role in the history of the Church: St Catherine of Siena. The century in which she lived — the 14th — was a troubled period in […]
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