Loading…

Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue is unavailable, but you can change that!

Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), mystic and doctor of the church, wrote The Dialogue, her crowning spiritual work, for “the instruction and encouragement of all those whose spiritual welfare was her concern.”

love sincerely. It is just like a vessel that you fill at the fountain. If you take it out of the fountain to drink, the vessel is soon empty. But if you hold your vessel in the fountain75 while you drink, it will not get empty: Indeed, it will always be full. So the love of your neighbor, whether spiritual or temporal, is meant to be drunk in me, without any self-interest. I ask you to love me with the same love with which I love you. But for me you cannot do this, for I loved you without being
Page 121