Sunday, March 10 : Saint Catherine of Siena

[Sainte Catherine heard God say to her :] Open, my daughter, the eye of your intelligence; You will discover the blind and ignorant, and you will also see the imperfect and the perfect that really follow me. You will thus experience the pain of the damnation of the ignorant and the joy for the perfection of my beloved children. You will also discover the behavior of those who go to my light and those who go in darkness. But before I want you to look at the Bridge, that I have built for you in my only son, and that you contemplate His grandeur which goes from heaven to earth; Since the greatness of His divinity is united to the earth of your humanity. This is why I tell you that He goes from heaven to earth, by the union He made with man. This was necessary to restore the path that was broken, as I told you, and allow you to cross the bitterness of the world, to reach life. Starting from the earth, it would not be possible to establish a bridge of sufficient size to cross the river and join eternal life. The land of human nature was incapable by itself alone to satisfy sin and destroy the stain of sin from Adam who corrupted and infected the whole human race, as I already told you. It was therefore necessary to unite it to the greatness of my nature, eternal deity, so that it could satisfy for the whole human race: human nature had to undergo the punishment and that the divine nature united with this human nature accepted the Sacrifice that my son offered me to me, to destroy death and make your life. Thus grandeur has humbled itself to the earth of your humanity: by uniting with her, God built a bridge and restored the road. Why this way? So that, in truth, man comes to rejoice with angelic nature. But, to get life, it would not be enough that my son has become the bridge, if you, you do not pass by this bridge.
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