Tuesday, August 20 : Saint Catherine of Siena

[Sainte Catherine heard God tell her:] Alas! My very dear daughter, therefore see what shame for these men so miserably eager for the goods of this world, and who do not even follow the indications of natural light, for the acquisition of supreme and eternal good! They do not even do what these philosophers did, out of love of science. As soon as they understood that wealth was an obstacle to them, they stripped it, and these want to make a God of their wealth, no more no less! Is it not obvious that they have more pain of the loss of these temporal goods than to lose myself, Me, the supreme good, the eternal richness. To look closely, you will discover that it is in this disorderly desire, in this deregulated will to become rich, that is the source of all evils. (…) In the Holy Gospel, my truth told you that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter eternal life! These rich are those who, by a deregulated attachment for the goods of this world, have or covet wealth. Many people are in reality, by their disorderly attachment, posess the whole world by their will, if they could, to make themselves masters. Impossible for them to go through the door which is narrow and low. Unless they throw their off this weight, remove their hearts from the love of this world, and that they do not duck their heads. It is through this door that must be passed: there is no other that gives access to life. There is a large door; But it ileads to eternal damnation! And it is through her that these blind people will pass, without seeing the ruin to which they are engaged.

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