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John 15: 12-17 “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.'”
Today the Church celebrates one of the greatest women who ever lived on the face of the earth. Pray that you will get to know her. Hopefully she will become your friend starting today. You might even get a biography of her life and read it, and she will set your heart on fire with the love of God! This woman put today’s Gospel into practice almost perfectly. There are three basic ideas in this Gospel: obedience, friendship and love. Catherine of Siena had a deep friendship with Jesus Christ. Her heart was on fire with love for Christ. She was obedient to Christ and His Church at a time when many people were not, like our own times today. Shouldn’t we pray for these qualities? To obey Christ and His Church? To have a deep friendship with Christ? To love Christ? Let us ask Saint Catherine of Siena for this. Father Ed goes on to say that there is so much to be said about this woman! But he will give some ideas of the life and the greatness of this saint.
Dear Father,
Thank you for your wonderful homilies on St. Catherine of Sienna! I’m reading her life now and it’s just as you said . . . so inspirational! I also loved your video on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. That statue is beautiful and is exactly like the one our son used to have, that we got him for his First Holy Communion. He had picked it out of a catalogue and wanted it so badly. I miss that statue. Thank you for making yours available to see. It brought a lot of consolation to me, for several reasons.
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be your refuge and mine now and forever . . .
God bless you!