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Title: Catherine of Siena : The Dialogue (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Sr. Susan Noffke, Suzanne Noffke, Giuliana Cavallini, Catherine ISBN: 0-8091-2233-2 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Loving Others
Comment: This book has been important to me. From it, I learned that loving the LORD, my GOD, is manifested by the love which I exercise in the intercourse with my neighbour. This was already a well-known idea by the time of Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). It is articulated in the first epistle, chapter 4, from John. Catherine puts this virtue into action in her role as a diplomat for Pope Gregory XI. She was a determined woman of great spiritual fortitude, and is an inspiration to me. Catherine joins the acts of loving God with loving our neighbour. She does this by setting the will to love our neighbor as an attribute of the love which we have for God. Her argument to support this premise is profoundly logical. In brief, we cannot love God as God loves us because she loved us before we loved her. We manifest the will of God by loving our neighbor, even before our neighbour loves us. Since this goes against our natural instincts as humans, it must be the love of God which is at work. In this way, we are loving God as he loves us, and in this way, his love is glorified. In Catherine's own words, as she relates a conversation she received, "And I, [the LORD, our GOD,] would have thee know that just as every imperfection and perfection is acquired from Me, so is it manifested by means of the neighbour...I require that you should love Me with the same love with which I love you. This indeed you cannot do, because I loved you without being loved...Therefore to Me, in person you cannot repay the love which I require of you and I have placed you in the midst of your fellows, that you may do to them that which you cannot do to Me, that is to say, that you may love your neighbour of free grace, without expecting any return from him, and what you do to him, I count as done to Me, which My Truth [the Christ, Jesus] showed forth when He said to Paul, My persecutor == Saul, Saul, why persecutes thou Me?"
This logic appeals to me, and has given me strength in my spiritual relationship. It is not easy to love the LORD, and even more difficult, sometimes, to love those we see everyday. Catherine of Siena has provided me with some tools that help me to make that happen. If you are interested in a deeper spiritual relationship, in the spiritual thoughts of a politically powerful woman, or in mysticism as it was practiced in 14th century Italy, this book will be interesting to you.
Rating: 2
Summary: Catherine's revelations for the church and individuals
Comment: Catherine of Siena would recieve revelations from God and enter ecstatic trances. In those transes she would have "dialogues" with God which her sisters recorded, thus the title. Catherine was used by the Pope to be peacemaker between warring cities and as such she was a Papal apologist, meeting with nobles and dignitaries throughout Europe, a different role for a woman of that time. As mystic she would dialogue with God about the church, the pope, priests and recieve counsel that are recorded in the "Dialogues". The prose is instructional, not exhortive in nature. It is not a book that one reads expecting to come away uplifted and enthused, rather you will recieve sound direction.
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Title: Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers ISBN: 0385036434 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 04 January, 1972 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Julian of Norwich Showings by Edmund Colledge, James Walsh, Jean LeClercq ISBN: 0809120917 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (The Classics of Western Spirituality) by Regis J. Armstrong, Ignatius C. Brady ISBN: 0809124467 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Catherine of Siena: Passion for the Truth Compassion for Humanity: Selected Spiritual Writings by Catherine, Mary O'Driscoll ISBN: 1565480589 Publisher: New City Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) by G. R. Evans, Ewert Cousins ISBN: 0809129175 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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