whose day we celebrate today, is one of my favourite people... but according to blogging tradition, I'm going to recycle last years post, since I can't see the point of saying it all again!
To encourage you to click back in time, though, here is my concluding paragraph:
We have so much to learn from people like Catherine. It is so easy to forget that before our own lifetimes, before the wars and rumours of wars of the last century, before the Reformation even, women and men were trying to follow Christ, and encountering all of the same joys and pains we run into ourselves. We so deeply need to listen to our sisters and brothers of the past, and give up flitting distractedly between the end of the New Testament and the beginning of the 20th century!
And the collect for today from The Daily Office SSF:
God of compassion
who gave your servant Catherine of Siena
a wondrous love of the passion of Christ:
grant that your people
may be united to him in his majesty
and rejoice forever in the revelation of his glory;
who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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