Is it possible to fall in love with someone through letters?
There are so many ways of communicating and I find "written words" best of the best in communicating. Since God the Father gave us His Son, would we expect nothing less but goodness, Love and mercy from Him.
The Bible is a love story between a child and a Father with every word a letter telling us how much we are loved. Then, how can we show such ingratitude and hard heartedness?
Taking a peek at the letters from St Catherine of Siena, we come to know how much she loved God. She totally belonged to Him. She shows us how to consecrate our wills, thoughts, actions and sufferings to Him. In her letters she taught how to pray for others, evangelize and live in Him.
Catherine Benincasa or St Catherine of Siena is a mystic and a Doctor of the Church. She was a genius who learned just 3 years before her death to write. Her letters were dictated and transcribed by her helpers.
Sometimes, her letters had too many words, were confusing or metaphors were not correctly used. You feel the mourning over lost souls, her words pleading with others to give up the sinful life. The vitality of her messages draw us closer to her but eventually to God. We not only see how she deals with other souls but God's dealings with her.
Whether writing to Popes, prisoners, soldiers, nuns or priests, there was conviction, gentleness and tactfulness when she wrote. Her 'love for souls' was understanding, kind and tender, yet, could be austere, rebuking and candid. She knew what to say and to whom-at times frank and critical. Always humble, she was "the servant and slave of the servants of Jesus Christ." Many times in her letters she identified herself with the person to whom she wrote.
As we learn about a great saint, mystic, reformer, political activist, Dominican tertiary and Doctor of the Church, remember her lesson....she saw in human beings not their achievements, but their possibilities. She filled the soul with glowing vision of that holiness which to see is to long for.
Reference: The Letters of St Catherine of Siena, translated and edited with introduction by Vida D Scudder, 1905, edited by Darrell Wright, 2016.
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