[The Father says,] I could easily have created men possessed of all that they should need both for body and soul, but I wish that one should have need of the other, and that they should be My ministers to administer the graces and the gifts that they have each received from Me.
Saint Catherine of Siena
Being Knit into One Body
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3 responses to “Being Knit into One Body”
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That the Father tells St. Catherine of Sienna in effect that we are made interdependent I wonder if this isn’t also a small look into the Mystery of the Incarnation and how intimately God calls each of us to be a part of His plan, worked out once for all in Jesus, but, as iwere fillied in by each of us? The Mystery of God’s Love is so much bigger than anything I can ask or imagine and yet the beauty is we still get to wonder about it and ask such questions. Thanks for this beautiful post from our dear doctor and sister in Christ, Catherine!
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Yes!
What strikes me especially in this one is that it’s said that it would have been “easy” to make us more self-sufficient. Easy! Thus, obviously, very obviously, the present “interdependence” is so much better. =)
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That the Father tells St. Catherine of Sienna, in effect, that we are made interdependent, is exciting! I wonder if this isn’t also a small look into the Mystery of the Incarnation and how intimately God calls each of us to be a part of His plan, worked out once for all in Jesus, but, as it were, fillied in by each of us? The Mystery of God’s Love is so much bigger than anything I can ask or imagine and yet the beauty is we still get to “wonder” about it and ask such questions. Thanks for this beautiful post from our dear doctor and sister in Christ, Catherine!
Contemplative in the Mud 