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About Catherine of Siena

Timeline (1347 - 1380)

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English version by
Suzanne Noffke, O.P.

We were enclosed, (from Prayer 20)

Themes

Garden

Heart

Lotus

Rose

Spring Blossom

Recommended Books

	Catherine of Siena : (Outstanding Christian Thinkers), by Giuliana Cavallini
	Catherine of Siena - Passion for the Truth, Compassion for Humanity: Selected Spiritual Writings, by Catherine of Siena / Edited by Mary O'Driscoll
	Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue: (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Catherine of Siena / Edited by Suzanne Noffke
	A Life of Total Prayer: Selected Writings of Catherine of Siena, by K Beasley Topliffe
	Little Talks with God: (Christian Classics), by Catherine of Siena

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We were enclosed,
O eternal Father,
within the garden of your breast.
You drew us out of your holy mind
like a flower
petaled with our soul's three powers,
and into each power
you put the whole plant,
so that they might bear fruit in your garden,
might come back to you
with the fruit you gave them.
And you would come back to the soul,
to fill her with your blessedness.
There the soul dwells --
like the fish in the sea
and the sea in the fish.

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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