Catherine of Siena: We were enclosed (from Prayer 20)

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We were enclosed (from Prayer 20)

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by Catherine of Siena
(1347 - 1380) Timeline

English version by
Suzanne Noffke, O.P.

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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Themes

Garden

Heart

Lotus

Rose

Spring Blossom

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