This is the crowning spiritual work of the only woman other than Teresa of Avila to be granted the title of Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. This volume was simply called “my book” by the fourteenth-century Italian saint. The aim of her book (one of the first books to see print in Spain, Germany, Italy, and England), says Dr. Noffke in her Foreword, was “the instruction and encouragement of all those whose spiritual welfare was her concern.” Catherine was “a mystic whose plunge into God plunged her deep into the affairs of society, Church and the souls who came under her influence.” Professor Noffke goes on to call The Dialogue “a great tapestry to which Catherine adds stitch upon stitch until she is satisfied that she has communicated all she can of what she has learned of the way of God.” In this, the sixth centenary of the great Dominican’s death, we live in a time so badly in need of her sense of institutional reform as flowing from Divine truth, love and charity. Dr. Noffke says: “In the opening pages of The Dialogue Catherine presents a series of questions or petitions to God the Father each of which receives a response and amplification. There is the magnificent symbolic portrayal of Christ as the bridge. There are specific discussions of discernment, tears (true and false spiritual emotion), truth, the sacramental heart (‘mystic body’) of the Church, divine providence, obedience…. It is not so much a treatise to be read as it is a conversation to be entered into with earnest leisure and leisurely earnest.”
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Vatican II: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church See Chapter V: The call of the whole Church to holiness Bibliographies by Rev. William Harmless, SJ, of Creighton ,Archive includes reference, fiction, hymnody, World Wide Study Bible, Early Church Fathers series. CD containing most of the archive available for purchase.,Early life . Catherine was born in Genoa in 1447, the last of five children. Catherine’s parents were Jacopo Fieschi and Francesca di Negro, both of illustrious ,Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias (Classics of Western Spirituality) [Hildegard of Bingen, Mother Columba Hart, Jane Bishop, Caroline Walker Bynum, Barbara Newman] on ,St. Anthony Messenger April 2006 Online Edition article on Sister Nancy Murray as St. Catherine of Siena.,the dialogue of the seraphic virgin catherine of siena dictated by her, while in a state of ecstasy, to her secretaries, and completed in the year of ,Discerning Hearts is an outstanding resource for those searching for a deeper spirituality. It contains so many authors and speakers for enriching our spirituality.,St Catherine (1347 -1380) was one of the great Catholic saints. She was said to have taken a sincere and profound interest in every body whom she met.,Brief hagiography of this Doctor of the Church, and patron saint of Italy.,Physical travel was not the only way in which Catherine made her views known. From 1375 onwards, she began dictating letters to various scribes. These letters were
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- Sales Rank: #30633 in Books
- Published on: 1980-04
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- Dimensions: 1.14″ h x
6.03″ w x
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1.24 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 398 pages
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Brief hagiography of this Doctor of the Church, and patron saint of Italy.
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the dialogue of the seraphic virgin catherine of siena dictated by her, while in a state of ecstasy, to her secretaries, and completed in the year of
St. Catherine of Siena: A Feisty Role for Sister Nancy
St. Anthony Messenger April 2006 Online Edition article on Sister Nancy Murray as St. Catherine of Siena.
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Archive includes reference, fiction, hymnody, World Wide Study Bible, Early Church Fathers series. CD containing most of the archive available for purchase.
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Vatican II: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church See Chapter V: The call of the whole Church to holiness Bibliographies by Rev. William Harmless, SJ, of Creighton
- Sales Rank: #30633 in Books
- Published on: 1980-04
- Original language:
Italian
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.14″ h x
6.03″ w x
9.02″ l,
1.24 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 398 pages
This is the crowning spiritual work of the only woman other than Teresa of Avila to be granted the title of Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. This volume was simply called “my book” by the fourteenth-century Italian saint. The aim of her book (one of the first books to see print in Spain, Germany, Italy, and England), says Dr. Noffke in her Foreword, was “the instruction and encouragement of all those whose spiritual welfare was her concern.” Catherine was “a mystic whose plunge into God plunged her deep into the affairs of society, Church and the souls who came under her influence.” Professor Noffke goes on to call The Dialogue “a great tapestry to which Catherine adds stitch upon stitch until she is satisfied that she has communicated all she can of what she has learned of the way of God.” In this, the sixth centenary of the great Dominican’s death, we live in a time so badly in need of her sense of institutional reform as flowing from Divine truth, love and charity. Dr. Noffke says: “In the opening pages of The Dialogue Catherine presents a series of questions or petitions to God the Father each of which receives a response and amplification. There is the magnificent symbolic portrayal of Christ as the bridge. There are specific discussions of discernment, tears (true and false spiritual emotion), truth, the sacramental heart (‘mystic body’) of the Church, divine providence, obedience…. It is not so much a treatise to be read as it is a conversation to be entered into with earnest leisure and leisurely earnest.”
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Most Inspirational book aside from the Bible
By Glutton for books
I highly recommend this book to any person seeking to be inspired to improve their lives, not through fear of chatisement, but due to being motivated by love. This is the first book that I have ever read, where I wanted to write the author, or in this case it would be the interpretor, and to thank her for the wisdom and insight that her work gave me. Just reflecting on the book gives me a warm feeling.Catherine of Siena was a mystic who claimed to receive advice from God, and who also worked miracles in her time. This book relates the advice in an incredibly accessiblt tone. She writes about issues related to every aspect of life, our association with one another, and how to please God. Her advice is helpful to people from all walks of life, the lay person and religious as well.Central to her message is the great love that God has for us all. That God loved us before we knew and loved Him, and the onyl way to give likewise such love to strangers who know not and possibly will not love us. She writes too about one of the greatest ways that we can offend God is by not believing that he has sufficient mercy to forgive us our sins, if we are contrite and ask him for forgiveness, because this belief contradicts the notion that God’s mercy and love for us is great. She writes that sin is horrible becuase it ofends God’s goodness, and it harms our neighbor.She cites many biblical sources that reflect the advice that she has recieved. It seems cliche to hail a book as life-changing but this book greatly transformed me and my relationship with God for the better. It is an inspiring and uplifting read, and may be particularly useful to those experiencing spiritual dryness.
37 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
Austere and Awesome
By Billyjack D’Urberville
This is one of the most important volumes in the Classics of Western Spirituality series. More is commonly known of the life of this young saint than her writings; she is the patron of many American parishes. Her example and directions to high churchmen were an important corrective in a pivotal moment of Church history. But one feels that the importance of her writings is only now becoming clear. Few are familiar enough with them.Be warned: this twenty-something seer was austere. The transcriptions of her locutions, done by her confreres, are not prettied up, as they should not be. They convey a plain authenticity. Sentences and paragraphs run on and are often difficult to untangle. It can be very slow going; any of these dialogues can make for a wearying sitting. And the claim is absolute: God talking directly to Catherine in her ecstatic state, she as the mere transmitter, the confreres getting it down as best they can.Of all the mysteries explicated here, however, the pinnacle and the unique aspect is the discussion of the mechanism of the Mystical Body of Christ. While a key and unique aspect of Catholicism that was there from the beginning, only in century 20 was it beginning to be more fully explicated by the likes of Bishop Sheen and Pius 12. The closest thing in Protestantism to it is the concept of Christian fellowship, but the Mystical Body is both more active and more exact than that. Many, including surprisingly Catholics, will reject this teaching in the radical and awesome form stated here. Of course, the writings and visions of saints are not matters of faith, except to the extent they track definitive dogmatic statements. But one would be challenged to explain how an untutored youth outside any formal religious house could have uttered a theology of this loftiness, depth, and sophistication. One thing is guaranteed: the Mystical Body theology set out in Catherine’s locutions will never leave you — the Divine Plan working itself out through the multiplicity of human gifts, randomly distributed, by a God who is most pleased when individual faithful share and exchange them toward Divine ends.Many persons in and out of the Church are seeking spiritual experience of one sort or another, as if pinching themselves to know that they are real. They would be better off reading Dialogues nos. 6, 7, and 8, and meditating on them for a year to the exclusion of anything else.
39 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Loving Others
By catherine guelph
This book has been important to me. From it, I learned that loving the LORD, my GOD, is manifested by the love which I exercise in the intercourse with my neighbour. This was already a well-known idea by the time of Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). It is articulated in the first epistle, chapter 4, from John. Catherine puts this virtue into action in her role as a diplomat for Pope Gregory XI. She was a determined woman of great spiritual fortitude, and is an inspiration to me. Catherine joins the acts of loving God with loving our neighbour. She does this by setting the will to love our neighbor as an attribute of the love which we have for God. Her argument to support this premise is profoundly logical. In brief, we cannot love God as God loves us because she loved us before we loved her. We manifest the will of God by loving our neighbor, even before our neighbour loves us. Since this goes against our natural instincts as humans, it must be the love of God which is at work. In this way, we are loving God as he loves us, and in this way, his love is glorified. In Catherine’s own words, as she relates a conversation she received, “And I, [the LORD, our GOD,] would have thee know that just as every imperfection and perfection is acquired from Me, so is it manifested by means of the neighbour…I require that you should love Me with the same love with which I love you. This indeed you cannot do, because I loved you without being loved…Therefore to Me, in person you cannot repay the love which I require of you and I have placed you in the midst of your fellows, that you may do to them that which you cannot do to Me, that is to say, that you may love your neighbour of free grace, without expecting any return from him, and what you do to him, I count as done to Me, which My Truth [the Christ, Jesus] showed forth when He said to Paul, My persecutor == Saul, Saul, why persecutes thou Me?”This logic appeals to me, and has given me strength in my spiritual relationship. It is not easy to love the LORD, and even more difficult, sometimes, to love those we see everyday. Catherine of Siena has provided me with some tools that help me to make that happen. If you are interested in a deeper spiritual relationship, in the spiritual thoughts of a politically powerful woman, or in mysticism as it was practiced in 14th century Italy, this book will be interesting to you.
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