{"id":34571,"date":"2017-04-29T07:06:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T11:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34571"},"modified":"2017-04-30T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T11:59:39","slug":"st-catherine-of-siena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/st-catherine-of-siena\/","title":{"rendered":"St Catherine of Siena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Catherine-of-Siena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34572 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Catherine-of-Siena-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Catherine-of-Siena-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Catherine-of-Siena.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her. This she does because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">knowledge must precede love<\/span>, and only when she has attained love, can she strive to follow and to clothe herself with the truth. But, in no way, does the creature rec<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">eive such a taste of the truth, or so brilliant a light therefrom, as by means of humble and continuous prayer, founded on knowledge of herself and of God; because prayer, exercising her in the above way, unites with God<strong> the soul that follows the footprints of Christ Crucified, and thus, by desire and affection, and union of love, makes her another Himself<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Catherine of Siena,\u00a0<em>The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena<\/em>,\u00a0p.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her. This she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/st-catherine-of-siena\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Catherine of Siena<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1714,2076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34575,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571\/revisions\/34575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}