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SUMMARY:St. Catherine of Alexandria
DESCRIPTION:ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA\nFrom the writing of St Mechthild of Hackeborn7\n◊◊◊\nAs the Soul wondered what praise she should offer God to honor his saints\,\nhe told her\, “Praise me because I am the crown of all saints.” She immediately\nbegan to praise and bless the most blessed\, ever-venerable Trinity as best she\ncould because he deigned to be the crown and marvelous dignity of the saints –\nand by a singular privilege\, he is the golden crown of all virgins. At once she saw\nthat the glorious Virgin and all the saints were wearing crowns of inconceivable\nbeauty. No words could express their glory… Now it is true that the beauty and\nglory of all the saints is perfected by the blood of Christ\, his innocence\, and his\nother virtues; and there is a tender intimacy and delight between the Lord and\nevery soul. Yet\, by a special privilege\, virgins enjoy God with a more delightful\nintimacy\, a greater pleasure\, and a sweeter taste because he is their bridegroom… \nOn the Feast of the illustrious virgin Catherine\, she appeared to the Soul in\na robe all patterned with golden wheels. At the top were two golden hands that\ntogether held up the garment\, symbolizing the blissful\, undivided union of God\nwith her soul. Christ’s handmaid reverently greeted her with the antiphon\nHail\, beautiful virgin. After this she asked\, “Tell me\, I pray\, what is meant by that\nverse we sing to you\, whose face and beauty the Lord desired? What is that face of\nyours that the Lord desired?” \n“My face is the image of the venerable Trinity\, which the Lord desired in me\nbecause I had never corrupted it with serious sins. My beauty is that exceptional\nbeauty that Christ has given his faithful\, inexpressibly beautifying them with the\ncolor of his blood. And you should know that every time a person receives\ncommunion\, that beauty is renewed and increased. For example\, someone who\nreceives communion even once doubles the beauty in her soul. But if a person\ncommunicates a hundred or a thousand times\, she increases the beauty in her soul\na hundred or a thousandfold.” \nThen the virgin Mechthild prayed to St. Catherine for someone who was\ndevoted to her. She replied\, “Tell her to recite for me the… antiphon ‘Come my\nbeloved\, come and enter the chamber of your Bridegroom.’… Let her remind me of\nthe joy I had when Christ the King\, my bridegroom\, called me with those words.\nFor when that voice came to my ears\, my heart was set ablaze with so much love\nand I was dissolved in such unspeakable joy that all the horror of death was\nreduced to nothing.” \n7 Mechthild of Hackeborn. The Book of Special Grace. Trans. Barbara Newman. New York: Paulist Press\, 2017. 111-113.
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