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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Catherine of Siena
DESCRIPTION:THE TRUE WORKERS \nFrom “The Dialogues” of St Catherine of Siena2 \n◊◊◊ \nDo you know what course I follow\, once my servants have completely \ngiven themselves to the teaching of the Gentle loving Word? I prune them\, so \nthat they will bear much fruit – cultivated fruit\, not wild. Just as the gardener \nprunes the branch that is joined to the vine so that it yield more and better wine\, \nbut cuts off and throws into the fire the branch that is barren\, so do I the true \ngardener act. When my servants remain united to me I prune them with great \nsuffering so that they will bear more and better fruit\, and virtue will be proved \nin them. But those who bear no fruit are cut off and thrown into the fire. \nThese are the true workers. They till their souls well\, uprooting every \nselfish love\, cultivating the soil of their love in me. They feed and tend the \ngrowth of the seed of grace that they have received in holy baptism. And as they \ntill their own vineyards\, so they till their neighbor’s as well\, for they cannot do \nthe one without the other. You already know that every evil as well as every good \nis done by means of your neighbors. \nYou\, then\, are my workers. You have come from me\, the supreme eternal \ngardener\, and I have engrafted you onto the vine by making myself one with \nyou. Keep in mind that each of you has your own vineyard. But everyone is \njoined to your neighbor’s vineyards without any dividing lines. They are so \njoined together\, in fact\, that you cannot do good or evil for yourself without \ndoing the same for your neighbors. \nAll of you together make up one common vineyard\, the whole Christian \nassembly\, and you are all united in the vineyard of the mystic body of holy \nChurch from which you draw your life. In this vineyard is planted the vine\, \nwhich is my only-begotten Son\, into whom you must be engrafted. Unless you \nare engrafted into him you are rebels against holy Church\, like members that \nare cut off from the body and rot. \nIt is true that while you have time you can get yourselves out of the stench \nof sin through true repentance and recourse to my ministers. They are the \nworkers who have the keys to the wine cellar\, that is\, the blood poured forth \nfrom this vine. (And this blood is so perfect in itself that it cannot be deprived \nof its benefits through any fault in the minister.) \nIt is charity that binds you to true humility – the humility that is found in \nknowing yourself and me. See\, then\, that it is as workers that I have sent you \nall. And now I am calling you again\, because the world is failing fast. The thorns \nhave so multiplied and choked the seed so badly that it will produce no fruit of \ngrace at all. I want you\, therefore\, to be true workers. With deep concern help \nto till the souls in the mystic body of holy Church. I am calling you to do this \nbecause I want to be merciful to the world as you have so earnestly begged me. \n  \n2 Catherine of Siena – The Dialogue – The Classics of Western Spirituality – Paulist Press – New York – 1980 – pg \n24.5 \n  \n 
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