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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Sacred Heart of Jesus
DESCRIPTION:A BAPTISM OF BLOOD AND WATER \nFrom a commentary by St Catherine of Siena6 \n◊◊◊ \n“Why\, gentle spotless lamb\, since you were dead when your side was \nopened\, did you want your heart to be pierced and parted?” He answered\, \n“there were plenty of reasons\, but I shall tell you one of the chief. My longing \nfor humanity was infinite\, but the actual deed of bearing pain and torment was \nfinite and could never show all the love I had. This is why I wanted you to see \nmy inmost heart\, so that you would see that I loved you more than finite \nsuffering could show.” \n“By shedding both blood and water I showed you the holy baptism of \nwater that you receive through the power of my blood. But I was also showing \nyou the baptism of blood\, and this in two ways. The first touches those who are \nbaptized in their own blood poured out for me. Though they could not have the \nother baptism\, their own blood has power because of mine. Others are baptized \nin fire when they lovingly desire baptism but cannot have it. Nor is there any \nbaptism of fire without blood\, for blood has been fused with the fire of divine \ncharity\, because it was shed for love. \n“There is a second way the soul receives this baptism of blood\, figuratively \nspeaking. This my divine charity provided because I know how people sin \nbecause of weakness. Not that weakness or anything else can force them to sin \nif they do not want to\, but being weak they do fall into deadly sin and lose the \ngrace they had drawn from the power of the blood in holy baptism. So my divine \ncharity had to leave them an ongoing baptism of blood accessible by heartfelt \ncontrition and a holy confession as soon as they can confess to my ministers \nwho hold the key to the blood. This blood the priest pours over the soul in \nabsolution. \nSo you see\, this baptism is ongoing\, and the soul ought to be baptized in \nit right up to the end\, in the way I have told you. In this baptism you experience \nthat though my act of suffering on the cross was finite\, the fruit of that suffering \nwhich you have received through me is infinite. This is because of the infinite \ndivine nature joined with finite human nature. It was this human nature in \nwhich I was clothed that suffered in me\, the Word. But because the two natures \nare fused with each other\, the eternal Divinity took to itself the suffering I bore \nwith such burning love. \nFor this reason what I did can be called infinite. Not that either the actual \nbodily suffering or the pain of my longing to accomplish your redemption was \ninfinite\, for all of that ended on the cross when my soul left my body. But the \nfruit was infinite that came from my suffering and from my desire for your \nsalvation\, and therefore you receive it without limit. Had it not been infinite\, \nthe whole of humankind\, past\, present and to come\, would not have been \nrestored. Nor could those who sin get up again if this baptism of blood (that is\, \nthe fruit of the blood) had not been given to you without limit. \nI showed you this in the opening up of my side. There you find my heart’s \nsecret and it shows you\, more than any finite suffering could\, how I love you.” \n  \n6 Journey with the Fathers: Commentaries on the Sunday Gospels – Year B. New \nYork: New City Press\, 1999. 70-71.13 \n  \n 
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