Happy Feast of St. Catherine of Siena!

(My moment of prayer before the body of St. Catherine of Siena in Rome)

"If anyone should earnestly desire to know what was the secret of this woman's power, the answer is: her humility. Humility, not pride, can scale the battlements of the city of God. Humility raises the saints high, and seats them on the thrones left vacant by the fallen cherubim. Humility is strength: she is the mother of greatness."

~ from the chapter on St. Catherine of Siena in Maidens of Hallowed Names, 

copyrighted by Charles Piccirillo in 1881.