On the feast of the maiden of Siena (this year, not liturgically commemorated - Easter Octave), let us pray for the Holy Father.
And do not look at the ignorance and pride of your little children; but with the enticement of your love and of your benignity, granting them that sweet discipline and benign reprehension which may please your Holiness, render peace to us, your miserable children who have offended you.
I tell you, o sweet Christ on earth, from Christ in heaven, that, doing thus, that is, without quarrel and uproar, they will all see with pain the offense they have done, and will place their heads in their hands.
Saint Catherine of Siena
Letter CXCVI to Gregory XI
Letter CXCVI to Gregory XI
