Dignity - St. Catherine of Siena. God the Eternal Father speaking:
'Open your mind's eye and look within Me, and you will see the dignity and beauty of My reasoning creature. But beyond the beauty I have given the soul by creating her in My image and likeness, look at those who are clothed in the wedding garment of charity, adorned with many true virtues: They are united with Me through love. So I say, if you should ask Me who they are, I would answer," said the gentle loving Word, "that they are another Me; for they have lost and drowned their own will and have clothed themselves and united themselves and conformed themselves with Mine.'
'There are as many different death- dealing fruits on these trees of death as there are sins. Some are food for beasts: These are people who live indecently, using their bodies and minds like pigs rolling in the mud, for that is how they roll about in the mud of lust. O brutish souls! What have you done with your dignity? You who were created kin to the Angels have made ugly beasts of yourselves!'
'O blind humanity, to have so lost sight of your dignity! You who were so great have become so small! You who were in command have sold yourselves into servitude to the vilest power there is, for you have become the servants and slaves of sin. Yes, you have become a nothing, since you become like what you serve, and sin is nothingness. It has taken life from you and given you death in its place.'
'This is beyond the love that I have shown in general to all My creatures by creating you in My image and likeness and recreating all of you in grace through My only-begotten Son's Blood. You attained such excellence because of the union I affected between My Godhead and human nature that your excellence and dignity is greater than that of the Angels. For it was your nature I assumed not that of the Angels. So, as I told you, I, God, became a Man and humanity became God through the union of My divine nature with your human nature.'
About the sinful priests and their punishment:
'O wretches! Stuck in such baseness because of their sins when I had established them in such dignity! They flee from the choir as if it were poison, or if they are there, they cry out with their voices, but their hearts are far from Me. It has become habitual for them to approach the table of the altar without any preparation, as if they were going to any ordinary table.'
'Who are those who are clothed and fattened on what belongs to the Church? You and the other devils with you, and your beasts, the great horses you keep not because you need them but for your perverse pleasure- whereas you should have them only as you need them and not for pleasure. Such pleasures are for worldly people. Your pleasures ought to be with the poor and in visiting the sick, assisting them in their spiritual and material needs. For no other reason have I made you My minister and given you such dignity. It is because you have made a filthy beast of yourself that you find such pleasure in these beasts of yours. You do not see, for if you did see the punishments that will be yours unless you change your ways, you would not behave as you do.'
Juan Bautista Maíno - Santa Catalina de Siena (Saint Catherine of Siena):
Fernandez and Co. thinks our dignity is infinite. Liar! If it were so there wouldn't be need for God to visit the shadows of the Earth and make satisfaction for our first failure. God the Father to St. Catherine: "That sin /original sin/ demanded infinite satisfaction. In order to make satisfaction to Me (because I am infinite), and for past, present, and future humanity, human nature, which had …More
Fernandez and Co. thinks our dignity is infinite. Liar! If it were so there wouldn't be need for God to visit the shadows of the Earth and make satisfaction for our first failure. God the Father to St. Catherine: "That sin /original sin/ demanded infinite satisfaction. In order to make satisfaction to Me (because I am infinite), and for past, present, and future humanity, human nature, which had sinned and was finite had to be united with something infinite."
