We are in Sienna today. Too Hot and overrun by tourists for my liking. The grey toasty, eyeless face of this incorruptible saint is a bit much for me to take in. Old carved up flesh seems more of a ghoulish spectacle than a way to honor this woman or draw us into the beauty of her holiness. I turn to my smart phone to pull up some of here famous sayings:
“You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love”.
“He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely”.
“All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, I am the way”.
“God is closer to us than water is to a fish”.
June 19, 2017