Below you will find a selection of quotations.   Each week of Lent we invite you to select and reflect on one of the quotations. Thomas Aquinas (13th cent.) Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. Meister Eckhart (13th cent.) We should understand love from the simile of the fire and we should understand the Holy Spirit from the simile of the wind with respect to the activity of the Holy Spirit in the soul. The greater love there is in the soul and the more strongly the Holy Spirit blows, all the more perfect is the fire. In Matthew Fox, Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart’s Creation Spirituality in New Translation, 373. Catherine of Siena (14th cent.) Eternal goodness, you want me to gaze into you and see that you love me, to see that you love me gratuitously, so that I may love everyone with the very same love.   In Mary O’Driscoll, Catherine of Siena: Passion for the Truth, Compassion for Humanity: Selected Writings, 71. Catherine of Siena (14th cent.) Self-knowledge is the bedrock on which Catherine builds her theology and spirituality…. To her, this knowledge of self and God is not simply the result of an intellectual journey; it is rather the kind of knowledge that is fed through the loving affection of an abiding friendship. In Shelley
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