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Little children, you are from God … [and] the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

—1 John 4:4 (NRSV)

St. Catherine of Siena continues her reflection on preparing for the Mass, talking about herself in the third person: “When the hour of Mass arrived in the morning—it was the feast day of Mary—she anxiously sought her usual place. From a deep knowledge of herself and with a feeling of holy justice, she was ashamed of her own imperfection, for it seemed to be the cause of all the world’s evils. In this knowledge, she cleansed the stains covering her guilty soul, saying, ‘Eternal Father, I accuse myself before You, so that You may punish me for my sins in this life. Since my sins cause my neighbor to suffer, I beg You, in Your mercy, to punish me for them.’”

You alone are the source of my strength, my joy, my justice.