So amazed is Catherine of Siena at the endless mercy of God
that she calls God “crazy.” In her Dialogues she writes, “O eternal
beauty! O eternal goodness, O eternal mercy! O crazy lover! You have need of
your creature? It seems so to me, for you act as if you could not live without
her. Why are you so crazy? Because you have fallen in love with what you have
made! You are pleased and delighted over her, as if you were drunk with desire
for her salvation. She runs away from you and you go looking for her. She
strays and you draw closer to her.”
Perhaps very often we foolishly run in the opposite
direction; let us once again confess our own craziness, and beg God’s mercy.
