O Eternal God! O Eternal Trinity!

Through the union of your divine nature you have made so precious

    the blood of your only begotten Son!

O eternal Trinity, you are as deep a mystery as the sea,

    in whom the more I seek, the more I find;

    and the more I find, the more I seek.

For even immersed in the depths of you,

    my soul is never satisfied, always famished and hungering for you,

    eternal Trinity, wishing and desiring to see you, the true light.

 

O eternal Trinity, with the light of understanding

    I have tasted and seen the depths of your mystery

                         and the beauty of your creation.

In seeing myself in you, I have seen that I will become like you.

 

O eternal Father, from your power and your wisdom

    clearly you have given me a share of that wisdom

    which belongs to your only begotten Son.

And truly the Holy Spirit,

    who proceeds from You, Father and Son,

    has given to me the desire to love You.

 

Catherine of Siena, 1347 – 1380, Italian Dominican mystic

Encyclopedia of Prayer and Praise, freely modified

 

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Hear me as I pray, O Lord.
    Be merciful and answer me!
My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.”
    And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.”