O incomprehensible love! Whom do you call: my daughter?
I say to you: Eternal Father!
I earnestly ask you, most merciful God,
that I may be a part of the fire of Your love for all Your servants.
Your truth has said: “Seek and you will find, ask and it will be given to you, knock and it will be opened to you.”
I knock at the door of Your truth, I seek,
I call before Your majesty,
I ask for Your mercy for the whole world and especially for Your holy Church.
(Catherine of Siena /1347–1380/, prayers 26)
