{"product_id":"the-dialogue-christ-the-bridge","title":"The Dialogue: Christ the Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSt. Catherine of Siena's Dialogue, framed as a fourteen-day retreat on Christ the Bridge.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder this book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=2Z2ngUhxm7QCYvGaE0DR0r1P77SxYHvJ26sfcb4C9IW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePaperback →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=SQk5Dww5fdD6q3fMAGa5I8FDPAMsi5jFZMGM2nbq5Pd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eHardcover →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unlettered laywoman who could barely write her name left the Church one of its greatest books. St. Catherine of Siena, mystic, stigmatic, nurse of the plague-stricken, and the fearless woman who brought the papacy home from Avignon, dictated \u003cem\u003eIl Dialogo\u003c\/em\u003e in ecstasy: a conversation in which the soul asks, and God the Father answers, unfolding a whole theology of the spiritual life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition walks that book's central image over fourteen days, in the very words she heard, in the beloved public-domain translation of Algar Thorold: Christ the Bridge, thrown across the flood of this dark life, the one road home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a guided retreat, not a reprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFourteen meditations: Holy Desire, the Cell of Self-Knowledge, \"You Are She Who Is Not,\" Christ the Bridge, the Three Steps, the Blood, the Doctrine of Tears, the Tree of Charity, Providence, Obedience, and the Deep Sea of the Trinity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer life, and the words to carry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA treasury of her own prayers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull-color plates: Giovanni di Paolo's Life of St. Catherine (dictating the Dialogue, the Mystic Marriage, the Stigmatization), with Vanni, Beccafumi, Tiepolo, and Velázquez, and her original cover portrait\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA journaling section, with pages for your own prayer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll doctrinal content follows the constant teaching of the Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church, translated by Algar Thorold (1907, from the Italian)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScripture from the Douay-Rheims Bible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, The Devotional Series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 100 pages, printed in full color\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCome, and cross the flood on the one Bridge, and be drawn, with her, into the deep Sea of God.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sanctified Souls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52927727042841,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/4616\/0921\/files\/il-dialogo-front.jpg?v=1785624397","url":"https:\/\/sanctifiedsouls.com\/products\/the-dialogue-christ-the-bridge","provider":"Sanctified Souls","version":"1.0","type":"link"}