For 24 years I was an Anglican minister in Hong Kong. I have now returned to the UK while, hopefully, maintaining my links with Hong Kong. I want on this site to share some thoughts about God and what it means to believe in and be committed to him today. I am bold enough to think that I have something to share, but not so bold to claim any originality. I am hopeful that some may find some of my thoughts of some interest.
Why the Fire of Love?
The title is inspired by the life and writing of St Catherine of Siena whose patronage I write under. St Catherine wrote:
O eternal God, light surpassing all other light because all light comes forth from you! O fire surpassing every fire because you alone are the fire that burns without consuming! You consume whatever sin and selfishness you find in the soul. Yet your consuming does not distress the soul but fattens her with insatiable love, for though you satisfy her she is never sated but longs for you constantly. The more she possesses you the more she seeks you, and the more she seeks and desires you the more she finds and enjoys you, high eternal fire, abyss of charity!
Catherine of Siena, Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue, ed. Richard J. Payne, trans. Suzanne Noffke, The Classics of Western Spirituality (New York; Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1980), 273.
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