“we can effect no work of grace in ourselves, nor for our neighbour, without charity; charity is that sweet and holy bond which binds the soul with her Creator; it bound God in man and man in God. This inestimable charity kept God and Man fastened and nailed upon the wood of the most holy Cross.”St. Catherine of Siena, Letters, Letter 1,   (Cited by Edmund Gardner in “Saint Catherine of Siena, A Study in the Religion, Literature, and History of the Fourteenth Century in Italy.”)