“He joyously shouts, ‘It is finished!’ [John 19:30]. Yes, those seem to be sorrowful words, but
they were words of joy to that soul aflame and consumed in the fire of divine charity, the soul of
the incarnate Word, God’s Son. It is as if the gentle Jesus wanted to say, ‘I have completely
fulfilled what was written of me. Fulfilled too is my painful desire to redeem the human race. I
am happy, exultant, that I have finished this suffering.’”
(taken from The Letters of St. Catherine of Siena, vol. 1)