God the Father spoke to Catherine of Siena about blessed souls who, in their journey to God, had renounced their own will and desires even to the point of embracing their sufferings:
" As their will is not their own, but becomes one with Mine, they cannot desire anything other than what I desire. Though they desire to come and to be with Me, they are content to remain, if I desire them to remain, with their pain for the greater praise and glory of My name and the salvation of souls. In nothing are they in discord with My will. But they run their course with ecstatic desire, clothed in Christ crucified...In as much as they appear to be suffering, they are rejoicing , because the enduring of many tribulations is to them a relief in the desire which they have for death. For often the desire and the will to suffer pain mitigates the pain caused them by their desire to quit the body. These not only endure with patience as I told you they did, but they glory through My name in bearing much tribulation. In this they find pleasure . Not having it they suffer pain, fearing that I do not reward their well-doing , or that the sacrifice of their desires is not pleasing to Me. But when I permit them many tribulations, they rejoice, seeing themselves clothed with the suffering and shame of Christ crucified. If it were possible for them to have virtue without toil they would not want it."
God the Father said to Catherine of Siena:
" The blessed are conformed so entirely to My will that they cannot desire except what I desire, because their free will is bound in the bond of love in such a way that, time failing them, and dying in a state of grace, they cannot sin anymore."
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