Catherine of Siena on the Cross

From a letter of St Catherine of Siena to Monna Agnese:

There is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

This is shown by the Word, for in obedience to His Father and in humility, He ran to the shameful death of the Cross, nailing and binding Him with the nails and bands of charity, and enduring in such patience that no cry of complaint was heard from Him.

For nails were not enough to hold God-and-Man nailed and fastened on the Cross had Love not held Him there.