Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
St. Edith Stein sends greetings on this date in 1934 to her old friend and recent Jewish convert, Ruth Kantorowicz; she offers this advice: let nothing distract you “from living in the intense thought of the Advent liturgy.”
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We recall the birth of the Servant of God Hermann Cohen on this date in 1820, with links to biographical sketches by his admirers and fellow Jewish converts. Cohen himself cries out, “I love Jesus Christ—that’s the secret of my immense peace.”
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Saint Edith Stein was born on this date in 1891, the youngest of seven children. Sister Teresia Renata, her novice mistress tells us about the beginning of Edith’s “life in a Jewish family” as seen from the Carmelite perspective.
For the love of God and man, once again I raise an anguished cry: May such criminal deeds never be repeated against any ethnic group, against any race, in any corner of this world!
At the end of January we had to go to Maastricht about our affairs and to Amsterdam at the end of March
I was born and lived in this state of original sin, unransomed by holy baptism
Edith Stein's sacrifice is a cry for, and a service to peace
I love Jesus Christ—this is what I want to proclaim
She bore much that was painful and did much that was good
The world is in flames: do you wish to put them out?
I met Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce, known in the camp as Edith Stein, in the transit camp at Amersfoort
God is eternal silence; God dwells in silence
Uniting herself to the pain of God made man, offering her life for her people became her great aspiration
Her sacrifice is a cry for, and a service to peace
"In spite of my conversion, I am always the Wandering Jew"
Edith Stein assumes the role of Esther the queen as she speaks of the Virgin Mary of Nazareth: "My life serves as an image of hers for you."
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Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. ~ St. Teresa of Avila
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