On the 14th my brother said goodbye to me before his departure for America. On All Souls Day, we will both remember our mother.
Quote of the day, 2 November: St. Edith Stein
Quote of the day: 29 January
I deleted “smoking” from the daily timetable and the day went on
Quote of the day: 31 December
God will have the last word and will reward the faithful servant
Quote of the day: 4 December
He bore everything with patience and love
20 August: Blessed Georg Häfner
I do not want to curse anybody, nor take vengeance
Quote of the day: 3 August
I met Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce, known in the camp as Edith Stein, in the transit camp at Amersfoort
Quote of the day: 27 July
Countless have zealously given up their position, their property and even their life
27 July: Blessed Titus Brandsma
He proclaimed human dignity and the freedom of the Church, even in the throes of degrading persecution and death
Père Jacques of Jesus offers this meditation on the virginity and maternity of Mary
I am quite all right in my solitude... God is near to me
Quote of the day: 19 January
Brandsma, a political prisoner, was arrested eight months before Edith Stein
After the August 2 arrest of St. Edith and her sister Rosa Stein, the police van drove them from the Carmel of Echt to the police headquarters in Roermond, Holland. Later the same day, they were transported to the Amersfoort transit camp, arriving after midnight August 3. Traveling in the same van with Edith and Rosa was Sister Judith Mendes da Costa, a Dominican nun who was an administrator in the Dominican sanitarium Berg en Bosch in Bilthoven, Holland.
"But I will accept whatever God arranges."
July 27: Blessed Titus Brandsma
"Oh, that this day we might realize the value God has placed on the suffering He sends: He, the All-Good."
Carmelite Quotes 
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