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In St. Edith Stein’s biography of St. Teresa, Edith recounts the death of Teresa’s mother, which inspired her love of the Virgin: “The young person certainly surmised that she needed special protection.”
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“When the soul is clothed in faith the devil is ignorant of how to hinder her,” says St. John of the Cross, because “faith gives her strong protection” against that “most astute enemy,” the devil.
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In her article for the Augsburg Post in March 1935, St Edith Stein mentioned the origin of the brown scapular of Carmel: "the Blessed Virgin appeared to the general of the Order, Simon Stock, an Englishman, and gave him the scapular." Edith takes this piece of Carmelite tradition and firmly plants it within the Order's Marian spirituality.
In an excerpt from the new English biography of Blessed Titus Brandsma, he talks about the great joy he experiences when he wears his Carmelite habit "because it is the symbol of Mary’s protection."
O my Hope, my Father, my Creator, and my true Lord and Brother! When I consider how You say that Your delights are with the children of the earth, my soul rejoices greatly.
Then why should I take fright when foes or demons assail me with their treacheries or wrath, when I have knowledge that the Queen's archangel is keeper of my path?
Sinners like me can find in you a protecting Mother
It is as if they carefully expose that monastic garment to their Redeemer
He had singular affection for the Blessed Virgin Mary
He who overshadows him is now near to befriend and protect him
I told the little girl all that Mary inspired me to say
We are your children and your people
The mother must keep pure the atmosphere in which the child is living
For my part, I can do nothing
"Blessed cloud of God’s protection"
"Under thy mantle"
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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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