We need hours for listening silently and allowing the Word of God to act on us until it moves us to bear fruit in an offering of praise and an offering of action.
Quote of the day, 23 January: St. Edith Stein
Quote of the day, 31 December: St. Edith Stein
St. Edith Stein departed from Cologne bound for Echt, Holland on the night of 31 December 1938. In a farewell poem, she wrote: "In the heart of Jesus, which was pierced, The kingdom of heaven and the land of earth are bound together. Here is for us the source of life."
Quote of the day, 28 December: St. Edith Stein
The Crib of the Child is surrounded by martyrs: There are the innocent children, the babes of Bethlehem and Juda, who were cruelly slaughtered by the hands of brutal hangmen. What does this mean?
Quote of the day, 27 December: St. Edith Stein
No one has looked more deeply into the hidden abyss of the divine life than [St John]. Therefore, he proclaims the mystery of the eternal birth of the Divine Word in the liturgy each feast day during the days of Christmas.
Quote of the day, 24 December: St. Edith Stein
... the miracle of the Holy Night is renewed on the flower-decked altars with their burning candles: “And the Word was made flesh". This is the moment of bliss fulfilled.
Quote of the day, 23 December: St. Edith Stein
It is truly a marvelous exchange: the Creator of mankind, taking a body, gives us His Godhead. The Redeemer has come into the world to do this wonderful work. He became one of us—more than this, He became one with us.
Quote of the day, 21 December: St. Edith Stein
Because God is truth and because he wants to be found by those who seek him with their whole hearts, sooner or later the star had to appear to show these wise men the way to truth. And so they now stand before the Incarnate Truth...
Quote of the day, 13 December: St. Edith Stein
On December 13, he asked in the morning what day it was and when he heard it was Friday, he inquired frequently what hour it was: after all, he was waiting to say Matins in heaven.
Quote of the day, 7 December: St. Edith Stein
The bells of the cathedral have just finished their beautiful ringing in of the Feast of the Immaculata
Quote of the day, 5 December: St. Edith Stein
The greatest figures of prophecy and sanctity step forth out of the darkest night. [...] Certainly, the decisive turning points in world history are substantially co-determined by souls whom no history book ever mentions.
Quote of the day, 2 November: St. Edith Stein
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, 13 October: St. Edith Stein
I will now be allowed to spend the feast of St. Teresa as her child. Tomorrow morning I enter the Carmel of Cologne-Lindenthal.
Quote of the day, 6 October: St. Edith Stein
St. Edith Stein tells the story of how St. Teresa became the prioress of the Monastery of the Incarnation in Avila amid a great furor 450 years ago
Quote of the day, 2 October: Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew
Two days before her death, she said to me once when we were alone: "My child, the hour of my death has come."
Quote of the day, 4 September: St. Edith Stein
In God's new kingdom, the role of the human couple has changed; it has become a relationship of mother and son
Triduum of prayer for the Discalced Carmelites, Day 3 — 29 August 2021
Who are you, sweet light, that fills me And illumines the darkness of my heart?
Quote of the day, 26 August: St. Edith Stein
During that time of unusual demonstrations of grace and of the most severe tests, Teresa also received a visible sensory image of the glowing love that pierced her heart.
Quote of the day, 24 August: St. Edith Stein
St Edith Stein tells the story of how "a small group of nuns and visitors" in 1560 began to discuss with St Teresa the idea of establishing a new monastery in Avila
The Once Missing then Present Christ of Edith Stein — Discalced Carmelite Friars
Celebrating the centenary of the conversion of Saint Edith Stein in the summer of 1921
Quote of the day, 9 August: St. John Paul II
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!
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