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During her years in the Carmel of Cologne, St. Edith Stein composed an additional strophe for the famous sequence hymn, "Flos Carmeli." Fr. John Sullivan, OCD describes the hymn and Edith's addition, which is still sung today by the Carmelite nuns in Cologne.
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St. Edith Stein says Mary is the example for “all women who want to be mothers” in a supernatural sense, helping those “who strive to unveil Christ in the heart of another. Woman's mission is to imitate Mary.”
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St. Edith Stein explains the teaching of St. John of the Cross, indicating how faith, hope, and love enable us to draw closer to transforming union with God in our intellect, memory, and will.
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St. Edith Stein penned a heartfelt poem when her sister Rosa was baptized. In it, Rosa lovingly declares: 'Mary, my Mother and your Mother, Has given me her name.'
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St. Edith Stein wore a wreath of white roses on the day of her temporary religious profession, 21 April 1935. Here she describes some of the celebrations, and Discalced Carmelite nuns explain the details.
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St. Edith Stein was clothed in the Carmelite habit on 15 April 1934. Edith describes her longing for silence before the ceremony and her novice mistress describes what happened that day. Plus, we have two videos of vocations from Carmelite monasteries in Mexico as examples.
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Fr. Antoine-Marie Leduc leads us in our Easter meditation on prayer; Father and St. Thérèse remind us that prayer has two dimensions: missionary and priestly, and they explains how this is so. https://carmelitequotes.blog/2023/04/08/leduc-tejprayer/
We ponder once again St. Edith Stein’s haunting exhortation: "Stand before the Lord who hangs from the cross with his heart torn open. He poured out the blood of his heart in order to win your heart."
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In her article for the Augsburg Post published 31 March 1935, St Edith Stein explains the heart of the Carmelite Rule, "meditating on the Law of the Lord day and night and watching in prayer."
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St. Teresa was born on 28 March 1515 to devout parents in Avila. St. Edith Stein describes her birth and background: “Teresa, a bold warrior for God, came from such a race of heroes” as the knights of Old Castile.
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St. Edith Stein contemplates the link between silence and the Annunciation of the Lord: "The decision for the Redemption was conceived in the eternal silence of the inner divine life."
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Today once again we read St. Edith Stein's powerful words, "God is truth," written on 23 March 1938. She adds that God's mercy can't be contained by the boundaries of the "visible Church."
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On 27 February 1935, St. Edith Stein explained to a friend that she was uninvolved with Gertrud von Le Fort's Carmelite novella, 'The Song at the Scaffold.' Edith writes, "she hit upon the material without my having anything to do with it."
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On 15 February 1934 St. Edith Stein knelt before the nuns of the Carmel of Cologne-Lindenthal and formally requested to be clothed in the holy habit of Carmel. We trace a few details from her letters and the biography written by her novice mistress.
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On 2 February 1922 St. Edith Stein received the Sacrament of Confirmation. Here we read the recollections of her novice mistress, with added commentary by scholar, translator, and editor Father John Sullivan, O.C.D.
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St Edith Stein's time of postulancy was moving quickly. In January 1934 she wrote: "As I stand in our peaceful choir I cannot thank God enough for having lifted me out of the whirlwind and set me in this profound peace, that I have done nothing to deserve."
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St. Edith Stein describes clashes between the state and Church, but she notes that it works both ways. The state can have "excessive claim to power" and the Church can exercise its teaching mandate "wrongfully."
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St. Edith Stein writes, “In faithful trust, we must abandon our souls to the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit. It is not necessary that we experience the epiphany in our lives.” Edith urges trust and abandonment.
St. Edith Stein sends New Year’s greetings to her friend, philosopher Roman Ingarden. Apologizing for her formality, she writes: “All the best wishes for the New Year for the entire family!”
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On the anniversary of St John of the Cross’s canonization, we read a quote from St Edith Stein’s “Science of the Cross,” which recounts an assault on John from an angry lover whose girlfriend John converted.
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