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, 13 October: St. Edith Stein
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!
9 August: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
The world is in flames: do you wish to put them out? Contemplate the cross: from his open heart, the blood of the Redeemer pours, blood which can put out even the flames of hell.
Quote of the day, 8 August: St. Edith Stein
The offense that the misguided people give to the Lord by their manner of worship hurts Elijah so much that he wants to die.
St. Edith Stein Novena 2021, Day 9: An immense, unbounded desert
She feels that she has been led into an immense, unbounded desert. And this, for her, is the more delightful, pleasant, and lovely, the deeper, vaster, and more solitary it is.
St. Edith Stein Novena 2021, Day 8: Purgative dryness
One recognizes purgative dryness in that “the soul is powerless in spite of all its efforts to meditate and make use of the imagination"
St. Edith Stein Novena 2021, Day 7: Oppression and dryness
For God’s sake they are able to suffer a little oppression and dryness without yearning to return to those better times
St. Edith Stein Novena 2021, Day 6: Dryness, distaste and trial
Oh, who can make this counsel of our Savior on self-denial understandable, practicable, and attractive! ... dryness, distaste, and trial. ... the pure spiritual cross and the nakedness of Christ’s poverty of spirit.
St. Edith Stein Novena 2021, Day 5: God is
One thing alone is certain: that God is and that his hand holds us in being.
The Passion of Edith Stein, 2021: A compilation
This year, we present a compilation of our blog posts concerning the passion and death of St. Edith Stein, from Echt to Auschwitz
St. Edith Stein Novena 2021, Day 4: Her aim was the ‘desert’ of Carmel
She had already known when she moved to her 'Nazareth' that her aim was the 'desert' of Carmel. But she had to await the Lord’s hour.
St. Edith Stein Novena 2021, Day 3: In dryness and emptiness
In dryness and emptiness the soul becomes humble... she longs for instruction in order to reach the right way.
Quote of the day, 1 August: St. Edith Stein
When we see that Savior before us with the eyes of faith as the Scriptures portray him, then our desire to receive him in the bread of life increases.
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