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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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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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When St. Edith Stein was a faculty lecturer in Münster, she celebrated St. Nicholas Day with her students in December 1932. One student recalled, “we sang Advent songs, and she was just like one of us.”
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Saint Edith Stein was born on this date in 1891, the youngest of seven children. Sister Teresia Renata, her novice mistress tells us about the beginning of Edith’s “life in a Jewish family” as seen from the Carmelite perspective.
On the 4th of July 1942, the Prioress of the Carmel of Le Pâquier, Switzerland proposed to the voting members of the monastic community that St. Edith Stein should transfer and be received as a member of the community. On July 5, the nuns gathered once again and held a secret vote...
"It was a feast such as the Cologne Carmel has never seen"
Sr. Benedicta answered, "Like the Bride of the Lamb."
It was a feast such as the Cologne Carmel has never seen
I look forward with so much joy to the silence
Edith’s six months of probation passed quickly.
Naturally, in our seclusion we have a beautiful and silent Advent
She loved to join in our small parties and celebrations in the house
Edith Stein was received into the Cologne Carmel as just another postulant
She bore much that was painful and did much that was good
I met Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce, known in the camp as Edith Stein, in the transit camp at Amersfoort
It was unanimously resolved by a secret vote to receive Sister Teresa Benedicta
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