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In 1940, St. Edith Stein wrote, "Since September 29 we've had a new Mother who would like me to write something again." She wrote from Westerbork Transit Camp on 5 August 1942 asking the nuns in Echt to send her the manuscript of The Science of the Cross.
To be taken with love for a soul, God does not look on its greatness, but on the greatness of its humility.
He bore everything with patience and love
He is holding these confessors captive in his monastery
I live almost constantly immersed in thoughts about our Holy Father
Since September 29 we've had a new Mother who would like me to write something again
The world is in flames: do you wish to put them out?
Meaning is a revelation known within the heart via love
"God darkens all this light and closes the door... now he leaves them in such darkness that they do not know which way to turn in their discursive imaginings.”
What is the content of the message of Christ's Cross? St. Edith Stein provides a brief outline in this excerpt from The Science of the Cross
She had already known when she moved to her “Nazareth” that her aim was the “desert” of Carmel
In dryness and emptiness the soul becomes humble: The earlier arrogance disappears when one no longer finds in oneself anything that would give reason to look down on others; instead, others now appear to one to be more perfect; love and esteem for them awakens in the heart.
In dryness and emptiness the soul becomes humble. The earlier arrogance disappears when one no longer finds in oneself anything that would give reason to look down on others; instead, others now appear to one to be more perfect...
Whoever seeks God and nothing else is not wandering in darkness no matter how dark and poor you think you are.
This prophet whom God commanded to go forth into the desert is to be the model of all who withdraw into solitude renouncing sin and all sensory pleasures, indeed all earthly things.
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