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Tess15010
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Has anyone read any of her works? What do you think? She is truly amazing…
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I read this biography of her from TAN Publishing:
marianland.com/hist026.html
It was heavy in places because I am so weak in my knowledge of European history. But I certainly learned a lot about her and I agree, she was quite amazing.
I liked reading the stories about her sense of humor and her positive, cheerful attitude in the midst of the most depressing circumstances. I would like to be more like that instead of getting all mad when things aren’t “perfect.”
marianland.com/hist026.html
It was heavy in places because I am so weak in my knowledge of European history. But I certainly learned a lot about her and I agree, she was quite amazing.
I liked reading the stories about her sense of humor and her positive, cheerful attitude in the midst of the most depressing circumstances. I would like to be more like that instead of getting all mad when things aren’t “perfect.”
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Tess15010
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Cat,
I just finished reading, Edith Stein, The life of a Philosopher and Carmelite, by Teresia Posselt and it was wonderful. I highly recommend it. If you want to read something from Pope John Paul as he canonized her as a saint you can find it at, www.fatherpius.littleway.ca/carm03.html
It captured her life and her affect on life so well. I hope sehe will soon be considered a doctor of the Church along side her Carmelite sisters, St Teresa of Avila and St Theresa of Lisieux.
God Bless!
I just finished reading, Edith Stein, The life of a Philosopher and Carmelite, by Teresia Posselt and it was wonderful. I highly recommend it. If you want to read something from Pope John Paul as he canonized her as a saint you can find it at, www.fatherpius.littleway.ca/carm03.html
It captured her life and her affect on life so well. I hope sehe will soon be considered a doctor of the Church along side her Carmelite sisters, St Teresa of Avila and St Theresa of Lisieux.
God Bless!
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JReducation
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St. Edith Stein makes a statement that many of us on CAF should read and pray over very carefully. “Never accept trouth that is expressed without love or love that is expressed without truth.”
How often do we hear bashing on these threads in the name of truth and people call it charity?
JR
How often do we hear bashing on these threads in the name of truth and people call it charity?
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Thank you so much for the recommendation.
We first learned about Edith Stein back when my daughter’s Protestant college, Calvin College, did the play, “Edith Stein.” My daughter played “Sister Ruth,” the “ditzy” sister who has a sweet, servant’s heart, but doesn’t have even a tenth of the bra(name removed by moderator)ower of Edith Stein.
The woman who directed the play made sure that the actors were acquainted with Carmelite mysticism. They visited a Carmelite monastery near their city, and interestingly, my daughter kept going back. She told us that there was nothing distracting there. No pictures, no stained glass windows, no music, nothing She could just sit and think about God and pray. She could see the little “cells” where the cloistered nuns were praying, and it gave her a good feeling to know that they were there, praying for the world.
The play is excellent, BTW. The byplay and chatter among the sisters is so endearing. It really erases a lot of stereotypes that many of us (who weren’t raised Catholic) have about convents.
The playwright came to Calvin to see the production, and spent some time with the actors and tech crew. He really liked one touch that the director did–she cast the same actress as Edith Stein’s real mother, and the Mother Superior in the convent.
I believe that it was after this play that my daughter started seriously considering Catholicism. By then, we were already Catholic. This play gave her a chance to “try out” being Catholic. The play also introduced her (and the other Protestants at Calvin College!) to many of the basic practices, as well as the basic theology, of the Catholic Church.
Before the play started, the “nuns” walked through their “convent,” which was a set constructed “in the round,” so it passed right through and around the audience. The “nuns” did various little chores, like dusting the furniture, lighting the lamps, washing the floor, etc. before the play started. They didn’t speak to the audience, but they would nod and smile at us as they walked by us. The lights were very dim in the house, so we really had the feeling of being part of the convent.
I think my daughter liked this part of the play. She has a servant’ heart in real-life, too. (At family dinners, she’s the one who walks around with the coffee pot, picks up people’s empty plates, loads the dishwasher, etc.)
She loves reading about Edith Stein, Teresa of Avila, and other Carmelites.
But…she’s a professional stage manager! Not exactly “nun” material! And she’s dating someone!
I think it’s interesting, though, that even though she works from 6 in the morning until midnight doing various theater jobs, and she has a million friends in the theater world, she insists on living alone and enjoys solitary runs, silent retreats, etc. I think she has a Carmelite soul, if there is such a thing. And I think that Edith Stein prays for her and for all the Protestants who were involved in that play at Calvin College!
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my favorite quote from this great Saint:
“The Savior hangs before you with a pierced heart. He has spilled His heart’s blood to win your heart. If you want to follow Him in holy purity, your heart must be free of every earthly desire. Jesus, the Crucified, is to be the only object of your longings, your wishes, your thoughts…He wants your life in order to give you His. Hail to the Cross, our only Hope!” Last written words before being sent to the gas chambers of Auschwitz–August 9, 1942.
“The Savior hangs before you with a pierced heart. He has spilled His heart’s blood to win your heart. If you want to follow Him in holy purity, your heart must be free of every earthly desire. Jesus, the Crucified, is to be the only object of your longings, your wishes, your thoughts…He wants your life in order to give you His. Hail to the Cross, our only Hope!” Last written words before being sent to the gas chambers of Auschwitz–August 9, 1942.
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Cat,
Thanks for sharing your experience. I think after reading about St Teresa Benedicta that this was one of the things she stressed in her teachings. She wrote, “I believe that the deeper one is drawn into God the more one must ‘go out of oneself’, that is one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it”. The experince you shared with your daughter prove that.
The faith we share is so wonderful and to know that we share it with those that made such as incredible impact is amazing.
My favorite quote from St Teresa is:
“God is there in these moments of rest and can give us in a single instant exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace. And when night looks back and you see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it to Him – really rest – and start the next day as a new life.”
Thanks, again. Bless you and your family!
Thanks for sharing your experience. I think after reading about St Teresa Benedicta that this was one of the things she stressed in her teachings. She wrote, “I believe that the deeper one is drawn into God the more one must ‘go out of oneself’, that is one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it”. The experince you shared with your daughter prove that.
The faith we share is so wonderful and to know that we share it with those that made such as incredible impact is amazing.
My favorite quote from St Teresa is:
“God is there in these moments of rest and can give us in a single instant exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace. And when night looks back and you see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it to Him – really rest – and start the next day as a new life.”
Thanks, again. Bless you and your family!
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