Today is the Feast of St. Teresa Benedicta!
Before becoming a Carmelite, St. Teresa Benedicta was known as Edith Stein, a brilliant Jewish philosopher. Moved by the witness of St. Teresa of Avila, she took the name Teresa Benedicta when she entered religious life. During the Nazi occupation, she, along with other Dutch Jews who had become Christians, was martyred at Auschwitz.
During her beatification, Pope St. John Paul II said:
“We bow down before the testimony of the life and death of Edith Stein, an outstanding daughter of Israel and at the same time a daughter of the Carmelite Order, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a personality who united within her rich life a dramatic synthesis of our century. It was the synthesis of a history full of deep wounds that are still hurting … and also the synthesis of the full truth about man. All this came together in a single heart that remained restless and unfulfilled until it finally found rest in God.”
Let’s pray the Angelus!
🙏Let’s Pray the Angelus
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.
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