Carmelite Authors 101: Edith Stein/St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Presenter: John Sullivan, O.C.D., regional superior, Washington Province of the Discalced Carmelite friars, and Carmelite educator and editor
Carmelite Authors 101: Edith Stein/St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
LECTURE
December 4, 2010
Presenter: John Sullivan, O.C.D., regional superior, Washington Province of the Discalced Carmelite friars, and Carmelite educator and editor
This lecture reviews the life and writings of Edith Stein, German philosopher, Jewish convert to Catholicism, and Carmelite nun, who was martyred in Auschwitz in 1942. Fr. Sullivan highlights the timeliness of her work for today and discusses approaches to her significant literary output.
Cosponsored by the Institute of Carmelite Studies, the School of Theology and Ministry, and The Church in the 21st Century Center.
Edith Stein (religious name Teresa Benedicta a Cruce OCD; also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 - 9 August 1942), was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun.
She is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church, and she is one of six co-patron saints of Europe.
She was born into an observant Jewish family, but was an atheist by her teenage years.
Moved by the tragedies of World War I, in 1915 she took lessons to become a nursing assistant and worked in an infectious diseases hospital.
After completing her doctoral thesis from the University of Göttingen in 1916, she obtained an assistantship at the University of Freiburg.
From reading the works of the reformer of the Carmelite Order, Teresa of Ávila, she was drawn to the Catholic faith.
She was baptized on 1 January 1922 into the Roman Catholic Church.
At that point, she wanted to become a Discalced Carmelite nun, but was dissuaded by her spiritual mentors.
She then taught at a Catholic school of education in Speyer.
As a result of the requirement of an "Aryan certificate" for civil servants promulgated by the Nazi government in April 1933 as part of its Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, she had to quit her teaching position.
She was admitted to the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Cologne the following October.
She received the religious habit of the Order as a novice in April 1934, taking the religious name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
In 1938, she and her sister Rosa, by then also a convert and an extern sister (tertiaries of the Order, who would handle the community′s needs outside the monastery), were sent to the Carmelite monastery in Echt, Netherlands, for their safety.
Despite the Nazi invasion of that state in 1940, they remained undisturbed until they were arrested by the Nazis on 2 August 1942 and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they died in the gas chamber on 9 August 1942.
Beautiful discussion Father, thank you. I will buy her autobiography.
Thank you Father. good discussion about Edith Stein
I never thought that a Jewish woman/atheist like Edith Stein would convert to Catholic Christianity ✝️. But she did and she became a Catholic nun and a martyr during Nazi Germany.
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It always amazes me that how a woman like Edith Stein who was from the beginning Jewish then became a atheist and then became a Catholic and became a nun and then became a martyr during WWII in Nazi Germany. And I would like to have a conversation with Ben Shapiro about Edith Stein.
What ´s name of the book ?
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross wrote "The Science of the Cross", "On the problem of Empathy" , and "Life in the Jewish Family". My opinion of her work is so clear about the work at the position of professor, no personal feeling express in "The Science of the Cross", it is so obviously about her respect to to truth and show me that how serious she was for that. For me, I felt so moved from her letters in the book "Edith Stein Collected Works". Her works are so meaningful for our present time with many scandal of the society (included the Church). Hope you find meaning in the work of the scientist, the phenomenologist as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.