Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Father Ryan Erlenbush, Sermon on St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross - The woman who defeated Hitler

Father Ryan Erlenbush, Sermon on St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross - The woman who defeated Hitler: "



Edith Stein, a German Jew who became a Carmelite nun and took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was born to eternal life this day in 1942 in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.


She had once told her confessor, 'You don't know what it means to me to be a daughter of the chosen people - to belong to Christ, not only spiritually, but according to the flesh.'


St. Teresa Benedicta: a faithful daughter of Abraham, a faithful daughter of the Church.


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