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Quote of the day, 28 January: In 1931 St. Edith Stein left her teaching job at the Dominican school in Speyer Germany to work full-time on her translation of St. Thomas Aquinas, telling a friend that "he demands all of me." Learn why!

…on Thursday [26 March] I took leave of St. Magdalena’s. St. Thomas [Aquinas] is no longer satisfied with my spare time, he demands all of me.Saint Edith SteinLetter 87 to Sr. Callista Kopf, O.P., Würzburg (excerpt)Beuron Archabbey, Saturday 28 March 1931 On the threshold of Holy Week in 1931, Edith Stein writes from Beuron Archabbey to her good friend the Dominican Sister Callista Kopf. As her…

Quote of the day: 6 December, remembering Edith Stein's St. Nicholas celebration in 1932 at the Collegium Marianum in Münster

In the winter of 1932 we had a celebration for St. Nicholas

  Edith Stein biographer Sr. Teresia Renata Posselt, OCD—Edith’s former prioress in the Carmel of Cologne—writes of her experiences as a member of the faculty of the German Institute for Scientific Pedagogy at Münster, a position she accepted in early 1932. She resided at the Collegium Marianum in Münster.

Sr. Teresia Renata tells us…

Quote of the day: 15 April 1934, the clothing of St. Edith Stein

J.M.+J.T.

Cologne-Lindenthal, <Easter Week, 1934>

Pax Christi!

Reverend and dear Mother Petra,

Before I go into holy silence, I feel compelled to send you heartfelt thanks for the charming Easter package. Our dear Mother , Mother Subprioress and I happily unpacked it together, and on Holy Saturday night, an Easter rabbit and an Easter candle were stationed in every cell of the novices. I received…