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Lectio: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
Lord, God of our fathers, you brought Saint Teresa Benedicta
to the fullness
of the science of the cross at the hour of her martyrdom.
Fill us with that same knowledge; and, through her intercession,
allow us
always to seek after you, the supreme truth,
and to remain faithful until death to the covenant of love
ratified in the blood of your
Son for the salvation of all men and women.
We ask this through Christ, our Lord.
Amen.
Prayer of St. Edith Stein
Whatever did not fit in with my plan
did lie within the plan of God.
I have an ever deeper and
firmer belief that nothing
is merely an accident when seen in the light of God,
that my whole life down to the smallest details
has been
marked out for me
in the plan of Divine Providence and has a
completely coherent meaning in God’s all-seeing eyes.
And so I am beginning
to rejoice in the light of glory
wherein this meaning will be unveiled to me.
Amen.
