Aug 09 – Homily – Fr Elias: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

Homily #130809b ( 12min) Play - Fr. Elias preaches on the life of St. Teresa Benedicta who is co-patroness of Europe along with St. Catherine of Sienna and St. Bridgette of Sweden. She was already well known by her secular name Edith Stein as an agnostic philosopher and a Jew when she converted to Catholicism after reading St Theresa of Avila and entered a Carmelite Monastery. She was taken away by the Nazi's after the Church in Holland spoke up against the Nazis. She was martyred in a concentration camp.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) - Opt Mem - Form: OF
Readings: Friday 18th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: deu 4:32-40
Resp: psa 77:12-13, 14-15, 16, 21
Gsp: mat 16:24-28

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