09/08/2021

I have read that there is a "nuptial" relationship between Christ and his Church. I find this very hard to understand. It is based, as is all Church teaching, on Scripture and it is in these readings that are chosen to commemorate  St Benedicta of the Cross. She is a Saint of our times and a permanent reminder to politicians to avoid believing their own rhetoric. How many others were slaughtered by  the descendants of Goethe and Beethoven who abandoned their faith in Christ and in Humanity to follow straight forward evil without any mitigating circumstances. How could so many be so stupid as to give up their souls to the Devil personified in Hitler and his Cohorts.?

Edith Stein was an intellect far beyond my understanding. I have started but never finished several of her works. She was a Christian convert recreating in her life and death the Jewishness of the first Church and first martyrs. It is 74 years since her death and in that relatively short time. Europe has given up on Christianity. The German Church is in virtual schism. The Faith in Britain is still tottering undermined by  the effects of the Bishops conniving at  the sins of clergy. 

In heaven our Saint is completely happy in God's Glory for she has completed her course in holiness;or does she know that her happiness can only be complete when we on earth abandon sin and place all our trust in the Father Son and Holy Spirit.?

We must all never forget that we do not know when we will be called. There are no words worse than 

                                    "I tell you solemnly that I do not know you".

Dear Lord, you know all my sins and the number of them that I can commit even in a day. Let me be free of envy and anger this day and be inspired by the tragic life of our Sister Benedicta of the Cross.