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Edith Stein: A Saint for Our Times | Fr. Justin Charles Gable

Edith Stein, a brilliant German philosopher and a Jewish convert to Catholicism, lived in a turbulent first half of the 20th century. She saw early on the creeping villainy of Nazi politics. She saw the slow but steady rise in hateful rhetoric directed toward Jews and minorities and sounded the alarm bells but paid the ultimate price. Despite being cloistered in a Carmelite monastery in Belgium, she was incinerated in Auschwitz in 1942 and lost her life. She was canonized as a martyr and a saint by Pope John Paul II in 1998. Today, we see a similar rise of hateful rhetoric directed at minorities. We need saints like Edith Stein who can detect creeping villainy and stand up to it. Otherwise, history is bound to repeating itself. In this video, Fr. Justin Charles Gable, O.P., Ph.D., Regent of Studies at the Western Dominican Province in San Francisco, CA, tells the story of this remarkable woman. She is a much needed role model for our youth and her story tells us what happens when we don’t act quick enough. Subscribe and share. Follow us on social media: Facebook:   / emirsteincenter   Twitter:   / emirsteincenter   Instagram:   / emirsteincenter   Website: http://www.emir-stein.org Edith Stein: A Saint for Our Times “To stand before the face of God—that is our vocation. . . . Our daily schedule ensures us of hours for solitary dialogue with the Lord, and these are the foundation of our life. . . . No human eye can see what God does in the soul during hours of inner prayer. It is grace upon grace. And all of life’s other hours are our thanks for them.” -- from The Hidden Life In 1933, Edith Stein entered the Discalced Carmelite Monastery, St. Maria vom Frieden (St. Mary of Peace) in Cologne-Lindenthal, taking the name Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. What had brought this remarkable woman, Jewish and only twenty years earlier an atheist, to take the habit of a cloistered religious sister and live according to the rule of the ancient Carmelite order? Edith Stein was born in Breslau, Germany, on October 12, 1891, the feast of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement and the highest holy day of the year. Edith was the youngest of eleven children born to Siegfried and Auguste Stein, both observant Jews. Her father, who ran a timber business, died when Edith was just two years old. Edith’s mother succeeded in managing her husband’s business and providing an education for her children. Edith herself was a brilliant student, and by 1913 had enrolled at the University of Göttingen to study with Edmund Husserl, whose new approach to philosophy—phenomenology, a return to the truth of experience—Stein found herself irresistibly attracted to. During the early years of the First World War, Edith worked as a Red Cross nurse in an Austrian field hospital. In 1916, she resumed her studies with Husserl and in 1917 received a doctorate summa cum laude for her thesis “On the Problem of Empathy.” Despite her position as Husserl’s assistant and her manifest intellectual gifts, Edith found the way to a permanent faculty position in German academia barred to her because she was a woman and a Jew. During her years working for Husserl, Edith found a number of lifelong friends, fellow phenomenologists who were also Christians. She was intrigued by their faith and began to learn more about Christianity. In 1921, Edith’s most powerful conversion experience came with reading St. Teresa of Avila’s autobiography—she spent all night reading it, finishing it in one sitting. She later stated that she could not imagine reading such a book and not also putting it into practice. She was baptized on January 1, 1922. While Edith’s conversion was difficult for her devout Jewish mother, for Edith, it was a homecoming: “I had given up practicing my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I returned to God.” Still unable to get a job at a German University, Edith blazed her own trail: she taught for the Dominican Sisters at Speyer from 1923 until 1931, translated St. Thomas Aquinas’s De Veritate, (On Truth), wrote countless letters of friendship, spiritually mentored young women, and gave numerous lectures across Europe on the education and vocation of women. In 1932, she finally obtained a professorship at the Institute for Scientific Pedagogy at the University of Münster, but anti-Semitic legislation passed by the new Nazi government forced her to resign in 1933. ... Visit Emir-Stein.org to read the full script.