Prepare yourself for the coming Easter together with the Discalced Carmelites.
You can register free of charge for the online retreat for Lent 2019 by visiting the webpage below and completing the form. After submitting it you will receive a confirmation message by email. Then on Ash Wednesday and, thereafter, every Friday of Lent, you will receive another email message with a new point of inspiration for the following week, along with short texts for daily prayer.
This year, St. Edith Stein will accompany us.
Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross is co-patroness of Europe. Before entering Carmel and taking this name, Edith Stein already had a long life as a philosopher and lecturer. Born in Prussia in 1891, a Jew who became agnostic, she undertook a quest for truth through philosophy and the events of her life, until her discovery of Christ.
Baptized at the age of 31, she became a remarkable Catholic intellectual. Forbidden to teach by the Nazis, she entered the Carmel of Cologne in 1933 and had to flee to the Carmel of Echt in Holland in 1939. Arrested with her sister, she died at the Auschwitz camp on August 9, 1942, leaving us her work and a powerful message. During this Lent, her writings and her life will nourish our meditation on this paschal journey in the footsteps of Christ.
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