Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." (Mt 16:24-28)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080924.cfm
Edith Stein was a Jewish convert to Catholicism and later entered the Carmelite Order with the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. She was a philosopher and enriched the church with her great wisdom. She died in the Holocaust of WWII at Auschwitz-Birkenau. https://youtu.be/rEMHC_iJ1Ek?si=A2LLlhBTB-j7jZ4Y
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin & martyr, August 9
