We need to be like little children

Making Friends With The Lord Jesus · Aug 8, 2022 · 11m

Today the 9th of August we celebrate in the Catholic Church the memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Her original name is perhaps more well known. She was Edith Stein before she joined the Carmelites. She died in the second World War in Auschwitz in its dreaded gas chambers. She was captured in Holland where she was moved to by her superiors to hide her from the Nazis. She was a Jew who converted to Catholicism. After the bishops of Holland denounced the evils of Nazism, the Germans retaliated by rounding up the Jewish converts to Catholicism to send them to their concentration…