Novena to Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Postscript

Novena to Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

Postscript

An attempt has been made to draw a parallel between the last week in the life of Saint Edith Stein and the last week in the life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. There is more in the parallel than pure analogy; Jesus himself, repeated his passion in the soul and body of Saint Edith. It is what gives to her suffering its full redemptive value. Through Jesus, our Saint sanctified the Shoah, turning the Catastrophe into a true Holocaust unto the Lord. Tragic as the story is, it should be understood as the sine qua non for the ingrafting of the Jewish People into the Church, their own olive-tree.

Hebrew Catholics should see themselves as the survivors of the Holocaust, no less than their fellow-Jews. All were sentenced to death by the Nazis.

In her life and death, Saint Edith is an example to Hebrew Catholics of identification with the destiny of the people. Alienation, assimilation, are contrary to the will of God.

It is the light of these principles, that we affirm the aim of the Association of Hebrew Catholics to be fully justified.

Elias Friedman, O.C.D.

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The Association of Hebrew Catholics (AHC) aims at ending the alienation of Catholics of Jewish origin and background from their historical heritage, by the formation of a Hebrew Catholic Community juridically approved by the Holy See.

The kerygma of the AHC announces that the divine plan of salvation has entered the phase of the Apostasy of the Gentiles, prophesied by Our Lord and St. Paul, and of which the Return of the Jews to the Holy Land is a corollary.

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