Thomas Griffin 8/9/25 (For Busted Halo)
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On August 9, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Edith Stein (1891-1942), a philosopher who took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross when she entered the Carmelite order. She was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), the youngest of 11 children in a large Jewish family. When she was in her 20s, she read the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila, and soon after converted to Catholicism, saying, “When I had finished the book, I said to myself: This is the truth.” In 1942, she was arrested, sent to Auschwitz because of her Jewish descent, and soon gassed to death.
Through her life and words — along with my own recent experience of Calvary — I have come to see the love that pours forth from Jesus’ suffering to us.
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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