Edith Stein, Martyr and Saint
How does God work within our souls? What is the meaning of the cross within our lives? Come to the next Spiritual Classics gathering on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 7:00 pm in the Ascension Parish Center Dining Room, when we’ll discuss Edith Stein’s book, The Hidden Life, which addresses these penetrating questions about spirituality working deep within our hearts. Maryanne Rusinak will lead the discussion. All Oak Park parishes are welcome.
The Hidden Life is a collection of short essays and meditations by Edith Stein on the hidden life and epiphanies of God's work in souls. For example, the kings at the manger represent seekers from all lands led by grace to find truth. These writings were composed during Stein’s final years, before she was killed by the Nazis in the gas chamber at Birkenau. Stein was a philosopher, Catholic feminist, convert, Carmelite nun, and one of the six patron saints of Europe.
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The World of Silence with Max Picard
Our world is filled with noise and constant communications – beeps and pings, texts and emails, phone rings demanding your urgent attention. Have you longed for silence, for a quiet space uninterrupted by all that unwanted noise? Come to the next Spiritual Classics gathering on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 7:00 pm in the Ascension Parish Center Dining Room, when we’ll discuss Max Picard’s book, The World of Silence, with Rich Kordesh leading the discussion. All Oak Park parishes are welcome.
Picard’s book gives silence deep meaning and significance, and describes how silence can transform us. In many short chapters, Picard writes about such things as silence and nature, silence and time, silence and the ego, and the noise of words. Picard was a Swiss writer in the early twentieth century, born Jewish, who converted to Catholicism. Picard believes that silence is sacred and necessary, and he mourned the loss of it in the modern world.
For more information about our monthly Spiritual Classics discussions or for a pdf copy of the book, send an email to [email protected]