Episode 26: Mary Speaks about St. Edith Stein and St. John of the Cross - Union with Jesus Crucified (September 27, 2020)

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist and missionary Mary Kloska introduces the listener to the life of St. Edith Stein (Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) and explains her spiritual relationship with and writing about St. John of the Cross. She shows, once again, how it is precisely through the darkness, seeming abandonment and suffering of the Cross, that a soul finds the highest union with God through Jesus Crucified. Mary not only shows how deeply St. John of the Cross impressed himself upon the thinking of this brilliant philosopher and Carmelite saint, but also how she made his teaching incarnate by her own suffering of the Passion with Jesus, which culminated with her murder by the Nazi's in Auchwitz. One can clearly see by meditating on St. Edith Stein's writing about St. John of the Cross, how these two saints were deeply united in heart through uniting with Jesus Crucified in life and in death. She explains how it is the fire of God's Divine Love that draws a soul through suffering into a total transformation of a mystical marriage to Christ. (September 27, 2020)