Octavia Butler, Gene Luen Yang, Edith Stein, Mary Oliver, Lectionary Poetry - August 9

Octavia Butler, Gene Luen Yang, Edith Stein, Mary Oliver, Lectionary Poetry - August 9 - ERB Daily Book Morsel

Published: Mon, 08/09/21

August 9, 2021

“To suffer and to be happy although suffering,
to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty
and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned
with Christ at the Father’s right hand,
to laugh and cry with the children of this world
and ceaselessly sing the praises of God
with the choirs of angels—this is the life of the Christian
until the morning of eternity breaks forth.”

- Edith Stein,
writer / nun

Today marks the anniversary of
Edith's Stein's death in a Nazi gas chamber (1942)...

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