{"id":994,"date":"2012-10-23T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T12:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.220.215.242\/~standrf3\/risen\/?page_id=994"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:33:43","slug":"st-edith-stein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/our-province\/st-edith-stein\/","title":{"rendered":"Monastery of St. Edith Stein"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Contemplative Community St. Edith Stein
Attn: Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of\u00a0Matar\u00e1
Monastery of the\u00a0Precious Blood
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The Institute Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matar\u00e1 is made up of two branches \u2013 active and contemplative \u2013 which are part of the one Religious Family of the Incarnate Word and are united under the same spirit, charism and mission. Our contemplative sisters contribute to the missionary activity and fruitfulness of the Religious Family and the Church through the testimony of their hidden and silent lives, dedicated to prayer and penance.<\/p>

We have over fifteen contemplative communities around the world, including contemplative formation houses.\u00a0 You may also learn more about our life by reading about\u00a0daily life in the monastery<\/a>, and\u00a0\u201cquestions about contemplative life.\u201d<\/a><\/p>

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The Contemplative Community St. Edith Stein was founded on December 17, 1998 in Flatlands, Brooklyn.\u00a0 Then in 2012, they were invited to move to the historic \u00a0Monastery of the Precious Blood in Borough Park, Brooklyn. \u00a0This monastery was founded by the\u00a0Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood\u00a0in 1910 and has been in use since that time. Our contemplatives live with a small number of Sister Adorers still present in the monastery.<\/p>

Each of our contemplative communities is entrusted with a particular prayer intention.\u00a0 This community prays for the salvation of the Jewish people and is under the patronage of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (St. Edith Stein), a Jewish philosopher and convert to Catholicism, who died as a Carmelite nun in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"St.-Teresa-Benedicta-of-the-Cross\"Edith Stein was born in Breslau, Germany, on October 12, 1891, the youngest of seven children in a prominent Jewish family. Edith abandoned Judaism as early as 1904, becoming a self-proclaimed atheist. Arduously seeking truth, she entered the University of Gottingen. There she earned a doctorate in 1916 and emerged as one of Europe\u2019s brightest philosophers. One of her primary endeavors was to examine phenomenology from the perspective of Thomistic thought, part of her growing interest in the Catholic teachings. Propelled by her reading of the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila, she was baptized on January 1, 1922. In 1934, she entered the Carmelite Order. But in 1938 she was moved from her monastery in Germany into another Carmelite monastery in the Netherlands to escaped mounting Nazi oppression. She was arrested in 1942 as part of the order by Hitler to liquidate all non-Aryan Catholics and was taken to Auschwitz, on August 9 or 10, 1942. There she died in the gas chambers. Pope John Paul II canonized her on October 11, 1998. \u00a0Many of her written works have been translated in critical editions by the Institute of Carmelite Studies (ICS). \u00a0These include: \u201c<\/span>Science of the Cross\u201d<\/em>,\u00a0\u201c<\/span>Woman\u201d<\/em>, and various other philosophical writings.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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2013 Article from “The Tablet”:
“Two Communities Share Local Cloister”<\/a><\/p>

2011 Article from “The Tablet”:
“Brooklyn Cloister in Stitches”<\/a><\/p>

Ecclesiastical Embroidery<\/a><\/p>

Video about the Monastery \u2013 City of Churches:<\/p>