Love of the Divine Heart

Today on our National Day, is also the Feast Day of

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

(also known as Edith Stein)

She described herself as mercurially lively and precocious, as a kid, in her autobiography 'Life in a Jewish Family'. One of her teachers, described her to be, many steps ahead of her peers, in her studies.

Eventually, she became a prominent figure in society, and in one her lectures, complied in the book entitled 'Women', said :

God's love is an overflowing love which wants nothing for itself but bestows itself freely; mercifully, it bends down to everyone who is in need, healing the sick and awakening the dead to life, protecting, cherishing, nourishing, teaching, and forming; it is a love which sorrows with the sorrowful and rejoices with the joyful; it serves each human being to attain the end destined for it by the Father. In one word, it is the love of the divine Heart.

Empowered by this Divine Love, everyone can discover her own unique gift, for the good of others.

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