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The Word of God existed before creation.
He wrote faith with piety as a path to salvation.
Heavenly Word, you gave us reason for scope.
The measure of how things work helps us to cope.
Remember the word that you gave for hope.
Your promise was the zenith beyond the height of the slope.
This is my comfort in the day of trouble
that your covenant helped me to win the struggle.
The proud have derided me for flaw
but I have not turned from your law.
When I remember your judgement
I take comfort in the adjustment
that made us triumphant
at the moral summit.
I have been filled with a burning desire
to correct the damage caused by angry raging fire.
Your statutes have been like songs to a stranger
whenever I needed deliverance from danger.
I remember your Name in the night
as the Lord who gave me insight.
Your law has given the enchantment
of the benign design of your commandments.
You are my portion in the land.
Your words are my meridian.
I entreat you with all my heart.
Be merciful to me for my part.
I have considered your decrees
and how they deliver me from disease.
I do not delay to perform my duty
that achievement may become a thing of beauty.
Though the words of the wicked seek to entangle,
your law gives me the better angle.
I rise at night to give you thanks
for the security of money in the bank.
I am a companion to all who revere you
with sublime direction to steer true.
The earth is full of your instruction
in how to organize material for production.
You have made goodness
for the wealth of human fullness.
Teach me discernment for knowledge
that defines a paradigm to solve the problem.
I went astray before I was afflicted.
Now your word helps me keep my thought restricted.
Your goodness brings forth more
instruction in how to keep score.
Divine law will be written on our hearts.
God will be the writer for the pious arts.
Empathy for others is the power of the recognized thread
on the level of human nature as the designated bread.
The proud have smeared trust in truth with lies.
The experience of your word bares youthful eyes.
Their heart is grossly flawed
by distaste for delight in your law.
You taught me to learn from affliction
to avoid pain with plausible prediction.
The recognition of mistake
is worth its weight
in changing fate.
Conversion is birth by the Spirit.
Inspiration is the guide for those who hear it.
Birth by the Spirit causes conversion
by the experience of baptismal immersion.
Write piety on your experience in life.
It will take you to the height above strife.
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Psalm 119
Zayin
The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. Zayin (זין) means "sword" in Biblical Hebrew. The verb lezayen (לזיין) means "to arm".
Memor esto verbi tui
Remember the word you
49 Remember your word to your servant,
because you have given me hope.
50 This is my comfort in my trouble,
that your promise gives me life.
51 The proud have derided me cruelly,
but I have not turned from your law.
52 When I remember your judgments of old,
O Lord, I take great comfort.
53 I am filled with a burning rage,
because of the wicked who forsake your law.
54 Your statutes have been like songs to me
wherever I have lived as a stranger.
55 I remember your Name in the night, O Lord,
and dwell upon your law.
56 This is how it has been with me,
because I have kept your commandments.
Heth Portio mea, Domine
My portion of land, Sir
57 You only are my portion, O Lord;
I have promised to keep your words.
58 I entreat you with all my heart,
be merciful to me according to your promise.
59 I have considered my ways
and turned my feet toward your decrees.
60 I hasten and do not tarry
to keep your commandments.
61 Though the cords of the wicked entangle me,
I do not forget your law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give you thanks,
because of your righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion of all who fear you
and of those who keep your commandments.
64 The earth, O Lord, is full of your love;
instruct me in your statutes.
Teth Bonitatem fecisti
Made Goodness
65 O Lord, you have dealt graciously with your servant,
according to your word.
66 Teach me discernment and knowledge,
for I have believed in your commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep your word.
68 You are good and you bring forth good;
instruct me in your statutes.
69 The proud have smeared me with lies,
but I will keep your commandments with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is gross and fat,
but my delight is in your law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I might learn your statutes.
72 The law of your mouth is dearer to me
than thousands in gold and silver.
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Jeremiah 31:33
This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them. I will write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people.
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Divine law will be written on our hearts.
God will be the writer for the pious arts.
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Nicodemus- victory for people
John 3:4-8
Nicodemus said to him, 'How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?' Jesus answered, 'I tell you no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh. What is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, "You must be forn from above." The wind blows where it chooses. You hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.'
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Conversion is birth by the Spirit.
Inspiration is the guide for those who hear it.
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Fragmentary Consciousness
Edith Stein
b. 10.12.1891 Breslau, German Empire
d. 8.9.1942 Auschwitz-Birkenau, German occupied Poland
Edith Stein was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Roman Catholicism. She became a Discalced Carmelite nun. Discalced is derived from Latin. It means "without shoes." The asceticism for the sub-order was more pronounced.
Breslau
The city named Breslau in the German Empire is now called Wroclaw (Vroclaf). It is located in the east central part of Poland.
It has been part of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy, Prussia and Germany. Wrocław became part of Poland again in 1945 as a result of the border changes after the Second World War. The changes included a nearly complete exchange of population.
Napoleonic redevelopments increased prosperity in Silesia and the city. The leveled fortifications opened space for the city to grow beyond its old limits.
Breslau became an important railway hub and industrial center. Linen and cotton manufacture and metal industry were notable.
The reconstructed university served as a major center for science. Secularization laid the base for a museum landscape. Johannes Brahms wrote his Academic Festival Overture to thank the university for an honorary doctorate awarded in 1881.
The Diocese of Breslau was disentangled from the Polish ecclesiastical province (archbishopric) in Gniezno in 1821. The action made Breslau an exempt bishopric.
The Jewish Theological Seminary opened on 10 October 1854. The institution was the first modern rabbinical seminary in Central Europe.
The brothers Karl and Louis Stangen founded the travel agency Stangen in 1863. This was the second travel agency in the world.
The Unification of Germany in 1871 turned Breslau into the sixth-largest city in the German Empire. Its population more than tripled to over half a million between 1860 and 1910. The 1900 census listed 422,709 residents.
Construction began on Breslau Fortress in 1890. The construction of the first infantry shelters that were part of the fortress began on April 24, 1890. Nineteen infantry shelters were built by 1901.
The shelters were built as three-layer structures in the years 1891–1895. The casemate vault was made in the form of a brick barrel, above it was a one-meter thick sand cushion and on it rested a granite-concrete detonation slab.
This type of construction was used in Prussian fortifications from 1887. It was to overcome the effects of introducing new artillery shells with a delayed fuse to the battlefield.
The 1900 census listed 98% as German-speakers with 5,363 Polish-speakers (1.3%) and another 3,103 (0.7%) speaking both German and Polish.
The population was 58% Protestant, 37% Catholic (including at least 2% Polish) and 5% Jewish (totaling 20,536 in the 1905 census). The Jewish community of Breslau was among the most important in Germany. They produced several distinguished artists and scientists.
Edith Stein
Edith Stein was born in Breslau on 12 October 1891 in an observant Jewish family. She was the youngest of 11 children and was born on Yom Kippur. Her day of birth made her a favorite of her mother.
Her mother encouraged critical thought. Edith was a gifted child who enjoyed her education. She admired her mother's strong religious faith, but she became an atheist as a teenager.
Her father died while she was young, but her widowed mother was determined to give her children a thorough education. She was sent to the University of Breslau.
She traveled to Göttingen in April 1913 to study for the summer semester with Edmund Husserl. She had decided to pursue her degree in philosophy under Husserl by the end of the summer. She chose "Empathy" as her thesis topic.
Her studies were interrupted in July 1914 because of the outbreak of World War I. She then served as a volunteer wartime Red Cross nurse in an infectious disease hospital at Märisch-Weisskirchen in 1915. Marish-Wiesskirchen is now Hranice, Czechia, formerly Czechoslovakia. It is located about 785 km (~490 miles) from Gottingen.
Stein moved to Freiburg in order to complete her dissertation on Empathy in 1916. She became a teaching assistant at the University of Freiburg. She agreed to become Husserl's assistant before receiving her degree. Husserl had transferred to the university.
While Stein had earlier contacts with Roman Catholicism she was drawn to the Catholic Faith by reading the works of the reformer of the Carmelite Order, Teresa of Avila. She read the autobiography of the mystic Teresa during her summer holidays in Bad Bergzabern in 1921.
She wanted to become a Discalced Carmelite nun, but was dissuaded by her spiritual mentors. She then taught at a Catholic school of education in Münster from 1923 to 1931.
She translated Thomas Aquinas' De Veritate (Of Truth) into German, familiarized herself with Roman Catholic philosophy in general and tried to bridge the phenomenology of her teacher, Husserl, to Thomism.
She visited Husserl and Heidegger at Freiburg in April 1929, the same month that Heidegger gave a speech to Husserl on his 70th birthday. She became a lecturer at the Catholic Church-affiliated Institute for Scientific Pedagogy in Münster in 1932.
Legislation for the requirement of an "Aryan certificate" for civil servants was promulgated by the Nazi government in April 1933 as part of its Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.
The word Aryan was adopted to refer not only to the Indo-Iranian peoples, but also to native Indo-European speakers as a whole. This included the Romans, Greeks and the Germans. It was recognized that Balts, Celts, and Slavs also belonged to the same group. The term was used academically as a general description for Caucasians.
The purest stock of Aryans according to Nazi ideology was the Nordic people of Germany, England, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway.
The Nazis defined Nordics as being identified by tall stature (average 175 cm), long faces, prominent chins, narrow and straight noses with a low bridge, lean builds, doliocephalic skulls, straight light hair, light eyes and fair skin.
The Nazis claimed that Germanic people specifically represented a southern branch of the Aryan-Nordic population
The Nazi use of the term was regarded as a code to exclude Jews from employment.
It had a social connection with the aggressive theology of the priest Arius whose teaching had been rejected as heretical by the Council of Nicaea in 325. Arius had associated teaching about the Son with the demiurge. The Son was not co-equal with the Father in this view.
The demiurge was defined as creative, but destruction was assumed as necessary to restructure society. This destructiveness was assumed as part of the role of the Son in the expansion of empire by military aggression.
Edith was admitted to the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Cologne the following October. She received the religious habit of the Order as a novice in April 1934. She took the religious name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ("Teresa blessed by the Cross").
Her sister Rosa was also a convert and an extern Sister of the monastery by then. They were sent to the Carmelite monastery in Echt, Netherlands for their safety in 1938.
Stein's move to Echt prompted her to be more devout and even more observant of the Carmelite rule. She eased back into the role of instructor at the convent in Echt, teaching both fellow sisters and students within the community Latin and philosophy.
They were not arrested despite the Nazi invasion of the state in 1940. Edith made a will and wrote to the Prioress to offer herself as a sacrifice for atonement in the heart of Jesus. She began to quietly train herself for life in a concentration camp by enduring cold and hunger.
The Dutch Bishops' Conference had a public statement read in all the churches of the nation on 20 July 1942 condemning Nazi racism. The Reichskommissar of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, ordered the arrest of all Jewish converts who had previously been spared in a retaliatory response on 26 July 1942.
Edith and her sister were arrested by the SS on 2 August 1942 along with 243 baptized Jews living in the Netherlands. They were sent to two different concentration camps.
Edith and her sister were among the 987 Jews who were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 7 August 1942. It was reported that they were exterminated in the gas chamber. A Red Cross investigation denied the veracity of that form of execution.
That they were deported and forced to live without recognition as citizens was still an illegal action.
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Edith Stein
S. 伊迪丝·斯坦
T. 伊迪絲·斯坦
伊 Yi she 伊 i Italy E え エ E 에 on
迪 di enlighten 迪 teki edify di でぃ ディ di 디 d
丝 si string 絲 shi thread su す ス teu 트 t
斯 Si this 斯 shi this Shu しゅ シュ Syu 슈 shu
坦 tan smooth 坦 tan level ta た タ ta 타 ta
in いん イン in 인 sign
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Empathy for others is the power of recognized thread
on the level of human nature as the designated bread.
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Lectionary Edith Stein
wiki Edith Stein
Franciscan Life and Legacy ES
Oxford Summary
Gutenberg Article ES
Article ES
wiki Siege of Breslau
Phenomenology lent itself to idealism and socialist ideology. It was rigorously dogmatic in scientific exposition. It was more like science was dictating the way to perceive phenomena to the investigator. The scientist wasn't encouraged to enjoy exploration or the description of discovery. Edith was only able to relate it to Aquinas because it wasn't explicitly anti-religious.
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