Title Varies Slightly

Courtesy of the Association of Hebrew Catholics, today’s novena prayers and meditation.
Today we commemorate the day St. Edith and her fellow captives spent at Westerbork camp, being plundered of any goods of value they still owned, given identification numbers, and generally being processed as prisoners.
The prayer below is my own:
St. Edith,  the petty bureaucracies and [...]

Courtesy of the Association of Hebrew Catholics, today’s novena prayers and meditation.
On this day we remember St. Edith’s travel to yet another transitional camp. She and the other prisoners are forced to travel in complete darkness, without knowledge of their destination, knowing only that they will ultimately be killed. Near the end of their [...]

Courtesy of the Association of Hebrew Catholics, today’s novena prayers and meditation.
Today we read this remarkable account of how the clergy and religious imprisoned at Amersfoort turned their prison into a place of prayer:
The religious grouped themselves spontaneously into a little community which regarded Saint Edith as its Superior, so unquestionable was the ascendancy [...]

Courtesy of the Association of Hebrew Catholics, today’s novena prayers and meditation.
Today we recall the journey of Edith and her sister Rosa from Echt, throughout the Netherlands, to Amersfoort, where the Nazis had a transit camp. Because of the convoluted route taken (in order to round up more prisoners, the trip lasted until the [...]

Courtesy of the Association of Hebrew Catholics, today’s novena prayers and meditation.
Some people had a problem with St. Edith’s canonization as a “virgin and martyr,” because she was murdered in Auschwitz. They see her as a Jewish holocaust victim, not a Catholic martyr. Today’s meditation explains more fully why the designation as a virgin and [...]

Via ALA Online comes word that the Catholic Library Association has affiliated with the American Library Association. This means (among other things) that CLA will be able to co-sponsor events and hold meetings at ALA’s conferences.
I’m going to be rejoining CLA after a few years’ lapse, although I hasten to say their new status [...]

Courtesy of the Association of Hebrew Catholics, today’s novena prayers and meditation. The prayer below is my own:
St. Edith, you received grace from God to understand how your sufferings could be made part of His greater plan. Add your prayers to ours, that God might give us strength and wisdom to unite even our small [...]

I am horrendously inconsistent at praying novenas; in over eight years as a Catholic, I don’t think I’ve successfully completed even one. (I even managed to mess up a “speed novena” to the Holy Infant of Prague which is prayed every hour for nine hours.) Perhaps this is just one of the unique spiritual [...]

Scot McKnight’s new book The Real Mary is intriguing and ultimately frustrating read, one I highly recommend. McKnight attempts in this book to delineate only what can be known from Scripture regarding Mary, and to examine the further claims of the Catholic tradition regarding her in the most charitable light he can muster. And he [...]

It has always been one of my favorite Bible stories. Esther is the beautiful young queen with an important secret; her identity as one of the conquered Jews. Then vain and power-hungry Haman tricks the king into issuing a decree that all the Jews must be killed. Esther faces a choice: hide behind her new [...]