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Quote of the day, 2 April: St. Edith Stein

“Through him, with him, and in him in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father, for ever and ever.”

With these solemn words, the priest ends the eucharistic prayer at the center of which is the mysterious event of the consecration. These words at the same time encapsulate the prayer of the church: honor and glory to the triune God through, with, and in Christ.

Although the words are directed to the Father, all glorification of the Father is at the same time glorification of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, the prayer extols the majesty that the Father imparts to the Son and that both impart to the Holy Spirit from eternity to eternity.

All praise of God is through, with, and in Christ.

• Through him, because only through Christ does humanity have access to the Father and because his existence as God-man and his work of salvation are the fullest glorification of the Father;
• with him, because all authentic prayer is the fruit of union with Christ and at the same time buttresses this union, and because in honoring the Son one honors the Father and vice versa;
• in him, because the praying church is Christ himself, with every individual praying member as a part of his Mystical Body, and because the Father is in the Son and the Son the reflection of the Father, who makes his majesty visible.

The dual meanings of through, with, and in clearly express the God-man’s mediation.

The prayer of the church is the prayer of the ever-living Christ. Its prototype is Christ’s prayer during his human life.

Saint Edith Stein

The Prayer of the Church (1936)

Note: Edith’s former prioress, Sister Teresia Renata Posselt, O.C.D. comments on this essay in her biography, Edith Stein: Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite. Sister Teresia Renata writes:

Ecclesia orans. The classic phrase is indeed the most concise way of expressing the essence of Edith Stein. She was the embodiment of the Church’s prayer. No happier theme could have been offered her, to touch the deepest springs of her heart, than that set her by the Academic Union of St. Boniface: The Prayer of the Church. In 1936 she contributed an essay under that title to a symposium on “The Lifestream of the Church” (Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn). The thoughts she there expresses are the precious fruits of her own enlightened devotion.

Whoever reads this, can discern that Sr. Benedicta here opens the carefully guarded door to the sanctuary of her soul and lets us glimpse a little of her intimacy with God, kindled to a flame of love by the Holy Spirit in the opus Dei and in contemplation. Many people who were not very close to her were disappointed when Edith Stein chose to enter the contemplative order of Carmel rather than a liturgical order. But anyone who reads her article The Prayer of the Church will unhesitatingly include her among the great men and women of prayer from whom she there quotes, and will realize that this soul, inclined to contemplation by nature and grace, by inclination and vocation, could only become a Carmelite.

Posselt, T 2005, Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite, translated from the German by Batzdorff S, Koeppel J, and Sullivan J, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Stein, E. 2014, The Hidden Life: hagiographic essays, meditations, spiritual texts, translated from the German by Stein, W, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Orans woman in the Catacomb of Priscilla, a symbol of the Church at prayer. Image credit: Kristicak / Wikimedia Commons (Some rights reserved)

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Echoes of the Land: Indigenous Names Across the United States

Influential Individuals advocate for alterations to the traditional names of well-known landmarks on our maps. I reside on land that the Haudenosaunee people initially owned. I requested from ChatGPT a list of U.S. geographic locations with names originating from indigenous languages, including their meanings, where possible.

States

1. Alabama – From the Choctaw word Albaamo, meaning “thicket-clearers” or “tribal town.”
2. Alaska – From the Aleut word Aláxsxaq, meaning “mainland” or “great land.”
3. Arizona – Likely derived from the O’odham word ali ṣona-g, meaning “small spring.”
4. Connecticut – From the Algonquian word Quinnehtukqut, meaning “long tidal river.”
5. Dakota (North Dakota, South Dakota) – From the Sioux word Dakota, meaning “allies” or “friends.”
6. Illinois – From the French adaptation of the Algonquian word iliniwek, meaning “tribe of superior men.”
7. Iowa – From the Dakota Sioux word Ayuhwa, meaning “sleepy ones.”
8. Kansas – From the Kansa (or Kaw) tribe, meaning “people of the south wind.”
9. Massachusetts – From the Massachusett tribe, meaning “at the large hill” or “near the great hill.”
10. Michigan – From the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning “large water” or “large lake.”
11. Minnesota – From the Dakota word Mnisota, meaning “cloudy water.”
12. Missouri – From a Siouan word, likely meaning “people of the big canoes.”
13. Nebraska – From the Otoe word Ñí Brásge, meaning “flat water,” referring to the Platte River.
14. Ohio – From the Seneca word Ohi:yo’, meaning “good river” or “large creek.”
15. Oklahoma – From the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning “red people.”
16. Tennessee – From the Cherokee town name Tanasi, meaning uncertain but possibly “meeting place.”
17. Texas – From the Caddo word taysha, meaning “friends” or “allies.”
18. Utah – From the Ute tribe, meaning “people of the mountains.”

Rivers and Bodies of Water

1. Mississippi River – From the Ojibwe word Misi-ziibi, meaning “great river.”
2. Missouri River – Derived from the tribal name, meaning “big canoe people.”
3. Ohio River – From the Seneca word Ohi:yo’, meaning “good river.”
4. Chattahoochee River (Georgia) – From the Creek words chatta (rock) and hoochee (marked), meaning “painted rock.”
5. Potomac River – From the Algonquian word Patawomeke, meaning “river of swans” or “trading place.”
6. Susquehanna River – From the Lenape word Siskëwahane, meaning “muddy river.”

Mountains and Valleys

1. Appalachian Mountains – From the Apalachee tribe, meaning “people on the other side.”
2. Shenandoah Valley (Virginia) – Believed to mean “daughter of the stars” in Algonquian.
3. Teton Mountains (Wyoming) – From the Lakota word Tihtaŋka, meaning “big breast.”

Cities and Other Areas

1. Chicago (Illinois) – From the Miami-Illinois word shikaakwa, meaning “wild onion” or “wild garlic.”
2. Seattle (Washington) – Named after Chief Si’ahl (Chief Seattle) of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.
3. Tucson (Arizona) – From the O’odham word Cuk Ṣon, meaning “black base” (of the mountains).
4. Milwaukee (Wisconsin) – From the Algonquian word Millioke, meaning “good land” or “gathering place by the water.”
5. Cheyenne (Wyoming) – From the Dakota word Šahíyena, meaning “red-talking people.”

National Parks and Natural Landmarks

1. Yosemite (California) – From the Miwok word Yohhe’meti, meaning “those who kill” (a name for a tribe).
2. Denali (Alaska) – From the Koyukon Athabaskan word Deenaalee, meaning “the high one.”
3. Acadia (Maine) – From the Mi’kmaq word akadie, meaning “place of abundance.”

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A contemplative moment with the lovely Ashera in the studio. While she is wonderful at movement and creating poses based on her strength and agility, this particular moment from our studio session really sticks with me.

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I wrote a thesis years ago that focused on this passage from from the 4th c. #contemplative Christian theologian, Gregory of Nyssa:

In this way the mighty David became intoxicated and went out of himself: he saw, while in ecstasy, that divine beauty which no mortal can behold, and cried out in those famous words: *Every man is a liar* [cf. Psalms 116.11], thus giving us some hint of that ineffable treasure.

(Commentary on the Canticle of Canticles, 10)

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