What is Secretum Meum Mihi?
After Edith Stein's abrupt conversion in 1922, her best friend asked, "Why?" Mysteriously, Stein merely wrote "Secretum Meum Mihi," Latin for "My Secret is mine," on a nearby slip of paper.
Modern women have secrets, too. We say to each other, "I don't know how you do it!" The admiration is real…but so is the exhaustion and anxiety behind it, juggling competing priorities and defying time and space on a daily basis.
Do you ever wonder, "How am I going to keep doing it?"
Edith's secret was Jesus. He was her secret "lover," and she dedicated her life to knowing, loving and serving him. At Secretum Meum Mihi Press, we invite you to take a break with Edith. Discover her secret!
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Written by Edith Stein
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In 1942, only months before the Nazis arrested Edith Stein and sent her to her death in Auschwitz, she composed a novena for her sisters in the Echt Carmel. We are pleased to pray this novena this year, fully aware that our prayers may seem foolish to some, but never are foolish to God. Day 1: “The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.”
Let everyone who listens answer, “Come.”
Then let all who are thirsty come;
all who want it may have the water of life and have it free.
Revelation 22:17
Prayer: Come Lord Jesus!
We are bold to ask, and even bolder to believe!
Your promises to us will be fulfilled.
Strengthen us in faith, hope and love! Amen.
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Written by Kristen West McGuire
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Archbishop John Carroll visited Emmitsburg on October 20, 1809. At age seventy-four, every clump of the horse’s hooves must have jolted his brittle backbone. He was anxious to see the foundation of the first American nuns. But he also needed to assess the spiritual problems reported to him by Mother Seton.
The sisters were largely settled by the end of July 1809. After their first community retreat, Fr. Dubourg, the first provincial, decided the sisters were too dependent upon one priest, Fr. Babade. To Elizabeth’s shock, Dubourg forbade them to correspond with Babade, nor to go to him for confession.
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Written by Kristen West McGuire
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When newly widowed Elizabeth Seton returned to New York in 1804, her Protestant friends and relatives tearfully greeted her at the harbor. It was the last public display of support she received from them. Her decision to become a Catholic nearly a year later outraged them; she endured constant persecution and withdrawals of previous promises of aid.
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