To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly to sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels: this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth. ~St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, pray for us.
Witnesses to Hope 
Hi Sr Dorcee,
St Teresa Benedicta of The Cross was born on August 12, 1891. According to the Jewish Calendar that day was Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
Today as we remember St Teresa Benedicta of The Cross on August 9, 2011, this day falls on Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the Jewish Calendar.
For it was on Tisha B.Av that both Holy Temples were destroyed on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Israel. The first one by the Babylonians and the second one by the Romans.
This dual connection of dates to St Teresa Benedicta of The Cross is like being at one end of the universe and being at the opposite end of the universe at the same time. If that were possible.
St Teresa Benedicta of The Cross once said, “To be a child of God, means to walk hand in hand with God, to do God’s will, to put all worries and all hopes in God’s hands. God is in us, and we in Him, that is our portion in the divine realm for which the Incarnation laid the foundation.”
Shalom
Thank you so much for sharing with everyone this beautiful connection with these important dates for the Jewish people. God’s providence at work, orchestrating these dates.