This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our rosary, Dr. Troy Hinkle, here with the Traff family.

Came up from Wichita to visit us with my godson, Isaac, and Frank and Katie were students of mine,

and Mike Shurislox many years ago, so we're honored to have him here to pray the rosary with us.

Let's call to mine, Reverend the presence of

Almighty God in whom we live and move and have our being. We call upon him in the name of the

Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I want to offer this rosary for my son Thomas,

whose birthday is today, and for the Shurslicks and the Hinkle's whose anniversaries, August 8th, which is when we're actually recording the rosary, but you will hear this rosary on August 9th.

Today is the feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the cross, otherwise known as St. Edithstein.

St. Edithstein was a Jewish convert to Catholicism, who became a Carmelite nun and took the name of

Teresa Benedicta of the cross. She was captured by the Nazis in Holland and executed at Auschwitz, August 9th,

1942. Her feast day comes at a providential time. I have received numerous comments from our devoted members and

podcast listeners. Her struggling right now with the trials of many kinds. These comments always

break my heart, but that's where saints like St. Teresa Benedicta of the cross come in.

Hers was a life dedicated to embracing the cross of Jesus Christ, in complete contradiction

to the spirit of our secular age, which emphasizes comfort and pleasure seeking.

Her life reveals the power of redemptive suffering.

Her identification with the cross transformed her,

including her life at Auschwitz. Instead of viewing her sufferings as an expression of God

having abandoned her, she recognized that her life had truly been conformed by the cross,

had become a means of mediating grace, not just for

herself but for others, especially for the Jewish people. In 1938, she wrote, I understood

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