Volume IV of the Collected Works of Blessed Edith Stein

The hidden life: hagiographic essays, meditations, spiritual texts

Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Discalced Carmelite

Edited by Dr. L. Gelber and Michael Linssen, O.C.D.

The original of this work was published in German by Archivum Carmelitanum Edith Stein under the title of (Band XI) Verborgenes Leben: Hagiographische Essays, Meditationen, Geistliche Texte Verlag Herder, Freiburg 1987.

Copyright on the english translation 1992 Washington Province of Discalced Carmelites, ICS Publications. Permission is hereby granted for any non-commercial use, if this copyright notice is included.

• Translator's Note
• PREFACE
• Editor's Introduction
• I. BEFORE THE FACE OF GOD
• II ON GOD'S MERCY
• III AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS
• IV. IN THE GRACE OF VOCATION
• CONCLUDING MELODY: TWO POEMS
• NOTES