Wisdom from Sr. M. Regina van den Berg

There are other events that contributed to Edith [Stein’s] conversion. She tells us how moved she was when she saw a woman with a shopping basket enter a Catholic church to make a visit. It was, she said, as though the woman were going to have an intimate conversation with someone. She had never seen anything like this; she had been to churches only for services. . . . The woman who made the visit impressed Edith, it seems, because the woman’s faith informed her daily life; her faith was a communion with a Person.

—Sr. M. Regina van den Berg from Communion with Christ