the beautiful poem at the beginning of "The Divine Crucible of Purgatory":

"O! It were bliss
After life's plenitude of miseries
And death's alarms,
To lie within the everlasting arms
Awakened by God's kiss,
Heaven's joy were all in this,
To lose all pain and dread,
And be thus comforted
By Love's own kiss--the kiss that wakes the dead."

"For He Himself shall wipe away all tears;
The pent-up grief of years
Shall sob itself to rest
Childlike, upon His breast.
With more than mother's love
He shall caress,
And bless
With joys, all joy above,
The comfortless,
Earth could not weep
To pass through death's eclipse,
Could she but know whose lips
Would raise her from that sleep.
Ye, who have understood,
Be not afraid,
Nor dread,
It is God's kiss--God's kiss that wakes the dead."

Indeed, it is! Thank you Gabriella

I am reading the Book of Deuteronomy.
 

I have finished the Book of Deuteronomy and now I am reading the Book of Joshua.

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I am reading "The Science of the Cross" by St Edith Stein.

Oh, I have heard of Edith Stein. Isn't she a Jєωιѕн convert? I would love to hear a little about this book. :)

It is her commentary on the writings of St John of the Cross. under obedience she compiled it while she was in Holland. She was just putting the finishing touches on it when the nαzι police came to the door of the convent to arrest her and her sister.  

That sounds so interesting!

She was a canonized saint;

In Echt, Edith Stein hurriedly completed her study of "The Church's Teacher of Mysticism and the Father of the Carmelites, John of the Cross, on the Occasion of the 400th Anniversary of His Birth, 1542-1942." In 1941 she wrote to a friend, who was also a member of her order: "One can only gain a scientia crucis (knowledge of the cross) if one has thoroughly experienced the cross. I have been convinced of this from the first moment onwards and have said with all my heart: 'Ave, Crux, Spes unica' (I welcome you, Cross, our only hope)." Her study on St. John of the Cross is entitled: "Kreuzeswissenschaft" (The Science of the Cross).

Edith Stein was arrested by the Gestapo on 2 August 1942, while she was in the chapel with the other sisters. She was to report within five minutes, together with her sister Rosa, who had also converted and was serving at the Echt Convent. Her last words to be heard in Echt were addressed to Rosa: "Come, we are going for our people."

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19981011_edith_stein_en.html

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I am reading the Book of Deuteronomy.
 

I have finished the Book of Deuteronomy and now I am reading the Book of Joshua.

I have finished the Book of Joshua and I am now reading the First Book of Samuel.  

The Dove with the Scarlet Collar, The Life of Mother Mary Elias of the the Blessed Sacrament, OCD, by Mother Teresa of Jesus, OCD.

Mexican-born in 1879, she lived through the revolution in Mexico, and the terrible persecution of the Church and escaped with her sisters to safety in Cuba, and later to the US where she established four Carmels.

Carmelite Devotions and Prayers for the special feasts of the Liturgical Year,
Compiled by a Carmelite Tertiary
First published by the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Milwaukee in 1956.

Thank you, Gabriella. Here is the website of the sisters:
http://www.sistersofcarmel.org/

Very beautiful and good to know they exist.

Still reading How Christ Said the First Mass.

What an eye opener.  They should teach this in seminary.