In fact, after her conversion Edith continued to attend ѕуηαgσgυє with her mother. Meanwhile, she continued to grow and impress as a philospher. In 1925 she met the Jesuit Erich Pryzwara, a philosopher who would have a tremendous influence on Hans Urs von Balthasar. Pryzwara encouraged Edith to study and translate St. Thomas Aquinas; she eventually wrote a work comparing Usserl with Aquinas.

Stein continued to accompany her mother to the ѕуηαgσgυє whenever she was living at home, as she had done previously, while an atheist, and it is important that the liturgies of the ѕуηαgσgυє only became meaningful to her-for the first time since childhood-after her baptism.