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Quote of the day, 31 October: Blessed Georg Häfner

On 11 December 1941, Georg Häfner could still write relatively freely from the Gestapo prison in Würzburg—unlike later in Dachau concentration camp. He sent these lines to his parents from captivity:

It’s determined by the Lord that I continue on the way of the cross. On Thursday, I’ll very probably go to Dachau. Don’t worry too much about it. Nothing happens apart from God’s will.

I was very glad, dear Father, that you visited me today. You stayed strong, and your sign of the cross, your blessing that you pressed on my forehead in the name of dear Mother as well, won’t be in vain—I’m counting on it, for in Holy Scripture it says, a father’s blessing builds houses for his children.

It affected me more that I could hardly get a word out. I wanted to tell you one last thing: I hope that very soon the time will come again when I can greet you again as Father and Mother. Forgive me for everything by which I’ve hurt you and caused you worry. I thank you with all my heart, with a thousandfold “God reward you,” that you let me become a priest, even though you now must bear the cross together with your priestly son.

We bear this cross together patiently—that gives me special strength and special comfort. I bear it, and you help me through your prayer, through your patience, through your trust in God, through your surrender to God’s will. We will curse no one, hold nothing against anyone, and we will be good to all.

Dear Mother! I don’t hold it against you, I understand well that you couldn’t be there today. In the person of dear Father, you were there too. Go often to the sacraments, especially to Holy Communion, then God’s blessing cannot fail….

Until we meet again soon, joyfully and in good health! I pray and make sacrifices every day for you.

Blessed Georg Häfner

Letter to his parents from the Gestapo prison in Würzburg
9 December 1941

Note: Blessed Georg Häfner (1900–1942) was a German diocesan priest and member of the Secular Carmelite Order who served as pastor of Oberschwarzach in Bavaria. His fervent pastoral work and religious instruction in state schools made him an enemy of the Nazi regime, which viewed Christian principles as contrary to the state. The Nazis sought various pretexts to arrest him, but found their opportunity during the funeral of a forest warden. Father Georg stated in his funeral homily that the deceased had reconciled with the Catholic Church before death, declaring his second civil marriage invalid. On 31 October 1941, Father Häfner was arrested by the Gestapo on charges of “conduct hostile to the state.” Imprisoned in Würzburg, he was deported to Dachau concentration camp on 12 December 1941, where he continued to preach the faith while enduring physical and moral suffering. He died from starvation and exhaustion on 20 August 1942 and was beatified on 15 May 2011.

Scheele, P-W & Wittstadt, K 2011, Georg Häfner: Priester und Opfer. Briefe aus der Haft. Gestapodokumente, 2nd edn, Würzburg, pp. 90-91, quoted in Schäfer, J 2023, Georg Häfner, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon, viewed 29 October 2025, https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienG/Georg_Haefner.html.

Translation from the German text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Blessed Georg Häfner is seen in his Gestapo booking photo (left) and in a formal portrait (right), which was used for the holy card printed after his death. Image credits: Discalced Carmelites (By permission) and the Diocese of Würzburg / Wikipedia (Fair use).

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Evenings don’t have to feel chaotic 🌙✨
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Quote of the day, 25 October: Teresita Cepeda

Teresa is writing a letter. If you could see the faces she’s making while writing you would be delighted. However badly our fortunes go I don’t allow them to tell her anything. Today is January 30.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Discalced Carmelite translator, editor, and scholar Fr. Kieran Kavanaugh tells us that this autograph fragment—presumably written in 1578 to Padre Jerónimo Gracián from Avila—gives us an intimate glimpse into the tender relationship between Teresa and her niece, ‘Teresita’, Sister Teresa of Jesus Cepeda.

Saint Teresa describes a little scene: she watches as Teresita, about eleven years old, makes her first attempts at writing. This detail is significant. In 1935, the international literary quarterly Books Abroad invited the famed Ecuadorean writer Víctor Manuel Rendón, to write an article on Ecuadorean literature. He chose ‘Women Writers of Ecuador’ as his topic and made a bold claim:

Who was the first woman writer of Ecuador? Teresa de Jesús Cepeda (1566–1610). Her father was a brother of Santa Teresa de Jesús. She was born in Quito but was taken at an early age to Spain and educated in the Carmelite Convent over which her glorious aunt presided. The latter said of her: “She has the disposition of an angel, and is a brilliant conversationalist; she tells stories of the Indians and of the sea better than I could tell them.” All that we have of Teresa de Jesús Cepeda is her letters; but they are written with consummate grace and in the purest Castilian, abounding in profound ideas in which discretion, strength, modesty, and piety vie with one another, like reflections of the divine intellectual gifts of the Saint of Avila.

Discalced Carmelite historian Father Iván Mora Pernía places Teresita’s date of birth as 25 October, relying upon the research of Teresian biographer Father Salvador de la Virgen del Carmen, OCD.

Father Mora recalls the words of St. Teresa’s brother Lorenzo, Teresita’s father. In July 1576, while Teresa remained in Toledo at Father Gracián’s direction, Lorenzo traveled to Avila and presented his daughter to the nuns at the Carmel of St. Joseph, saying: “I’m giving you the best gift I brought back from the Indies.” Teresita had already charmed the sisters in Seville, and now she would make St. Joseph’s her home.

Rendón, Víctor M. “Women Writers of Ecuador.” Books Abroad 9, no. 4 (1935): 380–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/40077015.

Featured image: Portrait of Teresa de Jesús Cepeda by Fray Juan de la Miseria (Italian, 1526–1616), the same artist who painted the only definitively authentic portrait of St. Teresa of Avila in 1576. The painting is located at the Convento de las Teresas in Seville and depicts the young Discalced Carmelite nun known as “Teresita,” niece of St. Teresa of Avila. Image credit: © Jl FilpoC / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

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📚 The Berry Pickers by: Amanda Peters

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years

"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New Book
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My favorite protest sign of all the ones I've seen in my feed, from the latest #NoKings2 protest.

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