I stood with you beneath the Cross

"Today
I stood with you
beneath the Cross,
And felt
more closely
than I ever did
That you
became
our mother
only there."

- St. Edith Stein, from "Standing with you at the Cross", Good Friday, 1938, in Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite, ICS Publications.

Picture: Station 12, Stations of the Cross, by Max DeMoss, Church of the Nativity, Rancho Santa Fe, California.