Il carmelo di Echt - The Carmelite Convent of Echt

E per vivere in solitudine nella pace e nel silenzio Ai confini della realtà Mentre ad Auschwitz soffiava forte il vento E ventilava la pietà Hai lasciato le cose del mondo Il pensiero profondo dai voli insondabili Per una luce che sentivi dentro, le verità invisibili Dove sarà Edith Stein? Dove sarà? I mattini di maggio riempivano l'aria I profumi nei chiostri del carmelo di Echt Dentro la clausura qualcuno che passava Selezionava gli angeli E nel tuo desiderio di cielo una voce nell'aria si udì: Gli ebrei non sono uomini E sopra un camion o una motocicletta che sia Ti portarono ad Auschwitz Dove sarà Edith Stein? Dove sarà? E per vivere in solitudine nella pace e nel silenzio Nel carmelo di Echt Il carmelo di Echt © 1991 Juri Camisasca Edith Stein was a German Jewish philosopher and student of the phenomenologist Edmond Husserl. After reading the autobiography of Teresa of Avila, she was moved to convert to Catholicism in 1922 and became a Carmelite nun in 1933. Under the growing threat of Nazism, she was transferred to the Carmelite convent in Echt, The Netherlands, in 1938. In 1942, baptized Catholics of Jewish origin were ordered to be captured, and the Gestapo arrested Stein and sent her to her death at Auschwitz. She is a canonized saint and martyr of the Catholic Church.

And to live in solitude in the peace and in the silence at the boundaries of reality, while at Auschwitz the wind blew strongly and ventilated the piety. You left the things of the world, the deep thought from fathomless flights, for a light that you felt inside, the invisible truths. Where might Edith Stein be? Where might she be? In the mornings of May the air was filled with the smells in the cloister of the Carmelite convent of Echt. Inside the enclosure someone who passed selected the angels, and in your desire for heaven a voice in the air was heard: Jews aren’t people. And in a truck or a motorcycle as it were, they carried you to Auschwitz. Where might Edith Stein be? Where might she be? And to live in solitude in the peace and in the silence in the Carmelite convent of Echt. English translation © 2021 Dennis Criteser Il carmelo di Echt (The Carmelite Convent of Echt) was released in 1991 and marks the return of Camisasca as singer/songwriter after his long period as a Benedictine monk then eremite that began in 1979. The album blends Camisasca's contemplative mysticism with both classical and electronic rock textures.