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St. Therese of Lisieux
Feast Day--October 3Therese, one of nine children, was born in France in 1873. She lost her mother at the tender age of 4 1/2 years and her sister, Pauline, became her second mother. At the age of eleven, she suffered another loss when Pauline decided to enter the Carmelite convent. Therese herself, entered the Carmelite convent in Lisieux when she was only 15 year old. She took the name Sister Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face.
She lived a simple life of prayer and intimacy with God. Through her sickness, doubts and fears, she remained faithful to God. Before her death, she said "My mission-to make God loved-will begin after my death. I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses." Roses are her signature and thousands imitate her "little way". In her autobiography she describes her "little way" of simplicity and perfection in doing small things. It has been an inspiration to many people.
A small insight is given us in a letter Therese wrote, shortly before she died, to Pere Roulland, a missionary in China. "Sometimes, when I read spiritual treatises, in which perfection is shown with a thousand obstacles in the way and a host of illusions round about it, my poor little mind soon grows weary, I close the learned book, which leaves my head splitting and my heart parched, and I take the Holy Scriptures. Then all seems luminous, a single word opens up infinite horizons to my soul, perfection seems easy; I see that it is enough to realize one's nothingness, and give oneself wholly, like a child, into the arms of the good God. Leaving to great souls, great minds, the fine books I cannot understand, I rejoice to be little because 'only children, and those who are like them, will be admitted to the heavenly banquet.’" From "Lives of Saints", Published by John J. Crawley & Co., Inc.
She died at the age of 26, with words of love of God on her lips. She is the patroness of France, aviators, florists and foreign missions. Her inspiration touched many people and she was canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 17, 1925.
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