#saint therese of the child jesus

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Some quotes from Saint Zelie Martin, regarding Saint Therese in her childhood that I found adorable.

From The Story of a Soul.

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Mother Mary ♡

"My dear Mother Mary, I think that I am more happy than you. I have you as a Mother and your haven't the Blessed Virgin to love as I have.” - Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

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2023 JANUARY 20 Friday

"Perfection consists in doing His will, in being what He wills us to be."

~ Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, MS A, 2 r°-v°

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09/29/2023

Happy (almost) feast day of the most remarkably unremarkable saint!  St. Thérèse of Lisieux comics all October long!

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AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the first repost I've done for Tomics (Tomics Resurrections don't count; get a life).  It was first posted last year, but there was an error in the original.  Like dear Thérèse, I am, by nature, a proud and sensitive soul, so I suffered greatly from this humiliation.  Thus, I resolved to repost the corrected version THIS year, along with a month of St. Thérèse cartoons to make up for my failure.  I just listened to "Story of a Soul" to prepare, and I think I'm ready.  Pray for me, for if I err again, my heart may collapse. JOKE-OGRAPHY: Also known as St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, she was a stubborn, emotional little girl who led a surprisingly normal life.  Inspired by her older sisters, she entered a convent earlier than was usually allowed.  She died young of tuberculosis, but during her short life, she grew remarkably humble and wise.  Her dedication to showing love in the smallest details of everyday life has led some to say that she -- more than many lofty theologians -- rediscovered the Gospel, and in the simplest way.

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“I picture my soul as a patch of bare ground and I beg the Blessed Virgin to clear it from all rubbish and then build there a vast pavilion fit for heaven and adorn it with her own jewels.”

~St. Therese

(Photos © dramoor 2022 Bruges, Belgium)

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“Thérèse herself wished to write a commentary on the [Song of Songs], but neither her physical debility nor her sister Pauline allowed it.”

—Thomas R. Nevin, The Last Years of Saint Thérèse: Doubt and Darkness, 1895-1897

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX (St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face) The Patroness of Missions and Those Who Suffered from Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Feast Day: October 1

"If heavenly grace and true charity come in, there shall be no envy or narrowness of heart, nor shall self-love keep its hold. For divine charity overcomes all, and dilates all the powers of the soul."

Born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin, on January 2, 1873, in Alençon (a commune in Normandy), Orne, France, and was the daughter of Marie-Azélie Guérin (usually called Zélie), and Louis Martin who was a jeweler and watchmaker. Both her parents were devout Catholics who would eventually become the first (and to date only) married couple canonized together by the Roman Catholic Church (by Pope Francis in 2015). Thérèse's vocation was revealed on Christmas Eve of 1886, when she had a mystic vision of the Child Jesus.

At the young age of 15, with dispensation from Pope Leo XIII (who was 77 at that time), she entered the Carmelite Monastery in Lisieux (a commune in the Calvados department). She took for her motto these words: 'Love is repaid by love alone.' Inside the monastery, she did not perform extraordinary things, but fulfilled her daily duties in an extraordinary way. She accepted with faith the trials of her life, finding great consolation in reading the Holy Bible. Appointed as the novice mistress of the community, she taught humility and simplicity to the new candidates by words and example.

In her spiritual biography, 'L'histoire d'une âme (The Story of A Soul)', she wrote: 'I am a very little soul, who can only offer very little things to the Lord.'

Feeling a strong attraction for martyrdom, she offered her life for the salvation of souls and the growth of the Church. She said: 'I wish at all costs to win the palm of St. Agnes. If it cannot be by blood, it must be by love.'

At the young age of 24 on September 30, 1897 due to tuberculosis, she died with her last words: 'My God, I love you!'

In 1927, Pope Pius XI named her as the co-patron of the missions, together with St. Francis Xavier, to signify that in the work of evangelization, prayer and action are complementary.

As she said: 'I knew that the Church had a body composed of various members, and a heart inflamed with love. I knew that love drove the members of the Church to action, that if this love were extinguished, the apostles would have proclaimed the Gospel no longer, the martyrs would have shed their blood no more. O Jesus, at last I have found my place in the Church: MY CALL IS LOVE!'

On October 19, 1997, by the Apostolic Letter Divini Amoris Scientia (The Science of Divine Love), Pope St. John Paul II declared Thérèse the thirty-third Doctor of the Church, the youngest person, and one of only four women so named, the others being Teresa of Ávila, Catherine of Siena and Hildegard of Bingen.

©2021 photo by yours truly via POCO X3.

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St. Therese of the Child Jesus

St. Therese of the Child Jesus

01_st.-therese-of-the-child-jesusDownload Daily mass readings from 03/10 to 09/10 Sources: 1962ordo.today https://www.divinumofficium.com/ Twitter Instagram Facebook

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Being a Christian and an age regressor is one of the loveliest things. I think it's amazing because I am never without a caretaker- Jesus is always with us! In fact, Jesus says in Matthew 18:2-4:

"He called a little child to him and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

Therefore, our age regression is not a bad thing to him, or a burden- he actually CALLS us to be like little children again. He was kind and loving to the children around Him as He is kind to us!

He is also the protector of children and our innocence, as in Matthew 18 He says:

"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."

In a way, my age regression is part of my worship. I can pray and spend time with God, talking to Him, telling Him about my day as if He were my parent, sitting right beside me. He is kind, loving, ang gentle, and will always see us as His little children. <3

I think if there would be a saint for age regression, it would be St. Therese of Lisieux. She literally had a "little" way, and wanted to be small for her entire life. We are all little flowers in God's garden. He loves us all. <3

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Reasons to pray Saint Therese of Liseaux’s novena

Today September 22nd St. Thérèse starts (as October 1st is her feast day) and I decided to share a bit about the devotion to this Saint. Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face was a French carmelite nun who is known for her beautiful writings and her simple and practical approach to spiritual life which she called “the little way”. She came from a Saint family and joined the carmelite at age 15, she died at a young age but had a profound impact in the world through her writings that preaches about a spirituality based on trust in God and a desire to do small things with great love

Her intercession is asked for making important decisions (like discernment in vocation, engagement and religious vocation, which college to attend…), for healing (yours or of a loved one), to find a holy spouse, help with finding employment/new job / career, an increase in virtue(humility like her little way, chastity, piety, courage, grace to follows God’s will), conversion of loved ones , and for urgent or seemingly impossible requests.

Roses are often asked for as a sign of her intercession since she said, "When I die I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens." I have heard from so many of my friends who are devout to her of answered prayers that have come through the sign of receiving a rose

Even Pope Francis has prayed the Novena Rose Prayer, he said, "When I don't know how things are going to go, I have a custom of asking St Therese of the Child Jesus to take the problem into her hands and that she send me a rose."

Her novena is a shorter one with a starter prayer and 24 glories in homage to the 24 years she spent on earth and each day after finishing praying one “Hail Mary” and one “Our Father”.

On the first day we pray for the sanctification of Clergy. In the second for the missionaries worldwide and their necessities either spiritual or material and on the third for the Christians that are persecuted and martyrs. The intention for the fourth day is for the union and sanctification of families. In the 5th we pray for the depressed, for the oppressed and for those that lack direction in their lives while on the 6th we pray for the youth. In the 7th for the sick and so we can have a heart full of God’s love, the 8th we pray for prisoners and those incarcerated inside themselves by sin and on the last day we pray for the nonbelievers.

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and i will send down a shower of roses - St. Therese of Lisieux

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In today's Gospel, Jesus says the kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are like children. He doesn't mean that it belongs to the childish, or to those who have to be told not to put dirt up their noses, or to those who lack potty training. What he does mean is to be humble, as Fr. Hanson argues:

St Therese reintroduced modern people to what it means to be a child of God more than in name only. Her teaching may not come across in the sweeping, apocalyptic tenor of a prophet, nor with the urgency of a private revelation. Yet for those with ears to hear, the muted tones of her “little way” of spiritual childhood resonate with the equally subdued character of daily life. Woven of aspirations, trials, successes and setbacks, our daily experiences spontaneously converge in a cry for God’s help. How often do we find ourselves needing and asking for strength—even courage—to make it through the ordinary duties and pressures of life? St Therese’s little way defuses the distress that our weaknesses might cause by encouraging an open avowal of one’s limitations. She declares: “It is so good to feel that one is weak and little!” This is because Jesus reserves His saving mission for the lost, the sick, and the forsaken. When we recognize our place in one or more of those categories, then we reach the same conclusion as St Paul who not only refused to conceal but preferred to boast of his weaknesses (cf. 2 Cor 11:30; 12:9-10). Therese explains her little way: “It is to recognize our nothingness, to expect everything from God as a little child expects everything from its father … to be disquieted about nothing, and not to be set on gaining our living,” that is, “the eternal life of heaven.” Therefore she resolves: “I never wanted to grow up,” in spirit, so as to avoid taking credit for whatever good she might do. Rather, to remain little means “believing oneself capable of anything,” while never becoming discouraged over failures, “for children fall often, but they are too little to hurt themselves very much.” For those who seek signs and wonders this is not the way. But for all who seek to know “the only true God and Jesus Christ” (cf. Jn 17:3), it is all one needs to know.

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Happy Feast Day Saint Faustina Kowalska!⠀

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"I want to write down a dream that I had about Saint Therese of the Child Jesus. I was still a novice at the time and was going through some difficulties which I did not know how to overcome. I started a novena to this Saint, because before entering the convent I had had a great devotion to her.

On the fifth day of the novena, I dreamed of Saint Therese, but it was as if she were still living on earth. She hid from me the fact that she was a saint and began to comfort me, saying that I should not be worried about this matter, but should trust more in God.

She said, "I suffered greatly, too," but I did not quite believe her and said, "It seems to me that you have not suffered at all." But Saint Therese answered me in a convincing manner that she had suffered very much indeed and said to me, "Sister, know that in three days the difficulty will come to a happy conclusion." When I was not very willing to believe her, she revealed to me that she was a saint.

At that moment, a great joy filled my soul, and I said to her, "You are a saint?"⠀ "Yes," she answered, "I am a saint. Trust that this matter will be resolved in three days" ⠀

And I said, "Dear sweet Thérèse, tell me, shall I go to heaven?" And she answered, "Yes, you will go to heaven, Sister."⠀ "And will I be a saint?" To which she replied, "Yes, you will be a saint." ⠀

"But, little Therese, shall I be a saint as you are, raised to the altar?"⠀

And she answered, "Yes, you will be a saint just as I am, but you must trust in the Lord Jesus." I then asked her if my mother and father would go to heaven, will [unfinished sentence] And she replied that they would. I further asked, "And will my brothers and sisters go to heaven?" She told me to pray hard for them, but gave me no definite answer. I understood that they were in need of much prayer."⠀

Saint Thérèse and Saint Faustina, pray for us!

St Faustina painting by Richard L. George

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St. Therese of the Child Jesus, she is a doctor of the Church and Pope Pius X called her the “greatest saint of modern times.”

Read more at: https://www.praymorenovenas.com/st-therese-novena

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Thomas R. Nevin, The Last Years of Saint Thérèse: Doubt and Darkness, 1895-1897