"My mission-to make God loved-will begin after my death.
I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.
I will send a shower of roses."
~ St. Thérèse

"Let us see life as it really is...
It is a moment between two eternities..."
  ~ St. Thérèse, LT 8

"I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies.
To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul."
 ~ St. Thérèse

 “The only thing I really wish for
 ...Is to love until I die of love.”
 ~ St. Thérèse

"To Call God my Father and to Know myself His Child, that is Heaven to me ..."
 ~ St. Thérèse

“You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions,
nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.”
~ St. Thérèse

 MY ONLY OCCUPATION IS LOVE

"I do not desire either suffering or death, although both are appealing to me;
it is love alone which really attracts me...
I can ask for nothing with any enthusiasm
except the perfect accomplishment of the Divine Will in my soul,
 unhindered by any intrusion of created things.
 I can say, with the words of our father, St. John of the Cross,
 in his Spiritual Canticle,
'I drank in the inner cellar of my Beloved, and when I went forth into the meadow
I forgot everything and lost the flock which I used to drive.
My soul has employed all its resources in His service;
now I guard no flock, nor do I have any other duties.
Now my only occupation is love.'
 Or again: 'I know love is so powerful that it can turn
whatever is good or bad in me into profit,
and it can transform my soul into Himself."
~ St. Thérèse
 
Prayer
My Lord and my God I have realized that whoever undertakes to do anything for the sake of earthly things or to earn the praise of others deceives himself.
Today one thing pleases the world, tomorrow another.
What is praised on one occasion is denounced on another.
Blessed be You, my Lord and my God, for You are unchangeable for all eternity.
Whoever serves You faithfully to the end will enjoy life without end in eternity. Amen.
 
Short Biography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
by Mary-Elizabeth Peters, PhD, TOC
You can find the following biography,
 as well as additional information at:
http://saint-therese.com
http://sainte-therese.net


St. Thérèse of Lisieux was born Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin
 in Alençon, Normandy, on January 2, 1873.
She lived in Lisieux, and when she was fifteen years old,
 she entered the Carmelite convent there.
She died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four.
She would have attracted little notice,
had it not been for an autobiographical manuscript,
Story of a Soul,
 that she wrote in the years prior to her death
 on September 30, 1897.  Largely through the impact of that work,
she was canonized on May 17, 1925, only twenty-eight years after her death.
In October 1997, Pope John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Church.
Story of a Soul has been translated into more languages than is worth counting.
Her spirituality has been embraced by many, many people all over the world.

 
After Her Death
Pope Pius XI solemnly canonized St. Thérèse
 on May 17, 1925.

On December 14, 1927, Pope Pius XI proclaimed
 St. Thérèse, Principal Patroness,
equal to St. Francis Xavier, of all missionaries,
men and women, and of the missions in the whole world.

On May 3, 1944, Pope Pius XII named  St. Thérèse
 Secondary Patroness of France,
equal to St. Joan of Arc.

Most recently, Pope John Paul II named St. Thérèse
a Doctor of the Church on October 19, 1997,
World Mission Sunday.
Doctor of the Church" is a title given to a select few saints
"on account of the great advantage
the whole Church has derived from their doctrine."
She became only the third woman in the Church to be so honored,
joining St. Catherine of Siena and St. Teresa of Jesus,
Foundress of the Carmelites.

St.Thérèse never founded a religious order;
she never performed great works and never went on missions,
but she understood that what matters in the Christian life
is not great deeds, but great love,
and that anyone can achieve the heights of holiness
by doing even the smallest things well for love of God.
"All is well," she wrote,
 "when one seeks only the will of Jesus."
 St. Thérèse is a reminder to all of us who feel we can do nothing,
 that it is the little things that keep God's kingdom growing.

 
http://www.rc.net/org/therese/q&a.htm  - ***Rare Catechism on the Act of Oblation.

http://www.massofsttherese.com/ - ***music CD of Mass of St.Thérèse.

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintt02.htm - Links and prayers.

http://therese-de-lisieux.cef.fr/ang/frameang.htm

http://www.carmelite.com/saints/therese.htm

http://www.thelittleflower.org/

http://littleflower.org/

http://saint-therese.com/

http://www.carmelite.com/therese2002/life.htm

http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/aug12.htm

http://www.saint-therese.org/Shrine.nsf/littleflower?OpenPage

http://www.iw.net/~therese/stories/therese.html

http://www.silk.net/RelEd/therese.htm  - Many links.

http://carmelnet.org/chas/therese.htm

http://members.aol.com/GoodyBurk/StTherese2.html

http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Inside/10-97/theresa.html

http://www.christianmystics.com/quotes/furnace.html

http://www.karmel.at/ics/lisieux/biblio.html - Biography.

http://www.ewtn.com/therese/quotes.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/17721a.htm

http://www.bham.net/soe/parsons/theres.htm

http://conservation.catholic.org/st__therese.htm

http://www.cityonahill.com/motherteresa/st.htm

http://www.concentric.net/~Kashal/Therese/

http://www.magnificat.ca/english/therese.htm

http://hometown.aol.com/fatherpius/carmel5.html - Sense of humor.

http://www.theresians.com/saint.htm - Biography with music.

http://icspublications.org/

http://www.ewtn.com/therese/therese.htm - Audio clips from EWTN, prayers, quotes, plus more.

http://www.carmelite.com/therese2002/vonbal.htm - Hans Urs von Balthasar on The Little Way – Chapter 3.

http://www.geocities.com/baltimorecarmel/therese/index.html - For Texts of
St.Thérèse online.

http://www.carmelnet.org/chas/terese_homily.htm -  St. Therese of Lisieux: A Chapter Homily by John F. Russell, O.Carm.

http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/aug12.htm - The Love of St.Thérèse for Jesus.

http://showcase.netins.net/web/solitude/therese.html - Mystic of the Ordinary by Margaret Dorgan.

http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Faith/Sept-Oct97/therese.html - Article by Fr John A. Hardin, SJ.

http://showcase.netins.net/web/solitude/vilma5.html - Article: Spirituality of Imperfection.

http://www.ocd.pcn.net/tlhom_en.htm - Text of Pope John Paul II's speech upon conferring honor Doctor of the Church.

http://www.nd.edu/~mary/Therese.html - Another form of rose novena.

http://www.immaculateheart.com/Ave%20Maria/novena_to_St_Therese.htm#top -
Longer novena.

http://www.franciscancards.com/mon/therese/therese.shtml - Virtual novena.

http://indigo.ie/~sttheres/prayer3.htm - Litany of St.Thérèse, a modern version.

http://catholicshopper.com/products/st_therese6.html - Children’s books.

 
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