Tag: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

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Dear Mother, when meditating upon these words of Jesus, I understood how imperfect was my love for my Sisters. I saw I didn’t love them as God loves them. Ah! I understand now that charity…

Life Is in the Collective

 With the story of Thérèse, and only with her story, we see a fully realized mystic and saint portrayed as someone living at the center of a web of intense relationships: embedded, that is, in…

Today’s One-Liner (#226)

This little incident of my childhood is a summary of my whole life; later on when perfection was set before me, I understood that to become a saint one had to suffer much, seek out…

Today’s One-Liner (#204)

I felt charity enter into my soul, and the need to forget myself and to please others; since then I’ve been happy!  –Saint Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: Autobiography

Small Things

It is this attitude—this unblinking alertness to the meaning of each moment— that probably accounts for the intense compression of Thérèse’s spiritual development. She just didn’t miss a beat. As a novice, she was exerting…

Today’s One-Liner (#166)

We earnestly desire that all the faithful should study her in order to copy her, becoming children themselves; since otherwise they cannot, according to the words of the Master, arrive at the kingdom of heaven….

Aspiring to Holiness

You know, Mother, I have always wanted to be a saint. Alas! I have always noticed that when I compared myself to the saints, there is between them and me the same difference that exists…