St. Thérèse of Lisieux, “Daughter of Sts. Louis & Zélie Martin”

Posted by Catherine Cavadini on Oct 1, 2020 7:04:00 AM

St. Thérèse is affectionately known the world over as “The Little Flower,” and her autobiography, Story of a Soul, has taught “millions of souls” (Pius XII) what has become known as her “Little Way.” This Little Way has been admired and embraced by so many because it allows the ordinary things of daily life to become the extraordinary deeds of love that can lead to sainthood.

In celebration of her feast day, we contemplate her Little Way from three different angles.

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Topics: communion of saints, holiness, Little Way, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, A Season with the Saints, spiritual childhood, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin

The Church: Imitating Her Saints

Posted by Catherine Cavadini on Nov 21, 2019 7:03:00 AM

“The dazzling genius of Augustine, the luminous wisdom of Thomas Aquinas, have shed forth upon souls the rays of an imperishable splendor; through them, Christ and his doctrine have become better known. The divine poem lived out by Francis of Assisi has given to the world an imitation, as yet unequaled, of the life of God made man. Through him legions of men and women have learned to love God more perfectly. But a little Carmelite who had hardly reached adult age has conquered in less than half a century innumerable hosts of disciples. Doctors of the law have become children at her school; the Supreme Shepherd has exalted her and prays to her with humble and assiduous supplications; and even at this moment from one end of the earth to the other, there are millions of souls whose interior life has received the beneficent influence of [her] little book [The Story of a Soul].”

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Topics: communion of saints, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, saints, universal call to holiness

Thérèse of Lisieux, Saint of the 'Little Way'

Posted by Elizabeth Tomasek on Oct 1, 2019 7:03:00 AM

“If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.”
—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul (Rockford: Tan Books, 1997), p. 2

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Topics: Little Way, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, saints

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