Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
Thérèse Martin was born at Alencon in 1873. At the age of fifteen, she entered the Carmel at Lisieux. She practiced heroic humility, evangelical simplicity, and trust in God, and taught the novices these virtues by word and example. She offered her life for the salvation of souls and the growth of the Church. She died on September 30, 1897. Canonized in 1925, she was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1997.
Born in 1873, Thérèse Martin died in the Carmel of Lisieux 30 September 1897. She was canonized in 1925; in 1997 she was declared a Doctor of the Church by St. John Paul II.
As I return from my pilgrimage to Lisieux, allow me also to invoke the little Carmelite, St. Therese of the Child Jesus, who has many close ties with Vietnam
Jesus will give Himself to you as a tiny Child because you are still so small
Her great desire will be fulfilled: I will be a priest, an apostle according to God's heart
With your celestial aid, in peace I await the other life
Don’t think that when I’m in Heaven I’ll make your life easy
What do death and life mean to me? Jesus, my joy is to love you!
My only joy on this earth is to be able to make you rejoice
I like Lourdes water better, it's more pious
If sometimes I shed tears my joy is to hide them well
See, that's an image of me, my life is hanging on by a tiny thread.
My joy is to remain little So when I fall down along the way I can get up very quickly
A little victim of love can't think that what her Spouse sends her out of love is awful
My joy, it's the Holy Will of Jesus my only love
My own good is undoubtedly to suffer
My joy is to love suffering, I gratefully accept the thorns mixed in with the flowers
Crying was very painful for Thérèse as she neared death
Joy is in my heart... This joy isn't fleeting... I possess it without return
What a grace to have faith! If I didn't have faith, I would have killed myself...
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Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. ~ St. Teresa of Avila
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