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Sorrow, however, was mixed with the Mother’s joy, when it became necessary to send the babe to a foster-mother in the country. Instead of being discouraged, I told myself: God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It tells of her “Roses,” and sets forth again, in our world-wide tongue, her world-wide embassy—the ever ancient message of God’s Merciful Love, the ever new way to Him of “confidence and self-surrender.”
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They had been forbidden to speak to him but that didn't stop Therese. Even the Saints of our day speak a less radiant language: and sanctity shows ‘shorn of its rays’ through the black fog of universal utilitarianism, the materiality which men have drawn into the very lungs of their souls.”
This is not true of the sainted authoress of the chapters that follow—”less radiant,” in the medium of a translation.
Her childhood, however, was marked by both tenderness and trial. Last accessed September 27, 2024 on Wikimedia Commons.
L’Histoire D’Une Âme
The Autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
With Additional Writings and Sayings of Saint Thérèse
The Story of a Soul, the autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, is a spiritual classic and is one of the most beautiful autobiographies ever written.
She kept working without telling anyone until she became so sick a year later everyone knew it. Lisieux is deeply interesting by reason of its fine old churches of St. Jacques and St. Pierre, and its wonderful specimens of quaint houses, some of which date from the twelfth century. Produced by Alexey Gotovskiy; Camera by Alberto Basile and Fabio Gonnella; Video Edited by Giada D’Ottavi
St.Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as “the Little Flower,” lived uneventfully within a convent and battled tuberculosis for most of her life, dying at the age of 24.
Pope Leo XIII wisely and diplomatically advised her to follow the judgment of the superiors, and if it was God’s will, then she would surely enter. The following year she entered the convent. And thus, Thérèse’s “little way” was conceived: to do all things, particularly the small thing and menial things, with great love.
“Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love?” she wrote.
One time she was accused of breaking a vase when she was not at fault. At the age of 10 she had a very serious illness, psychological and psychosomatic, and she was healed by the smile of the Virgin Mary—that is, by the experience of Mary’s maternal love. Any inner wall she built to contain her wild emotions crumpled immediately before the tiniest comment.
Therese wanted to enter the Carmelite convent to join Pauline and Marie but how could she convince others that she could handle the rigors of Carmelite life, if she couldn't handle her own emotional outbursts?
Worst of all she had lost her joy and confidence and felt she would die young without leaving anything behind. Humility, self-effacement, obedience, hiddenness, unfaltering charity, with all the self-control and constant effort that they imply, are written on every page of the history of this little Saint.
They must have followed his advice very well because they had nine children. One year after her death, her autobiography, L’histoire d’une Âme (Story of a Soul), was published. So I sought in holy Scripture some idea of what this life I wanted would be, and I read these words: "Whosoever is a little one, come to me." It is your arms, Jesus, that are the lift to carry me to heaven.
Thus the great Christian virtues flourished in their home. And, as we turn its pages, the lesson is borne in upon our souls that there is no surer nor safer way of pleasing Our Father Who is in Heaven than by remaining ever as little children in His sight.