What have these 4got in

common?

SUFFERERS

ALASKA

AIRLINE

PILOTS

AUSTRALIA

PATRON SAINT

'I would like to be a missionary, not just for a few years,but ’til the end of time!'

IRAQ

LEBANON

BELGIUM

AUSTRALIA

KAZAKHSTAN

ITALY

IRELAND

MAURITIUS

PHILIPPINES

BURKINA FASO

TAIWAN COLOM

BIA

GUAM

CAMEROON

HONG KONG

BENIN

USA

'I would like to be a missionary, not just for a few years,but ’til the end of time!'

FULL NAME: Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin BORN: Alençon in Normandy, France

11:30pm on January 2nd in 1873FAMILY: 7 girls, 2 boysThérèse and 4 older sisters survivedTRAGEDY: 2 girls, 2 boys died young

HER FAMILY WERE FULL OF FAITH

Thérèse

Thérèse’s mother died when

she was only 4.

Age 8'Suddenly the Blessed Virgin glowed with a

beauty beyond anything I had ever seen. Her face was alive with kindness

and an infinite tenderness, but it was her enchanting smile which really moved

me to the depths. My pain vanished!'

http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/

CHRISTMAS CONVERSION

'I do not know how I could think of entering Carmel when it needed a miracle

to overcome my childishness...'

PILGRIMAGE TO ROME

'Be obedient, if it’sGod’s will you will enter...'

HOLY DARING

NOW

THEN

Age 15

RESPONDING TO GOD’S CALL

In her struggle to enter religious life, Thérèse:

• showed courage, conviction & perseverance

• accepted authority AND took action

• CHALLENGES: faith, hope and love• PRACTICAL: seek God’s Will

do what you can to put it into practice,

then leave it in God’s hands

In her struggle to enter religious life, Thérèse:

• showed courage, conviction & perseverance

• accepted authority AND took action

• CHALLENGES: faith, hope and love• PRACTICAL:

Sr Theresa of the Child Jesus and

the Holy Face

LIFE IN CARMEL '...deep and serene peace beyond description...'

'I found a nun’s life was just what I imagined it would be. None of its sacrifices

surprised me, though there were at first more thorns than roses on my path.'

DEATH IN CARMEL

'I feel that my mission is soon to begin,to make others love God as I do...

I will spend my Heaven doing good on Earth. After death I shall let fall a shower of roses.'

PAIN AND PEACE

physical pain

emotional suffering

'When we surrender to discouragement or despair, it is usually because we are thinking

too much of the past or the future.'

spiritual darkness

Declared a Saint by Pope Pius XI,May 17th 1925

Translated into over 50 languages

Miracles galore!

Declared a Doctor of the Church by John Paul II,October 19th 1997

LIFE AFTER DEATH

'...my mission is to teach souls my little way...the Way of Spiritual Childhood, the way of trust and absolute self-surrender'

LITTLE WAY

'Sanctity does not so much dependupon doing extraordinary actions…as doing our ordinary actionsextraordinarily well.' Bishop Challoner

'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.'

'In the evening of this life, I shall appear beforeyou with empty hands for I do not ask You, Lord,to count my works...'

Sr Mary Patricia of Jesus on

St Thérèse of Lisieux

'Unless you change and become like little children,

you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.' Matt

18:3

Jesus said, 'Let the little children alone, and do not stop them from coming to

me; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of

Heaven belongs.' Mt 19: 14

Go out to the whole world proclaim the Good News.

Mk 16:15

Old Testament2 Kings 2:14,2 Kings 13:21

New TestamentActs 19:12

ST AUGUSTINE:Saints’ bodies were so

full of the Holy Spirit that God’s presence lingers

ST JEROME: honouring relics

honours God who made our

bodies

Our nearest local event is:

PORTSMOUTH CATHEDRAL on 16th September

Quotations from St Thérèse

I am a very little soul, who can offer only very little things to the Lord.

I will spend my Heaven doing good on earth. After my death I will let fall a shower of roses. Jesus, my Love, my vocation, at last I have found it ... my vocation is love! Yes, I have found my place in the Church and it is You, O my God, who have given me this place; in the heart of the Church, my Mother, I shall be love. Do you realise that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you; for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart…For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward Heaven… which enlarges my soul and unites it to God.... I have not the courage to look through books for beautiful prayers.... I do as a child who has not learned to read, I just tell our Lord all that I want and He understands.I see now that true charity consists in bearing with the faults of those about us, never being surprised at their weaknesses, but edified at the least sign of virtue…One can never have too much confidence in the good God. I shall love him to the point of recklessness. I will never put limits to my confidence.

God our Father, You have promised Your Kingdom to those who are willing to become like little children.Help us to follow the way of Saint Thérèse with confidence so that by her prayers we may come to know Your eternal glory.Grant this through ourLord Jesus Christ, Your Son,Who lives and reigns with Youand the Holy Spirit,One God, forever and ever,AMEN

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