feast day: October 1
about:
- born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin
- January 2, 1873 – September 30, 1897
- entered the Carmelite at age 15
- she saw herself as the "little flower of Jesus"
- The world came to know Therese through her autobiography, " Story of a Soul"
- she has been acclaimed "the greatest saint of modern times."
attributes: roses
patron of:
- Missionaries; France; Russia; HIV/AIDS sufferers; florists and gardeners; loss of parents; tuberculosis; the Russicum; Alaska
quotes:
source: https://www.ewtn.com/therese/therese.htm
- "Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors."
source: http://www.littleflower.org/abouttherese/learn/
- "What matters in life, is not great deeds, but great love."
- "My mission - to make God loved - will begin after my death."
- "I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses."
- “Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that the Church had a Heart and that this Heart was burning with love. I knew that one love drove the members of the Church to action, that if this love were extinguished, the apostles would have proclaimed the Gospel no longer, the martyrs would have shed their blood no more. I understood that Love comprised all vocations, that Love was everything, that it embraced all times and places...in a word, that it was eternal! Then in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love...my vocation, at last I have found it...My vocation is Love!”
- "You know well enough that 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."
links:
-"St. Therese, the little flower" (Society of the Little Flower):
http://www.littleflower.org/abouttherese/learn/
- "Thérèse of Lisieux" (source: Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux
- "ST. THéRèSE OF THE CHILD JESUS" (source: Catholic News Agency):
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint.php?n=611
- "Litany to St. Therese of the Child Jesus" (source: EWTN):
https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/Litanies/therese1.htm
