We continue our powerhouse week of saints and angels!
The
remarkable fact about our saint of the day—St. Therese of Lisieux—is she was
self-admittedly unremarkable. She
didn’t have the stigmata. She wasn’t
a mystic. She wasn’t called to be
in the limelight of the world.
Yet
what made her remarkable is that she did everything—even the simple things of
life—with exceptional love. As she
struggled to discern her vocation she realized that her vocation was simply to
love—and she did this as a member of the Carmelites.
My
favorite anecdote from her life deals with a relationship she formed with
another sister. In her journal she
stated she didn’t care for this woman for a variety of reasons. Rather than judging, rejecting or
avoiding this sister, she made a special effort to reach out to her. She did so to such a degree that this
sister thought she was the best friend of the Little Flower!
As
she desired to spend her life in heaven doing good on earth (including praying
for a notorious murder who was later converted), let us ask St. Therese to pray
that we may love greatly in small things.
St.
Therese of Lisieux, pray for us!
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