SAINT THERESE OF LISIEUX
Born January 2, 1873 in Aleson, France
Entered the Carmelite Convent at age fifteen in Lisieux, France
Canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 17, 1925
Declared Doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II in 1997
Died on September 30,1897
Saint Therese (the little Flower of Jesus) lived each day with unshakable confidence in God s love
and was gifted with great intimacy with God by living a simple life of Prayer.
She said. "My mission - to make God loved - will begin after my death". " I will spend my life doing
good on earth, I will let fall a shower of roses".
Her spirituality is doing the ordinary with extraordinary love. She wrote "What matters in life is not great
deeds but great love!"
Book to consider reading - - "Everything Is Grace" by Joseph F. Schmidt, FSC
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