St therese of lisieux miracles of allah
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Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the “Little Flower”) died on September 30th, 1897, in her Carmel in Lisieux, Normandy, France. She was only 24 years old. Upon her canonization, her feast-day was set on October 3rd. In the 1970 Calendar Reform of Pope Paul VI, however, her feast was transferred to October 1st.
There exists a significant connection between St. Thérèse and the Carmelite martyrs of the French Revolution, July 17th, 1794, which offers, in a way, “the rest of the story.”
The story with its providential co-incidences may be outlined as follows.
During the German invasion of 1870 the Carmelite Sisters of Lisieux had joined the flow of refugees. At Rennes, they had encountered Carmelites from the storied Compiègne Carmel, also refugees. There began aunion fraternellebetween the two Carmels from that time. This special relationship was sealed when the Li
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St. Therese of Lisieux, Pope Benedict & The Miracle at Lourdes
On the night I arrived at Lourdes, I made my way to an English language Mass. Facing the Grotto on the far side of the river Gave was a modern church, concrete and ascetically uninspiring, however, within minutes of walking into its packad auditorium a voice called my name, and turning I saw some familiar faces.
It was a family I had known back in England. They were not vacationing at Lourdes, just passing through, staying over the border in Spain. They were not supposed to have attended that particular Mass but somehow their plans had derailed and had ended up there nonetheless. And so we were reunited.
Afterwards we retired to a restaurant overlooking the Gave. The hostelry was an excellent choice: the food, the wine, the setting – but there proved to be another facet of that evening much more memorable.
The family consisted of two married lawyers with three small boys. He Catholic, she nominally Angli
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St. Therese Of Lisieux Shows Us It Is Ok To Have Questions
St. Therese of Lisieux, as many of her letters show, questioned the way things worked in life. There is way too much suffering in life. People, even when they knew what they should be doing, found things were put in their way, preventing them from doing what they should, causing great amounts of stress and anxiety as a result. This was especially true for her during the time she was trying to be accepted as a nun. And yet, despite the way her life was going, despite the grief she felt, she never lost a sense of the joy which she also had in her, the joy that Jesus gave to her. She could, like all of us, complain about her pain and sorrows, and ask why she had them. And she did with a great sense of innocence, something which many of us do not have when we ask those questions later in life. She accepted that life could be and would be filled with sacrifices. While she wondered why, she did not let them detour her from her