What have these 4 got in common? SUFFERERS ALASKA AIRLINE PILOTS AUSTRALIA PATRON SAINT.
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Transcript of What have these 4 got in common? SUFFERERS ALASKA AIRLINE PILOTS AUSTRALIA PATRON SAINT.
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
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!'
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...'
'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
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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