#st therese

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10/03/2025

Happy (belated) feast day of St. Therese of Lisieux (Oct. 1st)!

JOKE-OGRAPHY: This comic is a brief description of one of the most insightful and wholesome young saints I've read about. It begins with her name, then each following panel adds another part of her story... and also adds more parts to her name:

Panel 2 starts with her full Christian name, "Marie Francoise-Therese Martin."

Panel 3 adds her father's nickname for her: "Little Queen."

Panel 4 explains why she's known as "of Lisieux."

Panel 5 describes her religious name, "Sister Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face." It also describes her vocation as a Carmelite nun and, by extension (since they take a vow of celibacy), a virgin.

Panel 6 explains her popular "Little Flower" title.

Panel 7 adds "Doctor of the Church."

And so, by Panel 8, we have collected a glorious monstrosity of a title that I'm sure would have Therese's humble head spinning.

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[meegan-123]

Saint Therese of Lisieux

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

Happy St. Therese Day Everyone!!!

[thegirlintheblackdress]

Dear sister in Heaven ❤️🌹

[papers-pamphlet]

Saint Therese of Lisieux my beloved

[yesterdaywastheonlyeasyday]

A thought in the eternal mind of God

The other day I declared that ‘I was a thought in the eternal mind of God’ to which my wife rolled her eyes as if to say ‘what was He thinking?’

But it’s true; no one is here by accident, not one is unplanned. We do not realise our significance in the plan of God, that we were created to be co-heirs of His kingdom and even though we have no idea what that might look like; it sounds good to me.

It is easy to lose sight of it though, if our lives on earth are not particularly thrilling or important in the eyes of the world or ourselves. But in a way that’s the point; it’s not earned, it’s given and the degree of glory is only measured by the degree of sacrifice or love, not performance in some heroic enterprise or worldly achievement.

St Therese of Lisieux made sanctity available and within reach for all with her discovery of the ‘Little Way’ where every moment of life, pleasant or otherwise, could be sanctified and translated into an act of love by dying to oneself and going against our nature or ‘natural’ responses.

I thought of a good example the other day; when your spouse wants you to go for an evening at the opera, to dress up like a penguin and listen to a 2-hour screaming contest whilst missing the match on telly. What an amazing opportunity to obtain everlasting glory! Instead of going with a face like a galley slave chained to his oar whose vessel is about to be rammed; just bear up and endure it with a smile.

The ladies can make use of their husbands’ faults (if they have any) in the same way and bear sweetly and quietly with them offering any irritation to God for the sake of the kingdom. It’s simple but not easy!

To walk the road to holiness, that is our task, our trial, and only when we become what we were created for will we understand the why, of it all.

Download “The story of a soul” St Therese of Liseux (free download)

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Saint Therese of Lisieux

Doctor of the Church

1873-1897

Feast Day: October 1 (New), October 3 (Trad)

Patronage: Missions

St. Therese of Lisieux was a French Discalced Carmelite nun, popularly known as The Little Flower. She was a highly influential model of sanctity for others because of the "simplicity and practicality of her approach to the spiritual life." She entered Carmel at the early age of 15 and died of tuberculosis at the age of 24. Together with St. Francis of Assisi she is one of the most popular saints in the history of the Church. Pope Pius X called her "the greatest saint of modern times." 

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)