Back to the weekly, aimed at the discovery of our beloved saints! Today we discover St. Therese of Lisieux (also known as St. Therese of Lisieux), virgin and doctor of the Church: a teenager entered the Caramel of Lisieux in France, became for purity and simplicity of life master of holiness in Christ, teaching the way of 'spiritual childhood to attain perfection, Christian mystic and placing every care to serve the salvation of souls and the Church's growth.
She is a shining example of true faith and also of great Christian wisdom to the point of being cited by almost all the saints who lived after her, as St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori.
discover the history of this Holy well loved and known, through the usual biographical section, followed by some of his holy thoughts, to show us his face:
Biography
He climbs up to the Duomo in Milan on Madonna, the Tower of Pisa, and Rome goes even prohibited in places of the Colosseum. The fourteen year old Teresa Martin is the figure most attractive of the French pilgrims arrived in Rome at the end of 1887 to the sacerdotal jubilee of Leo XIII. But the papal audience to the whole group, terrified the bishops directly asking the Pope to be able to join a monastery immediately, before the age of 18. Cautious is the response of Leo XIII, but after four months Teresa entered the Caramel of Lisieux, where her two sisters have preceded it (and she will not be the last one). The
Martin Alençon: small and prosperous middle class of skilled labor. The father learned watchmaking in Switzerland. The mother directs lace makers who make the famous home Alençon lace. Accounts in order, punctuality of payment as the legendary Mass esteemed. Is compatible to many deaths in the family: four deaths among the nine children. Then the mother died when Teresa was only four years. In
monastery took the name Sister Teresa of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, but not the island of holiness that was expected. All accurate, all in order. But the substance is poor. The superior does not understand, someone mistreats. The spirit that she was looking for, just not there, but instead of mourning the absence, Teresa gives birth to himself. And if he carries out the reform of the monastery. Stimuli of sanctification becomes ill, mediocrity, distortions, restoring joy in exchange for the offenses.
It 'a mystic who rejects the pious isolation. Do they suffer? And she is one that "can make you die laughing at recess," as the superior must admit its spirited. Then in 1897 she has already died, after less than un decennio di vita religiosa oscurissima. Ma è da morta che diviene protagonista, apostola, missionaria. Sua sorella Paolina (suor Agnese nel Carmelo) le ha chiesto di raccontare le sue esperienze spirituali, che escono in volume col titolo Storia di un’anima nel 1898. Così la voce di questa carmelitana morta percorre la Francia e il mondo, colpisce gli intellettuali, suscita anche emozioni e tenerezze popolari che Pio XI corregge raccomandando al vescovo di Bayeux: "Dite e fate dire che si è resa un po’ troppo insipida la spiritualità di Teresa. Com’è maschia e virile, invece! Santa Teresa di Gesù Bambino, di cui tutta la dottrina predica la rinuncia, è un grand’uomo". Ed è lui che la canonizza in 1925. Not only
. In 1929, while in the USSR Stalin triumphs, Pius XI already created the College Russicum in order to train priests for the apostolate in Russia, when things change. Even then. And as a patron of this challenge means just you, Sister Teresa of the Child Jesus.
Author: Domenico Agassi
*** Thoughts of St. Therese:
"Jesus calls those who are worthy, but the ones they want."
"I understand that the love of our Lord is all the more simple soul, who can not resist at all with his grace, as in the most sublime is actually just love fall.
"As the sun illuminates the cedars at the same time and each flower as if it was only on earth, our Lord also deals, in particular of every soul as if it had no other like it."
"There are many degrees in the perfection and every soul is free to respond to the proposals of our Lord, to do much or little to him: I am not afraid to suffer for Thee, O Lord. I do not fear one thing: keep my will. Take it, because I choose anything you want. "
" After seven years I should be sorry to sleep during the prayer and thanksgiving: Well I do not mind. I think that young children will appeal to both parents when sleep, and when they are awake, I think that to perform, doctors and their patients fall asleep. "
" I've noticed many times that Jesus does not want to give me supplies, feeds me every moment with a fresh food, I find it in me without knowing how this is. "
" To attain perfection not know any other means love. Love: our hearts are made for this. "
" If I were a priest I would have studied Hebrew and greek, to read the Word of God with the same human language with which he wished to speak. "
"When the charity has thrown deep roots in the soul shows itself outside: there is un modo così gentile di rifiutare ciò che non si può dare, che il rifiuto fa piacere quanto il dono".
"La carità perfetta consiste nel sopportare i difetti degli altri e nel non meravigliarsi delle loro debolezze".
Preghiera di Santa Teresa:
Signore Gesù, tu hai dato la vita per me: io voglio donare la mia a te. Signore Gesù, tu hai detto: «Amore più grande non c'è che dare la vita per gli amici». Il mio supremo amore sei tu. È sera. Il giorno ormai declina. Resta con me Signore. Voglio seguirti portando la mia croce. Signore, vieni in mio aiuto e guidami nel cammino. La tua voce, Signore, ha un'eco profonda nel mio heart. Jesus, my Lord and my God, I want to be exactly like you, I want to suffer and die with you to achieve with you the joy of resurrection. You, that great God who loves the world, live in me day and night. And your voice always begs me and tells me: "I thirst, I thirst for love"! I also want to repeat your divine prayer: I thirst for love. I thirst for love! Satisfy my hope, increase in me, O Lord, your ardor divine. I thirst for love! What suffering, my God, how great! How I wish you fly! Your love, O Jesus, is my only martyrdom, because it burns more love, more love you want my soul. Jesus, 'I die of love for you!
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