Today Double Feast of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin

White Vestments

Missa "Veni de Líbano"

Today we are honoring Saint Therese of Lisieux, also known as "The Little Flower," and Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face and whom Holy Mother Church has called the "Prodigy of Miracles , the Greatest Saint of Modern Times."

Before the age of fifteen Saint Therese already desired to enter the Carmel of Lisieux, where her two eldest sisters were already nuns; a trip to Rome and a petition at the knees of the Holy Father Leo XIII gave her the inalterable answer that her Superiors would regulate the matter. Many prayers finally obtained an affirmative reply to her ardent request, and four months after her fifteenth birthday she entered Carmel with an ineffable joy. She could say then, “I no longer have any desire but to love Jesus even to folly.”

Saint Therese of Lisieux adopted flowers as the symbol of her love for her Divine Spouse and offered all her little daily sacrifices and works as rose petals at the feet of Jesus. Divine Providence gave to the world the autobiography of this true Saint, whose little way of spiritual childhood was described in her own words in her Story of a Soul.

Oremus/Let us pray :

O Lord, Who hast said, unless you become as little children you shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: grant, we beseech Thee, that we may so follow the holy virgin Teresa, in humility and simplicity of heart, that we may attain to an everlasting reward. Who livest and reigns with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, forever and ever.Amen

(Roman Breviary)