THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX: A VOCATION OF LOVE

The great laws of science do not exist because one day a scholar discovers and formulates their reality. They were there immutable after the creation of the world. The same is so in the spiritual world.

Thérèse Martin invented nothing. She simply relied on the Gospel and brought to light a principle of an ever present force and she did so with utter simplicity.

Young people of every age will acknowledge within themselves their most basic and generous aspirations. Those who have some experience of God's ways well know that beyond research, human judgments, failings and beyond the finest accomplishments, it is the function of the unique Love lived by all the saints that makes a person to take up a veritable burden and bear even what seems most burdensome.

Thérèse is a lesson to all of spiritual greatness to be achieved by perfect love of God and total consecration of all our actions, even the smallest to His greater honor and glory.