Thank you Father! Please commend my niece Stephanie, today's her birthday, her husband Christopher, and their 2 little girls, Sophie & Grace to St. Therese. God reward you.
"St Therèse of the Infant Jesus and the Holy Face."🌹 Father, it took many years for me to learn of her full chosen name in religion, why she chose this Name - and... its connection with the Pious Union of the Holy Face. Blessed Feast Day, St Therese!🙏🕯️🌹
Before she entered the convent at age 15, St. Teresa, the Little Flower, experienced a time of excessive anxiety and introspection - fearing that even her thoughts could lead to eternal damnation. When she was 12 years old in 1885 she attended a retreat, the theme of which was “Better to die than sully one’s soul with a mortal sin.” The titles of the retreat conferences that Theresa heard were “Hell, Judgment, Mortal Sin, The Necessity of Making a Good Confession, and Sacrilegious Communion.” Theresa wrote: “What the priest told us was frightening. He spoke about mortal sin, and he described a soul in the state of sin and how much God hated it.” And she wrote: “One would have to pass through this martyrdom (suffering) to understand it well, and for me to express what I experienced for a year and a half would be impossible.” And Teresa continued to suffer even in the monastery. Numerous preachers of spiritual retreats at that time were infected with the heresy of Jansenism and preached fire and brimstone, stressing sin, and the sufferings of purgatory and of hell. This did not help Teresa who in 1891 experienced “great inner trials of all kinds, even wondering sometimes whether heaven existed.” One phrase she heard during a retreat made her weep: “No one knows if they are worthy of love or of hate.” But in October 1891, a sermon preached by a Franciscan priest gave Teresa a great comfort. She wrote: “His preaching on abandonment to God’s mercy expanded my heart...” So Teresa received a grace from God that liberated her from crippling “over sensitivity.” And the emotional difficulties she endured would enable her to counsel the Lisieux Carmel’s novices with wisdom beyond her years: “God our Father loves us always, absolutely, unfailingly, eternally.”
Beautiful ,story, a favorite Saint of mine, so pure,holy, perfect and pure love for Jesus……Thank you Father for your narration…
God bless you Father Carney. Your work honors Our Lord in every way. Thank you for this beautiful reading of the little flower. 🙏
Now I understand her epithet "the Little Flower". Thanks! ✝️
Thank you Fr. Carney!
This makes me so happy! God bless!
Thank you.
Bless you father, thank you so much for opening our hearts and minds. 🙏🏼💖🕊
Thank you Fr. Carney
Thank u 🙏 n God Bless u! 🌹🌹🌹
Thank you Father! Please commend my niece Stephanie, today's her birthday, her husband Christopher, and their 2 little girls, Sophie & Grace to St. Therese. God reward you.
Happy birthday Stephanie!
"St Therèse of the Infant Jesus and the Holy Face."🌹
Father, it took many years for me to learn of her full chosen name in religion, why she chose this Name - and... its connection with the Pious Union of the Holy Face.
Blessed Feast Day, St Therese!🙏🕯️🌹
Beautifully done 🙏🇨🇦 Thank you
Thanks
Before she entered the convent at age 15, St. Teresa, the Little Flower, experienced a time of excessive anxiety and introspection - fearing that even her thoughts could lead to eternal damnation. When she was 12 years old in 1885 she attended a retreat, the theme of which was “Better to die than sully one’s soul with a mortal sin.” The titles of the retreat conferences that Theresa heard were “Hell, Judgment, Mortal Sin, The Necessity of Making a Good Confession, and Sacrilegious Communion.” Theresa wrote: “What the priest told us was frightening. He spoke about mortal sin, and he described a soul in the state of sin and how much God hated it.” And she wrote: “One would have to pass through this martyrdom (suffering) to understand it well, and for me to express what I experienced for a year and a half would be impossible.”
And Teresa continued to suffer even in the monastery. Numerous preachers of spiritual retreats at that time were infected with the heresy of Jansenism and preached fire and brimstone, stressing sin, and the sufferings of purgatory and of hell. This did not help Teresa who in 1891 experienced “great inner trials of all kinds, even wondering sometimes whether heaven existed.” One phrase she heard during a retreat made her weep: “No one knows if they are worthy of love or of hate.”
But in October 1891, a sermon preached by a Franciscan priest gave Teresa a great comfort. She wrote: “His preaching on abandonment to God’s mercy expanded my heart...” So Teresa received a grace from God that liberated her from crippling “over sensitivity.” And the emotional difficulties she endured would enable her to counsel the Lisieux Carmel’s novices with wisdom beyond her years: “God our Father loves us always, absolutely, unfailingly, eternally.”
JESUS SAVE US
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I also kinda avoid her for similar reasons but every time I watch something about her a melt inside.