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Thy Kingdom Come...Adveniat Regnum Tuum...Thy Kingdom Come "O Jesus, my love, I have found my place in the bosom of the Church: In the heart of my Mother, I will be love." |
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The Mission of St. ThereseWe live in those days foretold by St. Paul when great disorders shall befall mankind and charity will grow cold. Even among Catholics, and one might say especially among Catholics today, this virtue has been misapplied, misunderstood and has all but disappeared. Over 100 years ago, St. Therese of Liseux wrote: "Love alone imparts life to all the members of [the Mystical Body], so that should love ever fail, apostles would no longer preach the Gospel and martyrs would refuse to shed their blood…Souls that are on fire never can remain inactive." With these words and in her professed longing to be a missionary, St. Therese displayed a clear understanding of the order of love, then; for as the Catechism teaches, one must first know God in order to love and serve Him. Her desire to engage in Catholic Action at the very outset of its existence is ample evidence of the zeal that energized the Little Flowers every waking moment. It was a zeal that had its first beginnings in the bosom of the Martin family, whose religious fervor led to four of the five surviving Martin sisters entering the Carmelite order.
These pages then are dedicated to St. Therese the Rosebud of Heaven, that Divine Truth might excite among men and women love of the Divine King and the establishment of His kingdom on earth.
EVERYTHING -- St. Therese of the Child Jesus |
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St. Therese's "science of love," found in her "little way" is
the most admirable shortcut to piety and charity for
Catholics faced with the heroic sacrifices required in
these times. In order that love exist, all must be apostles, and martyrs in spirit
at least, and each according to God's will for them. For as the Little Flower said
herself: "the eye [of the Mystical Body] cannot be the hand." All have different
tasks as members of this Body, but all must love.