Seventh day of the novena to St. Therese.
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St. Simon Salus left the desert to live amongst prostitutes and outcasts in Syria. The stories of the desert fathers captured the heart of Little Therese, discovering in the simplicity of their lives, the compliment to the doctrine of her 'little way'. One story I love is something she once confided to one of her novices, Marie of the Trinity:
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"To help me accept a humiliation, she once confided to me: 'If I had not been accepted in Carmel, I would have entered a Refuge (for fallen women) and lived out my days there, unknown and despised among the poor penitents. I would have been happy to be taken as one of them, and would have become an apostle among them, telling them what I thought of God's mercy.'" - Therese By Those Who Knew Her
i love your Therese quotes and insights! :)
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ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of what wrote about wishing she could go to Hell so that someone would love Jesus there. It was incredibly abstract, however, and doesn't quite have the power of the similar desire to love Jesus in a Refuge.