My Vocation Is Love: Therese of LisieuxSt. Therese of Lisieux attained the summit of love by plumbing the depths of her own powerlessness. Confronted by this powerlessness in the events of everyday life, she abandoned herself more and more to Jesus Christ, the incarnation of God's mercy. In so doing, she received the Savior's healing, and the awareness of being loved by an infinitely merciful Father. We can all recognize our face in that of Therese. Like her, we are poor, finite and often overcome by fear. She can teach us that by following her way of abandonment we also will experience Love. Then we will be able to cry out, with her, in an excess of joy: "My vocation is Love... In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and so I will be everything..." |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Show us the face of your mercy | 21 |
Thérèse discovers her own nothingness | 41 |
Confidence and nothing but confidence | 67 |
Now abandonment alone guides | 81 |
Thérèse discovers a new way | 125 |
At the foot of the stairs | 145 |
Conclusion | 167 |
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9 June act of offering Alphonsus Ligouri anagogical André Frossard arms become Blessed Virgin Carmel child climb comes confidence consolations creature Cross depths desire discover divine earth everything experience expression face faith Father fear feel fire gentleness gifts give God's heart God's love God's mercy Gospel grace heaven holocaust Holy Spirit human humble humility Ignatius of Loyola infinite Jesus prayer lift little sacrifices living look Lord Magnificat Marie means merciful Love misery movement of abandonment mystery never nothingness novices offering to merciful ourselves person poor poverty pray quietism rejoice renounce rough stairway saints sing the mercies sister Céline someone soul speak St Ignatius St John St Paul St Thérèse stairway of perfection strength struggle suffering teach temptation against hope tenderness Teresa of Avila Thérèse of Lisieux Thérèse says Thérèse understood Thérèse's prayer Theresian things Trinity understand vocation weak