![]() ![]() ![]() 'Why all this acclaim for Therese, who was a little middle-class girl from France at the end of the 19th century? The Centenary of her death, 1897-1997, was celebrated all over the globe. Therese of Lisieux "the greatest saint of modern times," and in 1997, Pope John Paul II declared Thorase a Doctor of the Church, citing the timeliness of her doctrine and the wisdom and practicality with which she grasped the Gospel message. Saint Therese of Lisieux: Her Family, Her God, Her Message, by Bernard Bro, O.P. For more information, click on the image. O'Connor writes of the "rough, unpolished details" of Therese's life and milieu in a way that brings her to life as a real girl who faced the same choices young adults face today. Therese, one of the few books about Therese of genuine interest to teenagers and adults. ![]() Therese of Lisieux: A Biographyby Patricia O'Connor is a brief, carefully researched, and powerful introduction to St. Reading it deepened immeasurably my understanding of Therese's own story of her soul and of the human and spiritual context in which God showed her such graces. At the beginning of her memoir Therese wrote "It is not, then, my life properly so-called that I am going to write it is my thoughts on the graces God has granted to me." Bishop Gaucher, a Carmelite friar and foremost authority on Therese, has written the life Therese did not write. The Story of a Life, Guy Gaucher's outstanding biography of Therese, is an indispensable setting for Therese's own Story of a Soul. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |