Thérèse recognized and gave thanks for God’s mercies, but can we say that she repaid the Lord for his mercies? Every August, the Dominican student brothers take a week-long silent retreat. During the last retreat, I read The Story of a Soul for the first time. What I noticed is that gratitude runs through Thérèse’s [...]
Our need for affirmation in the workplace easily takes the place of Jesus, who alone can free us and give us the grace to crush the idols we keep on our desks. We need to receive His easy yoke and reclaim our identities as children of God. Relentless ambition surrounded me when I lived in [...]
Saint Thérèse was a realist. In her childhood, she often took the smallest things to heart, to the point of shedding tears. This aspect of her childhood seems to have left its mark on her spiritual doctrine of the Little Way. It shows how humility and profound “littleness” lead the soul to embrace God profoundly. [...]