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St. Joseph

Patron of the Universal Church

GENERAL AUDIENCE OF JOHN PAUL II

 

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Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face

Act of Oblation to Merciful Love

“I do not want to lay up merits for heaven.  I want to work for Your Love alone with the one purpose of pleasing You, consoling Your Sacred Heart, and saving souls who will love You eternally.

In the evening of this life, I shall appear before You with empty hands, for I do not ask You, Lord, to count my works.  All our justice is stained in Your eyes.  I wish, then, to be clothed in Your own Justice and to receive from Your Love the eternal possession of Yourself.  I want no other Throne, no other Crown but You, my Beloved!”

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© The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, A Story of a Soul. ICS Publications (page 277)
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Saint Teresa of the Andes

Letter 138, The Divine Office

  ”I would like to speak to you of the Divine Office.  You know that it is the incessant cry that the Church raises to God.  We, the contemplatives, are those entrusted with crying out for the world.  When we are in choir, we’re already like the angels who praise God.  We form part of that angelic choir, and our antiphons are stanzas of that pure and divine poetry.  At those times are we not like the angels who sing in the presence of the tabernacle and console Jesus in His sad prison?  Jesus also sings with His Carmelites.  He raises up to His eternal Father, together with His brides, that

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Saint Teresa of Avila

The Book of Her Life – Chapter 8.8

   “Who can lose confidence?  Fo the Lord endured so much with me only because I desired and strove to have some place and time in order that He might be with me.  And this I often did without eagerness but through my own great struggles or through the strength the Lord Himself gave me.  For if those who do not serve Him but offend Him derive so much good from prayer and find it so necessary.  Why do those who serve God and desire to serve Him abandon it?  I cannot understand why, unless it is that they want to undergo the trials of life with greater trial and close the door on God so that

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St. Teresa of the Andes – Meditation #2

Letter #8 to her sister Rebecca about her vocation

April 15, 1916

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Saint Teresa of the Andes – Letter 16

All the sacrifices we make are small

  “All the sacrifices we make are small in comparison with the value of just one soul.  God gave His life for them and for us.  How careless we are about His salvation!  What are the means fo

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Solemn Novena in honor of the Little Flower

Seek protection for all sinners and beg for them the grace of repentance

September 23nd – October 1st

St. Therese, beautiful flower of the Garden of Carmel, we thank God for your life on earth and embrace you as our sister and advocate in Heaven.  We beseech you, do not forget us for whom you offered your life, prayers, and penance.
Watch over our needs.  Beg grace for us from the merciful hand of God especially for this, our most heart-felt petition ……………….

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This novena is presented by the Carmelite nuns at the Carmel of St. Joseph, in St. Louis, Missouri
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St. Teresa of Jesus – Way of Perfection 26.9

He will inspire you with what to say

”What you can do as a help in this matter of prayer is to try and carry about an image or painting of this Lord that is to your liking, not so as to carry it about on your heart and never loo

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St. Teresa of Jesus – Way of Perfection 26.2-5

I’m not asking you to do anything more than look at Him

“O Sisters, those of you who cannot engage in much discursive reflection with the intellect or keep your mind from distraction, get used to this practice!  Get used to it!  See, I know that y

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