St. Therese lived in the presence of the Blessed Mother
when fulfilling the most important act of the day: receiving Holy Communion.
This was her method of preparing:
I picture to
myself my soul as an open field from which I ask the Blessed Virgin to remove
the obstacles which are my imperfections…At the moment of Communion, I
sometimes imagine my soul is a child of three or four years, who has just come
from play, hair disheveled, and clothes disorderly and soiled. These are the
injuries that I meet in combating with souls…. Then comes the Blessed Virgin
and in a moment makes me respectable looking and fit to assist at the Banquet
of the Angels without shame (Autobiography,
254)
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