My Special Devotion...

Every day I went to Communion and talked with Jesus for a long time,
but my special devotion was the Virgin.
I told her everything.
From that day on the earth no longer held any attraction for me...

~Diary, St. Teresa of Jesus of the Andes 

 

 

The Fruit of Love

 

 Here in the tiny Host I find the fruit of love...

-- St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face

 

Perfection...

 

 

I am the Handmaid of the Lord...

 

And the angel said to her in reply,

"The Holy Spirit will come upon you,

and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

Therefore the child to be born

will be called holy, the Son of God.

And behold, Elizabeth, your relative,

has also conceived a son in her old age,

and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;

for nothing will be impossible for God."

Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word."

Then the angel departed from her.

(Lk 1:30-38)

 

 

 

Mission Statement #2

In Heaven my mission will be to draw souls by helping them go out of themselves to cling to God by a wholly simple and loving movement, and to keep them in this great silence within -- that will allow God to communicate Himself to them and transform them into Himself.

-- St. Elizabeth

Mission Statement #1

My mission - to make God loved - will begin after my death.  I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses.

-- St. Therese

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