Saint Thérèse of Lisieux,
Teacher of the "Little Way,"
Doctor of the Church.
NOVENA ROSE PRAYER TO SAINT THÉRÈSE "THE LITTLE FLOWER"
O Little Thérèse of the Child Jesus, please pick for me a rose
from the heavenly gardens and send it to me as a message of love.
O Little Flower of Jesus, ask God to grant the favors
I now place with confidence in your hands . .
(mention in silence here)
Saint Thérèse, help me to always believe as you did in
God's great love for me, so that I might imitate your "Little Way" each day.
Amen.
SAINT THÉRÈSE ON PRAYER:
"Prayer is, for me, an outburst from the heart; it is a simple glance darted upwards to Heaven; it is a cry of gratitude and of love in the midst of trial as in the midst of joy! In a word, it is something exalted, supernatural, which dilates the soul and unites it to God. Sometimes when I find myself, spiritually, in dryness so great that I cannot produce a single good thought, I recite very slowly a Pater or an Ave Maria; these prayers alone console me, they suffice, they nourish my soul"
(Story of A Soul, Ch. 10).
SAINT THÉRÈSE ON HER "LITTLE WAY" TO HEAVEN:
"We are living now in an age of inventions, and we no longer have to take the trouble of climbing stairs … I wanted to find an elevator which would raise me to Jesus, for I am too small to climb the rough stairway of perfection. … The elevator which must raise me to heaven is Your arms, O Jesus! And for this I had no need to grow up, but rather I had to remain little and become this more and more" (Story of A Soul, Ch. 10).