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Feast Day of St. Therese
October 1st
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St.Therese
Catholic Church,
Courtice,
Ontario
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| On October 1st the Church celebrates the
Feast Day of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, also called St. Therese of Lisieux, but more
popularly known as St. Therese, the Little Flower.
St. Therese was born in 1873 and she died in 1897, over one hundred years
ago, in France at the Carmelite Monastery of Lisieux. The numerous photographs that exist
of her give us a clear picture of her entire life. From a beautiful, lively child, we see
Therese develop into a lovely, young woman and then a courageous, pain-filled Carmelite
Sister offering up her sufferings for the Church, for priests and for the missions before
her death at age 24. |
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| St. Therese believed that her true work
would begin after her death and that, "after my death I will let fall from heaven a
shower of roses."
St. Therese has
since become one of the greatest Saints of |
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the Church, a most powerful
intercessor on our behalf, a remarkable example especially to young people and has been
declared a Doctor of the Church in October 1997.
The Novena to St. Therese is part of the Church's
rich spiritual heritage. "Novena" is the Latin term for a nine day prayer,
originating with the nine days Our Lady and the Apostles waited in the Upper Room between
the Ascension of Our Lord and the Coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. Those who were
gathered there spent the time in prayer as they waited.
Devotion and prayer to St. Therese have
always been most rewarding for the love of God which they generate even in the little
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