-Scripture: Thank you, Kathleen
Matthew:7 verses 13-14 enter by the narrow gate.
“Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life and those who find it are few.”
-Quote of a Carmelite Saint-St. Therese of Lisieux-For the 150th anniversary of the birth of St.Therese
Advent with St. Therese of Lisieux-Susan Hines-Brigger, Franciscan media (adapted for the current liturgical season). Thank you, Carmelite Nuns.
“I am a very little soul, who can only offer very little things to Our Lord.” St Therese of Lisieux
Prayer:
“St. Therese, your little ways are a shining example to all of us that we too, can live as God wants. Help us to remember that in our own little ways we are helping to build up the kingdom of God.”
–Discalced Carmelites, Our Lady of the Incarnation Monastery-Carmelite Nuns Sioux City, Iowa– website: https://www.siouxcitycarmel.org/
“To become an enclosed Religious is not, as many think, to selfishly escape from the world’s burden. On the contrary, it is to take up the world’s burden. The Carmelite retires from the world in order to work for the world more effectually. Her motive is the very opposite of selfishness, for it is self-giving love — love of her Divine Lord, and love of all the world. Her work is to cooperate with the Passion of Christ offering herself with Him and in Him for the salvation of sinners. It is ‘to love for those who do not know how to love, to pray for those who do not know how to pray, and to suffer for those who do not know how to suffer’.”
Fr. G. J. MacGillivray