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LITTLE FLOWER NOVENA

(Daniel A. Lord, S.J.)

THIRD DAY

X From the dawn of reason her heart was set upon Carmel. Why Carmel?

Why this life of renunciation and penance?

Why did she long to shut herself away from the world,

to leave family and friends, to become an obscure nun behind the gratings of the cloister?

Because saints always have two great certainties:

the importance of loving God and the need to do penance for sin.

To the Little Flower the cloister of Carmel was the house of God.

There without distractions she felt that she could obey the first and greatest of the commandments:

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart,

and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.”

There too she could, she knew, obey the second of the commandments:

“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

Loving God, she could do penance for the sinners of the world.

Giving God her complete affection,

she could plead for the men and the women who give him no affection.

Herself sinless, she hoped to be able through penance to win forgiveness for the criminal,

the lustful, the cruel, the vicious.

To this little victim of love and sin we pray:

 

The Prayer of Saint Theresa, the Little Flower of Jesus

O God, who hast said,

“unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

(Matt 18:3, JB)

 grant us, we beseech thee, so to follow

in humility and simplicity of heart the footsteps of the virgin blessed Saint Theresa

that we may attain to everlasting reward.

Who livest and reignest with God the Father

 in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

God, world without end.

Amen.

Novena Petition…

 

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X St Theresa the Little Flower of Jesus, Pray for us.

 

 

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