They are 1.) the importance of a holy family life; 2.) the “Little Way” of St. Thérèse; 3.) devotion to the Virgin Mary; 4.) ...

Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, or Saint Thérèse of Lisieux was born January 2, 1873 in Alençon, France to pious parents, both of whom were declared venerable by Pope John Paul II.

[St. Theresa of Lisieux] In the last months of her life, Therese reflected on commingling of this abandonment and suffering. "Our Lord really died as a Victim of Love, and you see what his agony was." ...

Before he left for a Trappist abbey, Merton spent three terms at St. Bonaventure, whose campus stretches to the Allegheny foothills, where he climbed frequently to find silence and prayer.

"I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth." [St. Therese of Lisieux, The Final Conversations, tr. John Clarke (Washington: ICS, 1977), 102.]" 2683. "The witnesses who have preceded us into ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski In Youngstown, Ohio, a large portrait of St. Therese of Lisieux, a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun, hung in the bedroom of Joseph and Mary Tokasz Ferenchak.