St. Therese of Lisieux Novena

I would like to include this link to a novena to St. Therese, as I posted a quote by her a few weeks ago. God Bless, 

 http://www.ewtn.com/therese/novena_printer.htm#pray

St. Alphonsus de Ligouri

"Perfection is founded entirely on the love of God: "Charity is the bond of perfection;" and perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's: "The principal effect of love is so to unite the wills of those who love each other as to make them will the same things." It follows then, that the more one unites his will with the divine will, the greater will be his love of God. Mortification, meditation, receiving Holy Communion, acts of fraternal charity are all certainly pleasing to God -- but only when they are in accordance with his will. When they do not accord with God's will, he not only finds no pleasure in them but he even rejects them utterly and punishes them."

  -Uniformity With God's Will (by St. Alphonsus de Ligouri)

St. Therese of Lisieux

"'Because you have an extremely simple soul; however, it will be even more simple when you become perfect. The closer we come to God, the more simple we become.' 

"How right she was; it was because I was so simple that I found it so difficult to lay open my sould to anyone, but this did not make it any less of a martyrdom. To-day I can express myself without the slightest difficulty, and without losing any of my simplicity. 

"Jesus, as I siad, has been my Spiritual Director. No sooner had Fr. Pichon undertaken the care of my soul than his Superiors sent him off to Canada; reduced to recieving only one letter a year, the little flower which had been transplanted to the mountain of Carmel soon turned to the Director of directors, and she blossomed in the shadow of His cross, having His tears and His Precious Blood for a refreshing dew, and His adorable Face for the son. 

"I had not realised till then the richness of the treasures hidden in His adorable Face, and it was you who taught me how to find them; you, the first to penetrate the mysteries of love hidden in our Beloved's Face, just as you were the first of us to enter Carmel; you revealed them to me now, and I understood - understood more than ever before that here was true glory! He whose 'Kingdom is not of this world' taught me that the only royalty that counts consists in 'being willing to be ignored and despised,' and to 'find one's joy in self-contempt'"

-The Story of A Soul: A New Translation of the Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux (by Michael Day, Cong. Orat.)

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- CCC (glossary) 

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