"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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