O Dia De Santa Teresinha Do Menino Jesus
Santa teresinha do menino jesus, doutora da infância espiritual. santa teresinha do menino jesus nasceu em alençon (frança), no dia 02 de janeiro de 1873. morreu no dia 30 de setembro de 1897, com apenas 24 anos e 271 dias. nascida em uma família de ótimas condições financeiras e temente a deus, seus pais (luís e zélia) tiveram oito. Santa teresinha do menino jesus tinha um ardente desejo missionário e disse que entrou no carmelo para salvar almas. e assim o foi, a ponto de ser proclamada padroeira das missões. O próprio Jesus lhe mostrou como haveria de viver esta vocação: praticando em plenitude o mandamento do amor, haveria de imergir no coração mesmo da missão da Igreja, sustentando os anunciadores do Evangelho com a força misteriosa da oração e da comunhão. Assim, ela realizava o que é ressaltado pelo Concílio Vaticano II, quando ensina que a Igreja é missionária por natureza (cf. Ad gentes 2). Não só aqueles que optam pela vida missionária, mas todos os batizados são, de algum modo, enviados ad gentes.
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Saint Therese of the child Jesus
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux is perhaps one of the most known and best loved saints in the Catholic tradition. Generations of Catholics have admired this young saint, called her the "Little Flower", and found in her short life more inspiration for their own lives than in volumes by theologians.
Yet Therese died when she was 24, after having lived as cloistered Carmelite for less than ten years. She never went on missions, never founded a religious order, never performed great works. The only book of hers, published after her death, was an brief edited version of her journal called "Story of a Soul." (Collections of her letters and restored versions of her journals have been published recently.) But within 28 years of her death, the public demand was so great that she was canonized.
St. Therese of Lisieux, better known as St. Therese of the child Jesus was born Marie Francoise Therese Martin. She felt an early call to religious life, and overcoming various obstacles, in 1888 at the age of 15, became a Nun and joined two of her elder sisters in the cloistered Carmelite Community of Lisieux, Normandy. A collection of her autobiographical manuscripts, called “The Story of a Soul”, was printed and distributed a year after her death. They had a huge impact, and she rapidly became one of the most popular saints of the twentieth century. Pope Pius XI beatified her in 1923, and she was canonized in 1925. Pope John Paul II declared her the thirty-third Doctor of the Church, the youngest person, and only the third woman to be so honored.
Therese lived a hidden life, and wanted to be unknown, yet became popular after her death through her spiritual autobiography. She wrote letters, poems, religious plays, prayers, and her fellow Sisters recorded her last conversations, when she was too sick to write herself. The depth of her spirituality according to her own words, “My way is all confidence and Love”. She was responsible, through her writings of inspiring many believers. In the face of her littleness and nothingness, she trusted in God to be her Sanctity. She wanted to go to heaven by an entirely new little way. “I wanted to find an elevator that would raise me to Jesus”. The elevator, she wrote, would be the arms of Jesus lifting her in all her littleness. Therese herself said on her deathbed, “I only love simplicity. I have a horror of pretence”. She spoke out against some of the lives of Saints, written in her day, “We should not say improbable things, or things we do not know. We must see their real, and not imagined lives”. She is well known throughout the world, with the Basilica of Lisieux being the second largest place of Pilgrimage in France, after Lourdes.
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