[NYer]

"After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses. I will spend my heaven doing good upon earth. I will raise up a mighty host of little saints. My mission is to make God loved..."
St. Therese of Lisieux

[alexander_busek]

Pope Francis’ devotion for the Carmelite mystic who died at the young age of 24 in 1987 1897 [...]

She died on September 30, 1897.

Regards,

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Gotta love it. Sure is nice when it’s just beauty in an article.

[mlizzy]

So good to hear the Pope speak of white roses. We just moved into a new rental Sept. 1-2, because our landlady, for all practical purposes, was evicting us (or was planning to; she was all lawyered-up). We had only lived there one month (we moved in December, 2012) when she told us to leave. We stretched it out to nine months, but even at that, it was a nightmare. We thought we might sue her for harassment (we had proof and it was ugly), but our priest said it's never good for a Catholic to sue another Catholic, not to mention we were exhausted enough trying to find a place for two dogs, two cats, two kids, and ourselves. So we did what we always do, and that's call upon St. Therese (along with St. Joseph, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the saint of the day), and prayed a perpetual novena to them daily for months. So when we finally got this new place (it was a horror of missed this and thats up until the day we actually moved), we wondered if there might be some roses somewhere (however we usually look for red).

But lo and behold, in the back yard, there indeed was a white rose bush growing, when everything else had petered out all around it. And then on Sept. 13, my husband purchased me the roses shown in the image (and here it is two weeks later and not one petal has dropped). Also the water is clear as a bell (and has been for 3-4 days); not stagnant or cloudy. I change it just because it seems the right thing to do. And look at all the new growth on the stems! So those who say St. Therese doesn't answer with roses, we just smile and say, sure, right... :)

[LovedSinner]

Oh yes, there will be lots of peace in Syria. 100,000 civilians have died, and now chemical weapons are considered okay to have used without punishment.

The Pope should do the honorable thing and resign.

[old and tired]

Great story - However, the poor Pope is going to have white roses coming out of his ears now that this is public information. LOL

The White Rose was the name of a resistance movement co-founded by devout Catholics and Lutherans in Nazi Germany. Interesting coincidence?