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I ADORE the Little Flower. Once I was surfing the net, looking for inspiration, and I came across a copy of her autobiography online. I started reading it, and it was so charming and innocent that I read the whole thing. I cried when she died... Both in gladness and in sadness that her little life was so short. She was so happy when she coughed up blood! Because she knew she was going to be with Jesus soon. But later the doubt and fear crept in.
What a lesson that was to me. Weakness and doubt strengthen me in an odd way. Because when *I'M* feeling weakness and doubt, I know that even the Little Flower, even the Holy Father have their moments of doubt and fear. That it's normal and natural and that it's something to be borne and that it will pass. And I can use that to comfort others who think they are doing wrong when they experience times in the spiritual desert.
What an inspiration she must have been to our great John Paul II through all the years he bore his infirmities with dignity and grace and good humor. I hadn't really understood why she was a Doctor of the Church, but the more I reflect and live my life in such a way in which I BEAR my suffering instead of whining and complaining about it and breaking down (which I'm occasionally able to do), the more I understand her doctrine.
Thank you for the opportunity to share my feelings and thoughts about Sainte Therese de Liseaux.
| Lk 10:17-24 | ||
|---|---|---|
| # | Douay-Rheims | Vulgate |
| 17 | And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying: Lord, the devils also are subject to us in thy name. | reversi sunt autem septuaginta duo cum gaudio dicentes Domine etiam daemonia subiciuntur nobis in nomine tuo |
| 18 | And he said to them: I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven. | et ait illis videbam Satanan sicut fulgur de caelo cadentem |
| 19 | Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and upon all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt you. | ecce dedi vobis potestatem calcandi supra serpentes et scorpiones et supra omnem virtutem inimici et nihil vobis nocebit |
| 20 | But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you: but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven. | verumtamen in hoc nolite gaudere quia spiritus vobis subiciuntur gaudete autem quod nomina vestra scripta sunt in caelis |
| 21 | In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight. | in ipsa hora exultavit Spiritu Sancto et dixit confiteor tibi Pater Domine caeli et terrae quod abscondisti haec a sapientibus et prudentibus et revelasti ea parvulis etiam Pater quia sic placuit ante te |
| 22 | All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him. | omnia mihi tradita sunt a Patre meo et nemo scit qui sit Filius nisi Pater et qui sit Pater nisi Filius et cui voluerit Filius revelare |
| 23 | And turning to his disciples, he said: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. | et conversus ad discipulos suos dixit beati oculi qui vident quae videtis |
| 24 | For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them. | dico enim vobis quod multi prophetae et reges voluerunt videre quae vos videtis et non viderunt et audire quae auditis et non audierunt |