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PERTB, WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 9, 1946.
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*Mlhy 5t. Zherese i's patroness op lVissiong On the Feast of the Annunciation, 1888, the doors of the Carmelite Convent of Lisieux closed upon the one whom it was to give to the world as a saint only thirty-seven years later. Soon after the clothing ceremony another cross was given Therese to shoulder. Her father was stricken with paralysis and had to be removed to a private asylum, where he remained for three years. After that time he again returned to Lisieux, where he - died three years later.
Special Interest for Australia
A "Little Way" that Sanctifies Daily Life While her sisters were praying for her For many- years Australia has had as recovery, suddenly, as Therese writes ., patrons Our Lady, Help of in her autobiography, " the statue ( of Christians ,and St. Francis Xavier. In the Immaculate Conception) became 1925 a new saint was canonised, St. animated and radiantly beautiful — Therese of the infant Jesus. She was with a divine beauty that no words of proclaimed the Patroness of all Ca• mine can ever convey." Our Lady thodic Missions and of Australia. The had saved her from death by her inter"Little Flower." as she called herself, cession. has therefore a special interest in our The next major event in the life of country . St. Therese was her First Holy ComJanuary- 2, 1873, at Alencon , in munion, the day on which she receiv. France, was the birthday of th's loving ed for the first time her Divine Master. saint. Her parents were very good, She felt, on that day, that there were God-fearing people. Louis Martin had, no longer two, but that she had disapbefore his marriage to Zelie Guerin, peared like a single drop of water in offered himself to God and had even the immensity of the ocean. Only one gone to the monastery of the gnat remained, Jesus, the King and Lord. 5t. Bernard to ask admission, bu', had been refused. Likewise Mrs Martin Shortiv after her first Communion, had tried to join the Sisters of CharTherese happened to hear that a notority, but had been told that it seemed ious criminal, named Pranzini, had God wished her to remain in the world. been condemner) to death. What made y'lie had then turned her thoughts to his case all the worse was that he was the Sacra:uent of holy Matrimony, and impenitent and it was feared that he had prayed God to make her the would be eternally lost. She determother of many children and to grant mined to beg heaven to pardon this unthat each of them might be consecrathappy soul. What was her joy when, ed to Him. She became the wife of nn opening the newspaper the following Louis Martin in the Church of Notre day, she found what she desired I Name, Alencon, Judy 12, 1858. Without confession or absolution PranThe holy union of these two pious zini had ascended the scaffold and as people was blessed with nine children. he was being dragged to the block he Pour of these were taken back by -udrlenly seized the crucifix, being held God during their infancy. The other towards him by a priest, and kissed five all became nuns, four Carmelites the Sacred Wounds three times. The and one a Visitation -Sister. All the desired sign had been given. Therese children, toys and girls alike, were dehad begun her work for souls, that dicated to the Immaculate Conception work she was to develop to such an exof Our Lady and all received her name tent that even on her death-bed she in Baptism. The last-born was named was to proclaim her intention of con\faric Francoise Therese, or, as we tinuing to work for souls in heaven: j know her, simply Therese. Her birth do not intend to remain inactive in was God's answer to fervent prayers heaven: I intend to go on working for for a son, whom Mr. and Mrs. Martin the Church and for souls." destined to be a missionary priest of In 1R97, ,when she was fourteen, Ther• God. Little did they know what a esc made up her mind to enter Carml. great missioner and apostle this, their She decided to carry out her resolution last child, was to become. before the Christmas of that year, but it was- not until the April of the next Up to the age of four, Therese led that the dories of Carmel of Lisieux the life of anormal child in a Christian eventnally closer) behind her. There home. She was happy and gay, as were many obstacles to her entrance. most children of that age are. It was the principal ones being her age and at this time that she first became ac. her departure from her father, who quainted with sorrow in the death of had already sacrificed his two eldest her mother. After the funeral, the daughters to the cloister. The second family moved from Alencon to Lisieux, of these -was easily surmounted, but the where Therese was to remain, except first proved to be a very great hindfor one short interval, for the rest of rance. The Superior of the Carmelher life. At the age of ten she was ites did not wish to 'receive her at such taken with a strange sickness. On two an early age. Ile would, however, occasions it was actually thought she change his opinion and allow her to would die. Her cure was wrought enter if the Bishop thought it wise. Acthrough the intercession of Our Lady.
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companied by her father, Therese set out for the city of Ray-eux to consult the Bishop there. Ile received them very kindly, but said that he would give his answer only after consulting the Superior of the Carmelites. At this Therese was very upset, but she resolved to lay her proposal before His Holiness Pope Leo YTII., whom she ,• as soon to visit on a pilgrimage to Rome. The Pope's answer was that if God wished her to enter she would do so, but in His good time. Having returned home, Therese pass. ed her time in waiting and praying for the desired permission. It arrived towards the end of the year 1347. The Bishop allowed her immediate entry but the Rev. Mother of the convent decided not to accept her until after the Lent of 1888.
Sister Therese of the Infant Jesus and of the Holy Face, as Therese was now called, took her religious vows on Our Lady's Birthday, September 8, 1890. From this time to her death, seven years later, the Little Flower laboured to increase her love for God and to teach her "little way" to others. Her way, as she herself declared, was not that of many of the great saints-one of great mortification and austerity. It is summed up in the words of Our Lord: " Unless you become as little children...:" It was from her faithfulness to her practices of love for God and self-denial that she gained that zeal for souls which marks her out as one of the greatest missionary saints. Australia must at all costs be won for Christ. There are so many organisations in Australia working for the anti. Christ that it is our dirty to take special pains to raise aloft the standards of Christ and His Church. To do this 6se must remember to call upon the aid of St. Therese, Patroness of Australia. St. Therese of the Child Jesus, pray for us and our land Australia.— Rev. T, Lees, S.J. Do you wish to'help educate a priest for work in Western Australia? Make a regular annual contribution to help an indigent student.
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