Today
we celebrate the feast of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, who
was proclaimed a Doctor of the Universal Church by St. John Paul II in 1997. In
his proclamation letter, the late Holy Father wrote:
Through
spiritual childhood one experiences that everything comes from God, returns to
him and abides in him, for the salvation of all, in a mystery of merciful love.
Such is the doctrinal message taught and lived by this Saint.
As it was for the Church's Saints in every age, so also for
her, in her spiritual experience Christ is the center and fullness of
Revelation. Thérèse knew Jesus, loved him and made him loved with the passion
of a bride. She penetrated the mysteries of his infancy, the words of his
Gospel, the passion of the suffering Servant engraved on his holy Face, in the
splendor of his glorious life, in his Eucharistic presence. She sang of all the
expressions of Christ's divine charity, as they are presented in the Gospel…
St.
Thérèse, please pray for us today, that we may experience the love of God as
His children.
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