The writing-desk of St. Therese to visit the diocese of Orange, California

 

The writing-desk of St. Therese of Lisieux will be oresent at the 8th Annual Orange County Catholic Prayer Breakfast on the morning of Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at the Future Christ Cathedral, 12141 Lewis Street, Garden Grove, CA  92840.  More than a thousand guests are expected at the breakfast.  Father Andrew Small, OMI, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States, will speak from a pulpit where Venerable Fulton Sheen once preached.  See the full details of the event.

After that, the writing-desk will be exposed for public veneration at the Future Christ Cathedral that same day, Wednesday, September 18, from 12 noon through 10 p.m. that night, and again from 6:00 a.m. through 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, September 18.  Before making plans to come and pray in the presence of the writing-desk, please be sure to consult this detailed brochure with hours, events, liturgies, and places.

See photos of the event courtesy of the Pontifical Mission Societies.

 Venerable Fulton Sheen and Saint Therese of Lisieux

 

In 1973, the centenary of St. Therese's birth, Archbishop Sheen preached a series of sermons about her at the Carmelite church in Dublin.  His book "St. Therese: A Treasured Love Story" contains much of the text of these sermons.  For information, click on the image at left.

  You can hear Venerable Fulton Sheen's sermons about St. Therese on the CD "The Spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux: Talks on the Life of St. Therese."  For information, click on the image at right. 

 

 

 

 

You can hear the first sermon Archbishop Sheen preached in Ireland about St. Therese by listening first to this 10-minute video

 

and then to this two-minute video. which completes the sermon: :