Saint Therese of Lisieux: A Gateway

Thank you for this site. I am currently a M. Div candidate and am working on a presentation on Therese, your references are great.
Therese's simplistic life has helped my wife and me as we venture into ministry together spreading Christ's Good News.

God Bless,

Chris

I was asked this year to pray for a year for the intercession of Louis and Zelie Martin for "holiness to be born in families". Since I knew them not, I found your site very informative about their lives. I feel my life has been enriched to know more about them through your site. THANK YOU for taking the time to create it for all of us! May God bless you and yours!

For the past 15 years, St. Therese has answered my prayers and she sends me roses by playing the song "Kissed by a Rose" by Seal. I will hear that song at the most difficult times of my life, when I've prayed for Therese's help.

I can't count the number of times it has happened.

Once, my alarm clock went off in the morning and the song was playing. I got spooked by it! I felt for certain that she was trying to tell me something.

I had the strongest feeling that I was supposed to go to school today (I'm a teacher) in order to be there for something major. Whatever it was, I just felt that St. Therese would be with me.

My imagination ran wild, as I thought, "Maybe there would be a school shooting or something." When I got to school, situated just across the Hudson River, from lower Manhattan, New York City, I began the day and forgot what I was worried about.

45 minutes later a plane crashed. The nightmare of that Tuesday, September 11, 2001 was to begin.

Just yesterday I prayed to St. Therese that all would go well at my new teaching job, as some of the kids have been very difficult. (Two were throwing things at me and I had to have security remove them from the class. Major stress!)

That evening my alarm clock malfunctioned. It went off at night instead of the day. And "Kissed By a Rose" was playing!

I am still in awe but not surprised. St. Therese has been showering me with roses for many, many years.

I am no Saint. Far, far from it. I'm quite an angry Catholic as far as the organization of the church and the hierarchy. But the spirituality remains for me my saving grace.

St. Therese has never failed me. I am indebted to her and Jesus for helping me along my journey countless, countless times.

Sincerely,
Jim T.

dear mrs o riordan came on your wonderful website recently it was very informative and spiritual keep up good work of spreading devotion to st thereze and her wonderful parents where can i get a prayer card of blessed zelie and louis martin please let me know by return e-mail many thanks mrs o riordan

We have a premature son who was only born 24 weeks last Aug. 23, 2008. He is suffering from chronic lung disease, he has been in the NICU for more than two months now. He is also on a "jet ventilator for a month now.
We first heard about the story of St. Louis and Zelie Martin last Oct. 19 during a mass. Coincidentally the day they were blessed. During the priest's sermon he talked about the miracle of Pietro Schiliro.
We continue to pray to St. Therese and her parents for our son. May they grant us the same miracle. We hope and continue to have faith.

When I used to go to Lisieux and pray to Therese she always said to me:

Steve,my parents are the Saints not me!

I know that there is no one more overjoyed by their Beatification than she.

Praise God that he has Blessed this World with such a Wonderful Family.

With Sincere Love to you all.

Steve in London

It's wonderful to be able to see this beatification and the relic.
Please pray for me and my family.
May God bless you.

Thank you for creating your website. Isn't it wonderful that the Martins have been beatified!

Darren Marsland
56 Carr St.
Huddersfield
HD3 4AU
29 Oct 1970

What a joy it is for me to be able to see the photos of the beatification! I tried to find out when it would be on American Catholic TV (EWTN) and was not able to see it. The beatification is the latest of the flood of miracles that have come from the Louis Martin family! -- the most stunning, of course, is the little Saint, Therese. What joy for all of us!

congratulations on your very spiritual and informative
web site on st therese and her blessed parents keep up good work of speading devotion to st therese and her blessed parents i will pray for you in my rosary
mrs O'Riordan may st therese and her blessed parents
watch over you and send you a shower of roses from heaven

When my Mother named me, she always made it specifically clear that I was named after the Little Flower. This site is absolutely wonderful, and so very informative. Thank you.

Thank God

As an adult preparing to be received into the Catholic Church next Easter - after being directed by God to the Church, even after I kept at first ignoring the signs!- I am very much looking forward to the visit of St Therese's relics to England in 2009 and your site was an invaluable resource to help me find out more about her and her particular relevance to Catholics.

What a fantastic website. Thank you so much for all the hard work I know this has taken. Here in the United Kingdom we are preparing for the visit of Saint Therese's relics in 2009 so your site will be a wonderful resource.

an amazing woman! Therese: disfigured in the past by sirupy, sentimental devotionalism is now revealed as a tough gal,who, aided by divine grace, faced up to & dealt creatively with mental/emotional disorder; was nervy & audacious, blessedly impulsive,an example/inspiration for people who today struggle to believe in God and His goodness; people who walk in the darkness of faith and derive no consolation from it...her parents' beatification confirms the importance of the family and of the sacrament of Matrimony: an additional source of grace for imperfect, flawed and dysfunctional families. I like this site.

What a wonderful site! Well done! Thank you so much for all these wonderful resources.

I came upon your site today. AWESOME! Thank you! I am a lay Carmelite living a semi-hermit life living a life of prayer, penance & reparation for priests under the protection of St Therese. For all of us, her sisters and brothers in Jesus, let us pray daily for priests for without them there would not be any Sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist and Reconciliation.

I wish to know more about St. Therese and the miracles attributed to her.

St. Therese was such an inspiration to me I chose her as my confirmation name. I want to follow in her footsteps, except dying so young. Now I can't wait for my confimation on December 2. What a Christmas present!