This happens not so much during my hours of prayer as when I’m busy with my daily work.
Just when I need it, a new light shines on my problems. He guides and inspires me every moment of the day. I have never heard Him speak, but I know that He is within me. He, the Doctor of doctors, can teach without words. Jesus has no need of books or doctors of the Church to guide souls. I understand and, by experience, I know that the Kingdom of God is within us. Much that we know about her is from the manuscripts which make up her autobiography, L’histoire d’une âme, her letters and poetry, and from her sisters (both blood and spiritual) who were in the Carmel of Lisieux with her.
They are always showing me new ways of looking at things, and I am always finding hidden and mysterious meanings in them. Thérèse of Lisieux was born as Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin on Januin Alençon. But, above all, the Gospels help me in my prayers. In them I find hidden manna, a pure and substantial food. When she was 10 years old, the Little Flower miraculously recovered from an unknown and life-threatening illness. When I’m in this state, the Bible and The Imitation come to my rescue. If I glance at a book, no matter how good and moving it is, my heart at once contracts and I read without understanding or, if I understand, I cannot meditate on it. Thrse of - Free Ebook Project Gutenberg 70,606 free eBooks 3 by Saint de Lisieux Thrse The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une me): The Autobiography of St. But as I grew older, religious writers left me quite unmoved. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une me): The Autobiography of St. When I was between seventeen and eighteen, they were my only spiritual food. “I have had great enlightenment from the writings of St.
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