Are your fears, weaknesses, doubts, and anger keeping you from intimacy with Christ? Do you struggle with despair? Let St. Therese teach you perfect trust.
Learn how Therese of Lisieux trusted God through tragedy, scruples, spiritual darkness, and physical suffering. Connie Rossini pairs episodic stories from the saint’s life with memories of her own quest to trust. With Sacred Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and insights from psychology, Rossini leads readers to surrender their lives completely to Jesus.
Practical and accessible, Trusting God with St. Therese includes questions for reflection that make it perfect for book clubs and faith-sharing groups. The Catholic Writers Guild awarded it their Seal of Approval.
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In the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux, France, a young nun lay dying. She had coughed up blood twice that day. The brown habit hung limply on her shrinking frame. Even her hands were skeleton-like. Her face was flushed with fever. Sharp pains pierced her right lung. At times she struggled to breathe. She was too weak to raise her hand to her mouth.
Dr. Alexandre-Damase de Corniere refused to allow the nuns to bring her downstairs to the infirmary for fear the movement would kill her. He ordered her to stay perfectly still and prescribed sucking on ice cubes to stop the coughing up of blood. He also ordered mustard poultices.
Sister Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face had been seriously ill since the early morning hours of Good Friday, nearly fifteen months before. Returning to her cell after Compline, the Church's Night Prayer, she had coughed up blood for the first time. She was certain then that she was to die soon. However, she hid her illness as long as she could. She dragged herself to choir, worked in the laundry, and sewed vestments. No one knew the effort this cost her. Only the previous spring was she relieved of all duties besides finishing the manuscript she was writing about her life.
Then in June came a night so bad that the doctor predicted she would not survive. But Therese rallied. Her condition stabilized until this crisis of July 6, 1897.
On July 8, Dr. de Corniere examined her again. Seeing her continued weakness, he shook his head. "In this condition, only two percent recover," he told Mother Marie de Gonzague, the prioress. He said that Therese had congestion in an injured lung, although the ultimate diagnosis was tuberculosis.
Therese heard his words and smiled. Perhaps at last she could receive Extreme Unction! She had been asking for it for weeks. In those days the Anointing of the Sick (as we now call it) was only given when death was thought to be imminent.
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