Saint Therese of Lisieux was born in France, January 2, 1873. At the age of 14, she had conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and and sensitive spirit were turned toward love instead of keeping herself happy.
At 15, she entered the Carmelite convent in Lisieux to give her whole life to God. She took the religious name sister Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face.
Living a hidden, simple life of prayer, she was gifted with great intimacy with God. Through sickness and dark nights of doubt and fear, she remained faithful to God, rooted in His merciful love.
After a long struggle with tuberculosis, she died on September 30, 1897 at the age of 24. Her last words were the story fo her life : "My God, I love you!"
The world came to know her through her autobiography, "Story of a Soul". She described her life as a "little way of spiritual childhood." She lived each day with an unshakable confidence in God's love.
She wrote "What matters in life is not great deeds, but great love." She believed that just as a child becomes enamored with what is before her, we should also have a childlike focus and totality attentive love. Her spirituality is "doing the ordinary with extra ordinary love".
She loved flowers and saw herself as the "little flower of Jesus" who gave glory to God by just being her beautiful little self among all the other flowers in God's garden.
"My mission to make God loved will begin after my death and I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses."
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