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0:00[Music]
0:10in around 1895 a young demure and simple
0:14nun living in a carmelite monastery in
0:16lesu france began writing at the behest
0:19of her biological sisters what she would
0:22call a story of her soul it would become
0:26her own magnificat
0:28she died in 1897 through a terrible bout
0:32of tuberculosis
0:34and yet her sisters
0:36inspired by what she wrote
0:38published her work
0:40and her devotion and fame began
0:43spreading throughout europe like
0:44wildfire she was beatified in 1923
0:48canonized in 1925.
0:51pope pius xi said that she was the
0:53greatest saint
0:54of modern times
0:56i refer of course to saint therese of
0:58lejeux
0:59one of the greatest saints
1:01whose work continues to this day
1:03and in this video we will discuss five
1:06lessons from her life
1:09[Music]
1:18the first lesson about therese begins
1:21less with therese than with the people
1:23who influenced her most her family
1:26in particular her mother and father
1:28zelly and louis martin
1:30zelly and louis before they married both
1:32aspire to the religious life
1:34and for various reasons realized that
1:37god would call them to a different
1:38vocation zelly determined if i would not
1:41be a religious then i will raise up many
1:43children to heaven zelie and louis had
1:46nine children four of whom died
1:48tragically at a very young age
1:51but all of their daughters became
1:53religious
1:55zelly and louis were both artisans
1:58she was an award-winning lace maker and
2:00he was a professional watchmaker and
2:03their attention to detail was applied to
2:06how they raised their children and the
2:07catholic faith
2:09zelly and louis ordered their home
2:11around the local parish in particular
2:14daily mass at 5 30 every morning zelly
2:17and louis made sure their family
2:19maintained all of the fasts of the
2:21church and all of the feasts of the
2:23church
2:24therese often recollects how her father
2:26would make frequent visits to the
2:28blessed sacrament and he would take her
2:30along with him and she would see him in
2:32prayer and she would say to herself that
2:34to look at my father praying must have
2:37been what it was like to see the saints
2:39pray
2:40and therese in many ways imitated her
2:43father in prayer
2:44louis was often told by his townspoke
2:46that he would be more profitable in his
2:48business if he only opened on sundays
2:51but louis always refused observing the
2:53sabbath every week
2:55therese recalls
2:57she and her father would give alms to
2:59the poor who would come to their home
3:00almost every week
3:02from zelly and louie therese learned to
3:05trust in divine providence to accept all
3:08the joys and sorrows of this life and
3:11that our sacrifices however small that
3:15we do for the love of god or we're down
3:17to god's glory and for the benefit of
3:19others
3:21why do we have children
3:24the world has its answers
3:26but for catholics there's only one
3:28answer
3:29we have children
3:31to make saints
3:32to raise children up to the lord and the
3:35martin family shows us how
3:41[Music]
3:48the second lesson about therese concerns
3:50her doctrine of the little way
3:53therese had a desire to be a saint
3:55a great saint and she believed that god
3:58would never have inspired her with this
4:00desire had he no intention of fulfilling
4:03it
4:03she trusted that god never commands the
4:06impossible so when jesus says be perfect
4:09as your heavenly father is perfect it
4:11must be attainable
4:13yet when therese looked within herself
4:16she saw too many imperfections and
4:18weaknesses to make this possible
4:21therese never dabbled in false humility
4:24she never exaggerated her weaknesses to
4:26be more than what they were she was
4:28truly honest with herself
4:30therese compared herself to the great
4:33saints like a little grain of sand next
4:36to a mountain whose summit reaches into
4:38the clouds
4:39and her question became how am i going
4:42to get from here
4:44to there
4:45and therese by meditating upon the
4:48scriptures realized i need a shortcut
4:51and i need a lift
4:53and if i throw myself into the arms of
4:55jesus
4:57he will be my lift and he will raise me
4:59up to himself
5:02the little way
5:03is more than a set of practices and
5:06methods it's more than just doing little
5:09things with great love
5:11it is a way of being
5:14it is a disposition of the heart
5:17it is acknowledging that on our own
5:19we are nothing
5:21and we can do nothing without christ
5:24therese believed that jesus
5:27was holiness itself
5:29he was
5:30sanctity
5:32itself
5:33and if she was going to be holy then
5:35what she needed to do she said was
5:38borrow the holiness and sanctity that
5:41belonged to christ alone
5:43if god wanted her to have faith hope and
5:45love then god was going to have to be
5:48faith hope and love in her
5:51that yes we are called to be saints
5:54but we do not have the strength to
5:56become saints on our own
5:58instead we can throw ourselves into the
6:01arms of god our father like a little
6:03child to its parent and allow god and
6:06god's life to live in us lord you can
6:09love in me and through me that is the
6:12essence of a little way
6:23the third lesson about therese concerns
6:25her devotion to the virgin mary
6:27the devotion to the virgin mary was very
6:29much the soil in which the little flower
6:32grew developed and received her
6:34nourishment consider her full name
6:38mary therese francois martin
6:42zelly and louis martin named all of
6:44their children after the virgin mary
6:47why because they wanted to ensure all
6:50their children were consecrated to the
6:52holy mother
6:54and it was through a statue of the
6:56virgin mary in therese's room where mary
6:59appeared and smiled upon her healing
7:02therese of a terrible illness from which
7:05she suffered for many weeks
7:07consider the convent and the order she
7:10joined the carmelites
7:12the first order dedicated to the virgin
7:15mary
7:17and therese herself said she would only
7:18want to be a priest for one reason so
7:21she could preach a homily about the
7:23blessed virgin mary
7:25therese once mused that she thought
7:27herself richer than the virgin mary why
7:30because teresa says mary i have you to
7:33love but you do not have like me the
7:36blessed mother to love
7:37and the very last sentence therese wrote
7:40was o mary if i were queen of heaven and
7:42you were therese i would happily be
7:45therese to see you queen of heaven
7:48by the time therese died many people saw
7:50in therese a living expression of the
7:53virgin mary that therese assumed a
7:57marian form in her life a confessor said
8:00to therese i declare before god and the
8:02holy angels that you have never
8:04committed a grave sin
8:07although therese was certainly not
8:08immaculately conceived she did intuit
8:12that god had by a special preservative
8:14grace prevented her from falling into
8:17mortal sin therese kept a copy of the
8:20gospels near her heart
8:22and like the virgin mother she treasured
8:24and pondered the lord's word and kept
8:26them in her heart
8:29and with prophetic insight therese saw
8:32that after her death
8:34many people would love her as if
8:37all generations will call me blessed
8:40and therese understood heaven not as a
8:42place of repose or rest
8:45but as an expansion of her mission to be
8:47an advocate for the church for lost
8:50souls and like the blessed mother
8:52herself to be a refuge of sinners
8:55when she was a small girl her father
8:57gave her the nickname little queen
9:00he meant that as a term of endearment
9:03but his too was a prophetic insight by
9:06the time therese's life ended
9:08she really had become
9:10a little queen
9:12a mary in miniature
9:15[Music]
9:25the fourth lesson about therese concerns
9:27her love and desire for jesus in the
9:30holy eucharist
9:31for therese there was no personal
9:34relationship with jesus apart from the
9:36blessed sacrament
9:37and from the earliest age she desired to
9:40receive her lord in holy communion one
9:43of the most beautiful passages in her
9:44autobiography concerns how she describes
9:47her first communion
9:49she said up until that point her
9:50relationship with jesus was face to face
9:53it was a glance at each other
9:55but when she received her lord in the
9:57blessed sacrament it was no longer face
10:00to face
10:01it was a fusion
10:02the two became one
10:04and it was no longer therese who lived
10:07it was christ living in her
10:10what therese saw in the holy eucharist
10:13was perfect humility
10:15jesus descending under the guise of
10:18bread
10:19that he could not lower himself to us
10:22anymore
10:24therese wanted to receive jesus in the
10:26eucharist as often as possible
10:29her sister marie said that her greatest
10:31source of suffering at the carmelite
10:33convent consisted of its infrequent
10:36practice of holy communion
10:38therese would say to the hesitant it is
10:40not to remain in a golden cyborium that
10:43jesus comes down each day from heaven
10:46he wants to find another heaven
10:49the heaven of our souls in which he
10:51takes delight
10:53what can we learn from therese's great
10:55desire for frequent communion
10:58that it is an encounter with christ
11:00himself
11:01when we receive the holy eucharist we
11:03receive a person
11:05and when we visit him in adoration we
11:08are quenching his thirst a thirst that
11:10she believed was a thirst for souls a
11:13thirst for our love
11:16therese understood
11:17jesus in the holy eucharist fills what
11:20is empty he feels what is impoverished
11:24in us
11:25and when he fills us he transforms our
11:28nothingness into holy fire
11:33[Music]
11:44the fifth lesson about therese concerns
11:46her experiences of suffering and
11:48sacrifice
11:50therese's life was fraught with pain and
11:52loss and grief
11:54she lost her mother when she was only
11:56four years old she lost her older
11:58sisters to the carmelite convent she
12:01experienced tremendous illnesses
12:03throughout her life and suffered from
12:05chronic headaches
12:07she experienced periods of intense
12:09scrupulosity
12:10even near the end of her life she was
12:12tested against faith and the existence
12:14of god
12:16and of course one of her tremendous
12:17sorrows which she called a piercing of
12:19her heart concerned the loss of her
12:21father when she was just 21 a man she
12:23called her king her beloved
12:27therese understood the sufferings of her
12:29life to be a part of god's providence
12:32and because she knew god was a good god
12:36she understood that god only wills our
12:39good
12:40but does permit the evil and the
12:43suffering for a greater good
12:46so she embraced them because she trusted
12:49that god would use them to draw her
12:51closer to him and to make her holier as
12:54a result
12:55but therese never sought suffering for
12:58its own sake
12:59instead she wanted to be so conformed to
13:02christ
13:03including christ on his cross
13:07he suffered for love
13:08and so she wanted to suffer for love
13:11with him
13:13therese understood that love in this
13:15life
13:16feeds
13:17on
13:18sacrifices love needs to show its
13:21willingness to sink into the depths for
13:24the sake of others and so therese would
13:27do small sacrifices throughout the day
13:29every day
13:31she would break her will she would do
13:33these hidden acts of service for others
13:35they would have no idea who was doing
13:37them and she would gravitate to the most
13:39disagreeable personality in the convent
13:42as an expression of her own sacrifice
13:45to show forth her love for god
13:48therese the last two years especially
13:50the last year of her life
13:53suffered from the debilities of
13:54tuberculosis
13:56she slowly began to asphyxiate
13:59and yet she saw in her suffering a
14:01greater
14:03conformity to christ on his cross
14:06who also suffered from asphyxiation
14:09there was a poignant moment
14:11as therese was dying when her sisters
14:14propped her up one sister on each side
14:17her arms outstretched her body limp
14:20barely breathing
14:22and it looked as if it was christ
14:24himself appearing through her
14:27but therese was willing to suffer this
14:30way
14:31if it meant that the love with which she
14:33loved christ and the love with which she
14:35was willing to humiliate herself to
14:37descend as christ did
14:39will renown to the salvation of the
14:41world
14:43her last words were
14:45oh
14:46how i love him
14:48my god
14:50i love you
14:51[Music]
14:53what is the lesson that therese teaches
14:55us about suffering and sacrifice
14:57all of us have suffering and sorrow in
15:00our lives
15:02but can we trust as therese did that god
15:05only wills our good
15:07and whatever evils and sufferings and
15:09sorrows are happening to us are meant
15:11for a greater good
15:13we can as christ did on his cross absorb
15:16them
15:17and absorb them in love
15:19for the salvation of other souls a
15:22family member or for sinners in general
15:25we are bringing glory to god because we
15:29are bringing his love into the world a
15:31love that was willing to sacrifice and
15:34suffer for us
15:40[Music]
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15:55thank you for believing in this project
15:57may god bless you and may the virgin
15:59mary protect you
16:09[Music]
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