The Spiritual Journey of St. Therese of Lisieux

Häftad bok. Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd . 1982. 227 sidor.

Nära nyskick. Previous owner's signature at the cover page///Book summary: ///Förlagets beskrivning: "She knows how to make you weep with devotion or die with laughter." Nun at Lisieux. "She is not doing anything exceptional... you cannot even say that she is a good nun" Nun at Lisieux "Of Therese of Lisieux one can say with conviction that the Spirit of God let her heart reveal directly to the men and women of our day the fundamental reality of the Gospel." Pope John Paul II Who was this young French Carmelite who died in 1897 aged 24, misunderstood in her own community but so universally loved since her death that the adulation given to a pop star pales by comparison? She was certainly no saint in the 'classic' mould of whips and hairshirts. At a time when extreme physical penance was the rage in some enclosed Orders, Therese would have none of it. Her passionate love of Jesus led her to concentrate entirely on him rather than on personal austerities. Her message is that great holiness is within the reach of every man, woman and child and is not the prerogative of the 'chosen few' . In The Spiritual Journey of St Therese of Lisieux Guy Gaucher, Bishop of Meaux, Carmelite and international authority on the life
and writings of Therese, reveals her true face: the face of the very human Therese who commented wryly during a cold winter: 'Saints go to heaven with their instruments of penance, and I will go with my foot warmer!' Therese who detested 'old wives' devotions' and was appalled at the treatment she saw meted out to women in Italy. Therese who longed passionately to be priest, martyr and apostle - and could still fall asleep over her prayers and burst into tears over a broken window-pane. Previous attempts to 'whitewash' her life have merely served to camouflage the amazing truth which is that God can take a psychologically fragile adolescent and turn her into the greatest saint of the twentieth century because, in Therese's own words, 'I have never relied on myself, only on Jesus'.