Dom Mark Kirby on Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus

"Thérèse is so often referred to as 'little,' that we risk not seeing the breadth and depth that are really characteristic of her, and the immensity of her desires. Paradoxically, there is nothing small, nothing narrow in this painfully sensitive middle-class girl who, at fifteen years of age, closed herself up in Carmel with a certain number of saints, a certain number of women not altogether right in the head, her own sisters, and one rather unusual prioress. Once Thérèse opened herself to the workings of the Holy Spirit, her heart began to expand -- even in the midst of real emotional, spiritual, and physical sufferings, -- until it reached the dazzling dimensions of the charity of Christ."

In a recent reflection, Dom Mark Daniel Kirby (Prior of the Diocesan Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle, Tulsa, OK) offers some insights on Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus.

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Vultus Christi: Thérèse (30 SEP 11)