Our Lady and St. Therese

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

Tomorrow is the feast day of the Assumption of Our Lady! Mary is taken up to Heaven away from this exile. Of course, we know that She is active throughout our lives until the end of the world. She is seeing all the horror and suffering here below and Her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart must be aching each and every day. May we comfort Her by being obedient to Her wishes which is to live the Fatima message of Reparation. May we pray the prayers and offer them to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary knowing that our prayers and sacrifices offered will be of some good for this suffering world.

Today, I wanted to share The Little Flower and her love for Our Lady. She had an intimate relationship with Our Lady and shared that with her sister stating that Mary is more Mother than Queen to me. She lamented that from many of the homilies that she had heard, she never got the sense that Mary is approachable. This is so sad because the St. Louis deMontfort Consecration is one of intimacy. We become Our Lady's child. We consecrate ourselves to Her care and protection. In this day and age where many adult children are giving up on their mothers because they have been college educated and now know better than what the mother taught them. This is so very very tragic. This leads many of them to give up on their Faith which is looked upon as a myth that was "forced upon them". Consequently, they are rejecting the love of their Heavenly and earthly mother. In our throw away culture.....mothers are getting tossed! Is this not the desire of the enemy? Would not Satan want the family destroyed and obtain many souls for Hell?  May Our Lady intervene and pray for these poor misguided "educated" young adults!

OK - back to St. Therese! St. Therese was the most powerful Marian preacher of our modern age. Pope St. Pius X called her the greatest modern day saint. There are many reasons for this. Her book, The Story of a Soul, was read by millions including the soldiers off to war. Many soldiers received miracles through her intercession. Many souls learned through her Little Way to offer up the little mundane things of life with great Love to the Heart of Jesus. After her death,  she sent many roses down to earth as she had promised that she would. She has helped countless souls to be guided back to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and in some circumstances....they also received by some instrument of peace....an actual rose!

St. Therese made these beautiful statements about her relationship to Our Mother Mary which can help our souls.....

She is said to have said this prayer to Our Lady, "I think, my dear Mother, that I am more fortunate than you, because I have you for Mother, and you have not like me, the Blessed Virgin to love."

Similar in thought, she wrote on a holy card of Our Lady of the Smile..... "O Mary, if I were Queen of Heaven and if you were Therese, I would still wish to be Therese, in order that I might see you Queen of Heaven."

Both of these examples show her humility which St. Teresa of Avila gives the definition of as TRUTH. Humility is just truth! People who exhibit pride have nothing to boast about....all is given to us by God. Our very existence is from God. We can not breathe without Him. It is incredible that any human can have pride....it only means they have no intelligence to understand TRUTH.

Our Lady is Humility. She knows and always knew that She is the Handmaid of the Lord. She knows that without God, She is nothing! I love the words of St. Alphonsus de Liguori, who stated that the sun is the light of the world just as Jesus is the Light of the world. Mary is the moon which lights our dark nights but on Her own She has no light but what is reflected on Her by the Son! May we live as true children of Mary and love, honor and respect the God Who created us out of Love. May we pray to Her to show us the way......to shower us with the graces necessary to be the saints that God wants us to be! May we be obedient to the Mother whom God has given to us to love, to cherish and to listen to.

Our Lady, Queen of Heaven and Earth, pray for us and our wayward children!
St. Therese, pray for us and shower our children with graces from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary through your intercession!
Blessed be the Most Holy Trinity in giving us Our Amazing Mother and Queen!

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