01/10/2021

Today we receive warnings from the Scriptures both old and new. We remember "litle" St Therese whose short life was full of bodily suffereing but whose soul sang as she walked her "little" way to heaven. 

There was nothing "little" about this Carmelite who fought her way into the convent. She stormed the Vatican. What must the Pope have felt about her breach of protocol? Such a short life but with a devotion that is infinitly greater than that of my 80 some years.

Her "Little way" has inspired many of us but with what distate must she and all the other monastic saints view the shenanigans of the monastries of this day and age. The reforms of her namesake have crumbled when faced by the realities of living with "vows" in the 20th Century. How many of her spiritual descendants could look their "Little" sister in the eye given the state of the order of which she is an adornment.

We have always been warned that we all can crumble and miss the only goal of our lives. Today Jesus is no less harsh than Baruch."Little" St Therese has the soubriquet "of the Child Jesus" but her life was devoted to the Crucified Son of God manifest in Holy Spirit which filled her soul with Love.

Dear God let those words keep me true to the Way the Truth and the Life. Give the strength to know that St Therese in heaven and all the other Saints led by your mother continue to intercede for your weakened Church here on Earth and that it will not fall no matter how shaken by our sinful lives.