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J.M.J
October 1, 2014
St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Also today I call you to also be like the stars, which by their light give light and beauty to others so they may rejoice. Little children, also you be the radiance, beauty, joy and peace - and especially prayer - for all those who are far from my love and the love of my Son Jesus. Little children, witness your faith and prayer in joy, in the joy of faith that is in your hearts; and pray for peace, which is a precious gift from God. Thank you for having responded to my call." (September 25, 2014)
On
this special day, the Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, let's
remember the moment when Our Lady appeared to St. Therese, and healed
her of a terrible disease. Therese's description of that moment is
beautiful, and reminds me of the description Our Lady is giving us in
this message of how we should be!
Fr. Hardon tells the story this way:
Until
Thérèse was nine years old, her sister Pauline took the place of her
mother. But in 1881 when Pauline entered the Carmel at Lisieux, her
younger sister felt the shock so severely that she came down with a
nervous malady from which according to human calculations she was never
to be cured. She seemed to be almost constantly in delirium. The doctors
were perplexed about the nature of the sickness, but were sure that it
could not be cured.
During
moments when the pain was less severe, she found special delight in
weaving garlands of flowers for Our Lady's altar. "We were then in the
beautiful month of May, when all of nature was adorned with the flowers
of springtime; only the little flower was languishing and seemed
destined to die. That is until she received sunlight from above, and
that sunlight was the miraculous statue of the Queen of Heaven."
Often
in the course of her illness, she turned towards the statue of Our Lady
and asked to be cured. Her father wrote to Paris to have some Masses
celebrated in the Sanctuary of Notre Dame des Victoires, asking for the
cure of his "poor little queen." At the same time a novena was begun to
the Blessed Virgin, but no sign of improvement. In fact, Thérèse became
steadily worse until she could not even recognize those who stood beside
her. Finally, on the Sunday
before the novena ended, during a spasm of delirious pain while her
sisters were praying before the statue of the Immaculate Heart, "I also
turned to our Heavenly Mother," she relates, "begging her with all my
heart to have pity on me. All of a sudden the statue became alive! The
Virgin became beautiful, so beautiful that I could never find words to
express it...But what penetrated to the roots of my being was her
ravishing smile. At that moment all my pains vanished." (Ibid., 51)
Our
Lady smiled on Therese, and she was healed!! "Little children, also you
be the radiance, beauty, joy and peace - and especially prayer..." Our
Lady's smile brought with it all the radiance, beauty, joy and peace
that God had filled her with. She who is full of grace, smiled, and that
grace radiated upon little Therese and brought the healing God had for
her.
Isn't
that what Our Lady wants to happen through us? She wants us to become
full of God's grace, and become His smile for others. She wants us to
radiate God's love. We can be His smile for others through our faith,
our prayer, our joy, and our love.
"Little
children, witness your faith and prayer in joy, in the joy of faith
that is in your hearts; and pray for peace, which is a precious gift
from God."
May we become God's smile on earth for those who need so much to receive it!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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