[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi / Lisieuxi Kis Szt. Teréz ünnepe

[Emoke Greschik]

*Az elmélkedés lemaradt, l. alább: *

*Friends, today is the Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus. The
best introduction to Thérèse’s spirituality is a text that she wrote at the
behest of Sr. Marie of the Sacred Heart, a sort of memoir of the retreat
that she made in September 1896, just a year before her death.*





*What she offers is a "science of love," a way of knowing and acting that
is utterly conditioned by the love that Jesus has placed in her heart:
"Jesus deigned to show me the road that leads to this Divine Furnace, and
this road is the surrender of the little child who sleeps without fear in
its Father’s arms."God, Thérèse concluded, is pleased to work with those
who have become utterly docile to his direction, who have acknowledged
their total dependence upon him, their readiness to receive gifts. Any
sense that God’s love must be earned or that a relationship with him is a
product of economic calculation is repugnant to a healthy spirituality:
"Jesus does not demand great actions from us but simply surrender and
gratitude."When this attitude is in place, anything and everything is
possible. Following Thérèse, we can be pleasing to God and valuable to the
Church in the humblest places and through the simplest acts. All we need to
do is surrender, like a little child asleep in its Father’s arms.*
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