[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Gospel meditation (Bp. Barron)

[Emoke Greschik]

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. *


*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*
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