Beholding Sainthood's Little Flower

[axolotl]

What is wrong with our Catholic universities?

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Therese of Lisieux, arguably one of the most popular Catholic saints of the modern era, died without believing in heaven, clinging to her love of mankind. Her gravestone reads: “I want to spend my heaven doing good on Earth.”

I think it’s going to offend a lot of people, particularly the eighth chapter on her theology. That’s understandable. She is a conciliatory figure in Catholicism. My book pours out the rose water part of her cult. Therese is famous for the scattering roses, the gesture of one who cannot do much more than that for Jesus, but was, in fact, a hard hitter. By the end of her life, she is identifying herself with the type the church has a hard time receiving: those who reject the notion of God, those indifferent to Christianity.

 

[Veritas41]

Amazing anyone could read her *Story of a Soul *(I’ve read it twice) and come to such conclusions…

 

[Nordar]

Say What? Where do these people come from?

 

[havemercy]

Hell.

Gosh, I love St. Therese.

 

[Spirithound]

As a Discalced Carmelite, would she even get a gravestone?