Roses from Saint Therese- I'm in awe!

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You’re certainly not crazy. This is what St. Therese does. 🙂

The Register is actually running a series currently where they are sharing people’s stories of receiving roses from St. Therese. There will be another part in the series coming soon, too.



 
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Thank you for sharing this prayer! I have begun a little novena to St. Therese asking her for a rose and her prayers.
 
You’re most welcome! May GOD grant you the desire of your heart. Shalom! 😇😇😇
 
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Wow! I’m blown away by all this! The register has a current series on this - do you think they’d be interested in my story? Are “regular” folks writing in lol?
 
If you hang the flowers upside down for a month or two, they’ll dry very nicely.

Congratulations on your roses! 💙

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Maragal, yes I have a very special love for Francis De Sales, My favorite Saint by far, so much so that our daughter who passed away was named Katie Francis. A demonic attack led me back into the Church eleven years ago, and my wife came into the Church. As I was falling in love with Christ and my new found faith it seemed a lot of Protestants began to question my faith, the usual stuff they throw our way. When I was looking for answers I read a book by St. Francis and was blown away by his knowledge and his holy ways. I began to pray for his intercessions. When I did it became so easy to defend the Church.

But here is the cool part. I never told a soul he was my favorite Saint. Well, during the first year or so of my reversion, my dad had cancer. When Father’s day rolled around after he passed, my mother wanted to do something very special for my brother and I since we were really missing him. So she gives my brother a beautiful antique rosary that was our grandmother’s, so awesome and really touched my brother. Then my mother gives me a gift, I nearly fainted when I opened the little velvet red bag!! You wouldn’t believe it! It was a first class relic of St. Francis De Sales!!! That too was my grandmothers and I never knew she had it or that it was passed down to my dad when she passed away. No one but no one knew he was my favorite Saint. Once again, what are the chances??? It is so amazing to see how the Lord works. I look back and I’m in awe! So yes, St. Francis is my fav Saint, and I just know our daughter Katie Francis, (“Katie Bug”) is probably by his side in heaven waiting to introduce me to him when my time comes. I can’t wait!!!

God bless you and thanks for your awesome story about the roses!!

And I do have a pink rose miracle to share as well, will do when time permits.
 
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Am I crazy for thinking this is “real”?
We are frequently blessed in these ways, even if no one but ourselves makes the connection. A truly awe filled moment like this is to be treasured. I have experienced similar things and they serve to validate many courses in my life. Blessings.
 
I recall one time, my brother was having an argument with my friend (who was deeply religious) about whether God exists. My brother declared “I would believe if God showed me proof. Shoot me with lightning or something”

Right then, the porch light just EXPLODED and shot sparks everywhere. My brother then demanded “Okay that didn’t count!!”
 
Maybe receiving tulips would say persevere with this intention, how nice would that be?

I will await my stinging nettles. 🙂
 
Wow! I’m blown away by all this! The register has a current series on this - do you think they’d be interested in my story? Are “regular” folks writing in lol?
It never hurts to try. I’m not sure if the deadline has passed for submitting a story or not. I submitted my story. I’m not sure if I’m a “regular” folk or not, though. 🥴 😝
 
I understand exactly how you feel. Many times, I feel the same way too. But somehow, just when I was about to give up, that’s when the Holy Spirit comes in and deliver me from all my despair.

I have included in my prayer and will continue to do so. I also prayed that your wife will come back to the Church and attend the mass regularly.

Remember…
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GOD bless and may the peace of our Lord be with you always, brother! 😇😇😇
 
Still no roses for me. No tulips. No stinging nettles.

I wonder if someone hit me in the face with a bunch of roses whether that would be a good sign? 😁
 
Give her time. And most importantly, pray every day. Not that you get a rose for no reason, but to be closer to God. Ask St. Therese to help you be more like her, trusting in God regardless of what happens, seeing God’s grace in everything.

I think God is testing you somehow because you have posted here many times that you pray and don’t seem to get an answer. Maybe ask God why that’s going on. Maybe ask what you have to do to be closer to him and to have better communication with him and his saints.

This is the prayer I use. I try to say it to her every day but sometimes like recently I fall down on the job.

It’s also the prayer Mother Angelica said when she was young.

If you say this prayer daily, St. Therese will help you, roses or not. The roses are really just secondary. The help is what matters.
There’s a place in the prayer to put your intentions too.
O beautiful Rose of Carmel, Saint Therese of the Infant Jesus, deign according to your promise to descend from Heaven to visit those who implore you, and to pour down in profusion those Celestial Graces that are symbolized by the shower of roses that Jesus, your Spouse, has put at your disposal. Your power is great with his Heart. He can only listen and hear your prayer. I have recourse to you then, O Saint Therese of the Child Jesus; assist me in this need (mention your intention.)
Speak for me to Jesus and to Mary and obtain for me the grace to live a holy life and die a happy death. Amen
 
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Thanks for everything but my hope has gone, I don’t know why I have been left this way. I’m going to remove His image from my phone background which has been there for many years and may even remove my scapular as I no longer have strength and have decided to completely give up. (Spiritually, not talking about suicide).

I would never abandon my children!
 
Well, I hope you won’t do those things! Especially the scapular.

I will petition the Sacred Heart for an emergency intervention here.

God bless. Remember, even if you lose hope in Jesus, He never loses hope in you.
 
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Everyone’s stories moved me so much I’ll share as well.

4 years go I made a delivery to a “Little Flower of Jesus Church.” Not religious at the time, I thought the name seemed odd, but whatever. It was early evening and kids were playing at the ball diamond behind the church. As a single person with no faith I thought, “How awesome would it be to have a community and some kind of solid religious belief?”

A year later I had been doing spiritual reading and everything kept coming back to the Catholic faith. While reading Seven Storey Mountain I thought, “How great it would be to have a faith like Merton’s! I wonder if it’s possible? He and I both led less-than-moral lives in the past.” He also mentioned the Little Flower. I then read The Story of a Soul by St Therese. At this point I did not have any recollection of the church I had delivered to a year before.

6 months later one of the books I was reading said, “If you’re not part of a spiritual community, that needs to be your first priority. No amount of reading can substitute for that.” I couldn’t let the idea go, and googled churches in my area. I had just moved to this part of town, and the closest church was Little Flower of Jesus Church. I still did not recall the church I had delivered to a year and a half ago.

I went to mass to see what it’s all about. The people and the pastor really lived their faith. I realized this is what I had been looking for.

A few weeks of attending mass there, and I finally remembered the church I delivered to a year and a half ago. This place looked familiar. I walked around back of the church, and there was a ball diamond. The same ball diamond I saw kids playing on when I thought, “How awesome it would be to have a faith like that!”

St Therese and the Holy Spirit took me from “What’s a Little Flower of Jesus church?” to believing in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, which was given to me in adoration at that very church.

I also just remembered I nearly died 11 years ago on October 23rd, which is today. And I “happen” to have the day off work. Sharing your stories has inspired me to drop off a rose for St Therese at a certain ball diamond as an offer of thanks to God and to St Therese, and I’ll whisper a prayer for all of you as well.

Just to top it off, since this has been such a moving experience for me…I almost never log on to this forum in the morning 🙂
 
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