Roses from St. Therese regarding marriage

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Hello everyone. I recently prayed a novena to St. Therese about my boyfriend. The reason why I prayed one is because my boyfriend told me that he thinks he is called to the religious life. If that is God’s will, I wanted to be sure of that, so I can have peace about letting him go. I asked for specific colour of roses, and through the novena, St. Therese interceded for me and reassured me that he is the man I am to marry. Does anyone have stories to share about discerning marriage through the intercession of St. Therese?
 
I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but I think you are approaching this whole thing unrealistically.
A novena is not something we do that we are guaranteed results. Even though you may have received the roses you asked for, I think it would be wrong to assume your question has been answered, especially when you are talking about someone else’s vocation. It is not your choice to let him go or not. It is only your choice whether you will do so with peace should he decide to choose the priesthood.
 
Ditto what Irishmom2 said. You are approaching someone else’s vocation rather superstitiously. How did asking for actual roses start, anyway? St. Therese, I am sure, would not approve. The “shower of roses” that she spoke of were graces, not desires.
 
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I have a big devotion to St Therese and know she has interceded for me many times. The roses are definitely a spiritual reality, not a superstitious “sign from heaven”.
 
In this situation I feel as though it’s akin to asking the Magic 8-Ball and relying on the answer you get. It’s not your vocation that is being discerned, and either your boyfriend or will not enter the religious life. But it probably has nothing to do with asking for a certain color of flowers for yourself.
 
If he decides to pursue his vocation, are you going to say that it’s a mistake? He shouldn’t be going? Are you going to make it more difficult for him to go forward in this? He needs the space to decide and now you will hang on to him harder.
That is how the evil one would try to mess up someone’s vocation to the priesthood. Pull him off the path early.
 
I have received roses while praying to St. Theresa and still not had my prayers answered as I may have wished. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t pray to her, nor does it mean we will never get what we ask for. As someone else pointed out, it is a shower of graces, perhaps to accept the things we do not receive.
 
I hope that 10 years from now, regardless if you are together or not, that you know that St Therese is praying for you and cheering you on. Life doesn’t play out the way we think it should.

I worry when I see a post like yours because I have a friend who never married and at some point she said to me that God doesn’t care if I’m happy or not. She quit going to church and the sacraments.
Life is hard, and it’s much harder without God.
 
After doing a little digging on the Little Flower website, I have read that one should never pray for physical roses, just the intercession. “ One does not pray for roses. Therese’s message is about simplicity and love in the ordinary events of life. Trust in Therese is important, and when she wills, roses or their fragrance may appear.”
 
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