Roses from St. Therese?

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So I’ve been praying a novena to St. Therese since last Friday praying for to be sent a rose if I can know if an undisclosed event will turn out positively. Today I went somewhere and I got handed a bunch of flowers to carry around for awhile to free someone’s hands up. None were roses, but they were still flowers.

Should I make anything out of this or no?
 
No, a rose would be given to you personally if it was from St. Therese.
 
This is how it worked for me!

I had a very important spiritual matter I was praying for for my child. Were were in a divorce and custody battle and my husband had refused my son being baptized, after it was all arranged, for the 2nd time, saying, “He will never be baptized Catholic!” The situation was impossible and required a miracle. I prayed a Novena to St. Theresa and asked for a rose over the matter.

A day past the end of Novena, I realized there were minor signs (pictures, mentions etc.) of roses around me. Some people said this is how they got answered. I prayed to St. Theresa in frustration: “I want a rose! Not a picture of a rose, not a silk rose, I want a REAL rose!”

That day my only Evangelical friend left was coming to visit. No one in my life before or since has had ever brought me a rose, ever once. I have received a dozen roses before on Valentines Day or birthday. But no one ever brought me a single rose.

She got out of her car with a single rose. She presented it to me at the door. I was so shocked I could hardly speak. One rose. She said her husband bought her a dozen roses and she wanted to share one with me!

I recognized it as a “Peace Rose” - soft variation of color from pale yellow to peach to pink tips. Peace, a reminder for me of God’s peace when my life had no earthly peace at all.

Within a month, my husband volunteered to me that he decided I could have our son baptized if I wanted! Again, I was so shocked I could hardly speak! (At the time, for many, many months, he was only contentious, angry and accusing WHENEVER he spoke to me!).

So, I will never forget that!
 
Before I became Catholic, I prayed the novena to St. Therese. Well, a few days later, I received flowers for my birthday…no roses…just flowers. I took it as " Your prayer isnt being answered right now, but be patient". And I was patient. A good several months later my prayer was answered.
 
I don’t know if this qualifies, but my beautiful rose bush died in the February freeze earlier this year. I felt so sad that I “kind of” mourned the lost of it for a couple of days. I cut it down, but did not dig it out. About a month ago, I noticed that the rose bush is growing out from one of the roots. I couldn’t believe it, but I do hope it turns out it “somehow” came back to “life”. Would this count? It not, it is still a great surprise.
 
I did my first novena to St. Therese this past March. I didn’t ask for a rose. I prayed for my wife’s health after cancer treatment. I went to be alone on the front steps of my mother in laws home. My wife was off on a trip with with my sister in law, and was not doing very well. Weak, and tired. I was in prayer. When I looked about there was 1 rose bloom on one bush right in front of me. A Peace Rose at that. I was WOW’ed! I looked along the long fence. Thence along the street. It was the only rose. And it was right in front of ME! I’ve prayed that novena to St. Therese several times since. And roses always come into play. But I never pray for a rose. Only pleads of grace. My sister who I’m trying to get back to the church will ask me if I’ve gotten another rose. In fact I did! But I never ask for a rose.

Thank You St. Therese.
 
MS_SURVEYOR said:
I did my first novena to St. Therese this past March. I didn’t ask for a rose. I prayed for my wife’s health after cancer treatment. I went to be alone on the front steps of my mother in laws home. My wife was off on a trip with with my sister in law, and was not doing very well. Weak, and tired. I was in prayer. When I looked about there was 1 rose bloom on one bush right in front of me. A Peace Rose at that. I was WOW’ed! I looked along the long fence. Thence along the street. It was the only rose. And it was right in front of ME! I’ve prayed that novena to St. Therese several times since. And roses always come into play. But I never pray for a rose. Only pleads of grace. My sister who I’m trying to get back to the church will ask me if I’ve gotten another rose. In fact I did! But I never ask for a rose.

Thank You St. Therese.
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Ahhh, that is nice. Hope, my friend…
 
MS_SURVEYOR said:
I did my first novena to St. Therese this past March. I didn’t ask for a rose. I prayed for my wife’s health after cancer treatment. I went to be alone on the front steps of my mother in laws home. My wife was off on a trip with with my sister in law, and was not doing very well. Weak, and tired. I was in prayer. When I looked about there was 1 rose bloom on one bush right in front of me. A Peace Rose at that. I was WOW’ed! I looked along the long fence. Thence along the street. It was the only rose. And it was right in front of ME! I’ve prayed that novena to St. Therese several times since. And roses always come into play. But I never pray for a rose. Only pleads of grace. My sister who I’m trying to get back to the church will ask me if I’ve gotten another rose. In fact I did! But I never ask for a rose.

Thank You St. Therese.
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I love this! And you “got” a Peace Rose, too! I never heard anyone else say that!! 🙂

Yes, its probably better not to ask (or demand!) one as I did. I know that sounds selfish (and I know you are not saying that) but I was pretty desparate about my son’s baptism (I was pretty a desperate about a lot of things at the time) and I had just read Story of a Soul, remembering how when Therese’s sister offered Therese her dolls, asking, “Which one?”, Therese said, “I want ALL of them!” St. Therese recollected that it pleases God when we ask for much, as He is Abundance (I am paraphrasing from memory here). Also when she was picking a charism, she wanted them ALL, and couldn’t decide. Then She chose Love, because it embraced all.

I also often remember that we can ask God for a lot more than we think - for everything! When I offer up a Rosary, or even a Hail Mary, for a particular intention, I often add a whole list of other intentions that pop in my mind, or intentions that are always on my mind, as well, even though the offering is really for the other specific need. Because God is Abundance, it doesn’t water-down my original intention to tack a whole lot else on it.
 
I’ll be finishing my first novena to St. Therese tomorrow.
 
**Here is my St. Therese novena story. **

**I go to a Catholic College and a bunch of my friends and I like to pray a daily rosary together every night. One of those nights I thought randomly, “I wonder how far we are from the feast of St. Therese. I should pray a novena; I hope it’s not too late.” Then I went back to praying the rosary and forgot about it until that night when my room mate and I were getting ready for bed and I remembered so I checked the calendar. Sure enough, it was exactly 9 days before Oct. 1 - her feast day. **

**My room mate and I decided to do the novena and ask to know about our vocations. I asked for a white rose for religious life, a red rose for married life, and a pink rose if I wasn’t supposed to know, yet. She asked for the same colors with red meaning religious and white meaning married. We prayed the novena every night before going to bed and we didn’t tell anyone what we were doing. The night before her feast day, I lay in bed and asked St. Therese specifically for a rose that I knew was for me and was a real rose I could hold in my hand. I didn’t want to be confused by other things that meant nothing. **

**The next morning, my room mate and I decided to pray the last day of the novena first thing so we wouldn’t forget. We got all ready for the day and headed out the door and behold there were two real red roses hanging on the door in water. One of out suite-mates loves St. Therese and decorated the whole suite with red roses. We were both pretty surprised by the color that we got because we were both leaning in the opposite directions. **

**It’s been an interesting journey since then. I’ve kind of determined that I shouldn’t have asked to know what my vocation was because we should just let God let us know in his time. To be honest, even after the rose, I’m still leaning in the same direction as before. I really don’t know. Perhaps one of you may be able to shed some light on the situation. **
 
Joyful_1 said:
**Here is my St. Therese novena story. **

**I go to a Catholic College and a bunch of my friends and I like to pray a daily rosary together every night. One of those nights I thought randomly, “I wonder how far we are from the feast of St. Therese. I should pray a novena; I hope it’s not too late.” Then I went back to praying the rosary and forgot about it until that night when my room mate and I were getting ready for bed and I remembered so I checked the calendar. Sure enough, it was exactly 9 days before Oct. 1 - her feast day. **

**My room mate and I decided to do the novena and ask to know about our vocations. I asked for a white rose for religious life, a red rose for married life, and a pink rose if I wasn’t supposed to know, yet. She asked for the same colors with red meaning religious and white meaning married. We prayed the novena every night before going to bed and we didn’t tell anyone what we were doing. The night before her feast day, I lay in bed and asked St. Therese specifically for a rose that I knew was for me and was a real rose I could hold in my hand. I didn’t want to be confused by other things that meant nothing. **

**The next morning, my room mate and I decided to pray the last day of the novena first thing so we wouldn’t forget. We got all ready for the day and headed out the door and behold there were two real red roses hanging on the door in water. One of out suite-mates loves St. Therese and decorated the whole suite with red roses. We were both pretty surprised by the color that we got because we were both leaning in the opposite directions. **

**It’s been an interesting journey since then. I’ve kind of determined that I shouldn’t have asked to know what my vocation was because we should just let God let us know in his time. To be honest, even after the rose, I’m still leaning in the same direction as before. I really don’t know. Perhaps one of you may be able to shed some light on the situation. **
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What an interesting story!

So you are still in college. Yes, it does seem like you might look for more confirmation, if you are wondering if you should instead let God let you know in His time. On the other hand, preparation for either marriage or religious life is kind of the same. Fidelity, living in God’s will one day at a time, one hour at a time. Learning to love Jesus more. Growing in Faith and trust in God. Its a tall order for anyone.

If the red roses mean what they seem to mean to, you don’t know whether marriage for you will be next year or in ten years! (I hope not that long). You don’t know when/where your husband to be will come on the scene. Same with the vocation. Either direction, you must take one day at a time and listen for God’s voice and direction. Its a full life right NOW to practice walking in God’s grace and learning to trust him. Its enough for now.
 
I have a little story from today- how odd that this thread should pop up! 🙂 Anyway, I was feeling super low after Mass and went to the adoration chapel and ended up begging St. Therese for a rose, just one, as confirmation that God hadn’t forgotten about me. (A bit silly, sitting in front of the Eucharist, but whatever.) I’ve never prayed to St. Therese before, and had mostly forgotten about her roses. That was just before leaving. Guess what I saw as I was walking back to my car? That’s right, a whole bush full of roses. 😃

Now, I’m usually pretty attentive to flowers, and I don’t remember seeing these on my way in. I’m sure they were there and all, but it’s like the bush was put there just for me, to answer a prayer a whole minute-and-thirty-seconds after I prayed it.
 
well… I didn’t get a physical rose, but I downloaded and listened to Fr. Benedict Groeschel talking about depression, which I have struggled with in the past. At the end of it, he talked about a guy who accidentally sent down a shower of roses on her feast day at the wrong church.
 
You could always just ask for clarification.

My friend did a novena to St Therese and got what she thought was a sign, but she wasn’t sure. So she did a second novena asking for clarification. She got another sign, but still wasn’t sure if she was just making it up. So she did a third clarification novena. On the third one she got a pretty unmistakable sign and decided it was official.

There’s nothing wrong with just saying “I think that was a sign, but I just want to make sure”.
 
I’m taking it as a sign that protects me from falling into pride.
 
Hello everyone,
I have a question…
I prayed to Saint Therese and asked her for a white rose. so after the novena the following week I went to church and I saw white roses with red edged petals! so I was so happy to see it. I know that she heard me. then after a few days, someone cut infront of me wearing a shirt with white roses too! but then after a couple weeks someone gave me a ring with black roses on it. the same day I got a clock with red roses too! now im confused… does it matter what color I asked for? I did get a rose but not the color I asked for…twice.

has anyone asked for a specific color rose and got a different one but had there prayers answered anyway?
 
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