FuzzyBunny116:
Whats this asking for a rose thing?
There is a novena prayer from the Pieta prayer book and other sources which goes:
“St. Therese, the Little Flower, please pick me a rose from the heavenly garden and send it to me with a message of love. Ask God to grant me the favor I thee implore and tell him I will love him each day more and more.”
It is followed by 5 Our Fathers, 5 Hail Marys and 5 Glory Be’s.
Last fall I was saying this prayer. I live in MN and the growing season for spring flowers is long past. I have 2 bushes flanking my front door which bloom every June (I have only been here for 2 June’s). First, it’s kind a God’s birthday gift to me as I am a June baby.
Secondly, last fall, in the middle of the above 5 day novena, 3 white flowers bloomed on the bush outside my door. My neighbor in the townhome next door has exactly the same bushes and the same sunlight/shade, and flowers did nto bloom there. They did not bloom on my other bush…just on the one I see immediately as I walk out or in my door every single morning.
Those bushes do not bloom in October.
The cool thing was, though, that the flowers bloomed from exactly the same spot from which the last buds had sprouted…and in late June/ early July I offered those last blooms to Our Lady and left them at the Fatima shrine at my parish.
They have a scent similar to roses.
When the flowers from St. Therese bloomed in October, I had a feeling they weren’t for me and I brought them to my neighbors, 2 sisters who share a wall with me, both Catholic and both influenced my return to the Church. I told them they were from St. Therese and I learned both have a devotion to her.
Most recently, I was praying the 5 day prayer and I am amidst a vocational discernment currently. On the 5th day I was attending an all-night prayer vigil in reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary at my parish. A friend of mine who has recently chosen a her community learned that I was looking at a particular one in Wisconsin and had a relic from the foundress.
That night, the 5th day of the “novena”, she found me at the vigil so as to be able to give me the relic. The relic belongs to the foundress of a Carmelite order and it is enclosed in a little leather booklet decorated in roses.
After my friend had left I realized it was a response from St. Therese.
Furtehr…when I was struggling in Confession little less than a year ago and I was praying/ crying in our adoration chapel, there was a woman there who I have actually not seen since, come to think of it. Out of the corner of my eye I saw her kneel before she left and when she went to pass me she stopped. She leaned in and thrust a home-made prayer booklet in front of me. Very quietly she whispered that she was there that night to bring that booklet to another person who had not showed up and she felt like she was supposed to give it to me.
She told me the prayers were very powerful.
I thanked her tearfully and as i opened it I realized that she had handed me several novena prayers to St. Therese for her intercession and the Litany to St. Therese.
At the time, I was sitting very near her statue in the corner of our adoration chapel.
She now enjoys a little corner in my house with a blessed picture and a bouquet of seasonal (albiet fake) flowers.
). Just a few months ago I found the quote in my signature and it made me want to read A story of a soul. I’ve since started praying to her at night and will probably do a novena as an introduction when I finish the current one I’m on. 
