St. Therese and the Sacred Heart
St. Therese had a beautiful devotion to the Sacred Heart. She found in this devotion a union of her heart with the Heart of her Savior and she greatly desired to love Christ with her entire being. To have a virginal heart meant that her love for Christ was all consuming and pre-eminent. She promised to send down a shower of roses from heaven and that she would spend her heaven doing good on earth. Let us pray that St. Therese might increase in our hearts a great and all-consuming love for God!
“Dear Celine, I always have the same thing to say to you. Ah! LET US PRAY FOR PRIESTS; each day shows how few the friends of Jesus are… It seems to me this is what He must feel the most, ingratitude, especially when seeing souls who are consecrated to Him giving to others a heart that belongs to Him in so absolute a way…
Celine, LET US MAKE OF OUR HEARTS A LITTLE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS WHERE JESUS MAY COME TO REST… LET US PLANT ONLY LILIES IN OUR GARDEN, yes lilies, and let us allow no other flowers, for other flowers can be cultivated by other souls, but it is virgins alone who can give lilies to Jesus … Virginity is a profound silence from all cares of this earth, not only from useless cares but from all cares. To be virgin we must think only of the spouse, who allows nothing around Him that is not virgin since He willed it to be born of a Virgin Mother, to have a virgin precursor, a virgin foster father, a virgin favorite (St. John), and finally a virgin tomb. He wants also a little virgin spouse…
PRAY TO THE SACRED HEART; YOU KNOW THAT I MYSELF DO NOT SEE THE SACRED HEART AS EVERYBODY ELSE. I think that the Heart of my Spouse is mine alone, just as mine is His alone, and I speak to Him then in the solitude of this delightful heart to heart, while waiting to contemplate Him one day face to face …”
- Letter of St. Therese 122
St. Therese had a beautiful devotion to the Sacred Heart. She found in this devotion a union of her heart with the Heart of her Savior and she greatly desired to love Christ with her entire being. To have a virginal heart meant that her love for Christ was all consuming and pre-eminent. She promised to send down a shower of roses from heaven and that she would spend her heaven doing good on earth. Let us pray that St. Therese might increase in our hearts a great and all-consuming love for God!
“Dear Celine, I always have the same thing to say to you. Ah! LET US PRAY FOR PRIESTS; each day shows how few the friends of Jesus are… It seems to me this is what He must feel the most, ingratitude, especially when seeing souls who are consecrated to Him giving to others a heart that belongs to Him in so absolute a way…
Celine, LET US MAKE OF OUR HEARTS A LITTLE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS WHERE JESUS MAY COME TO REST… LET US PLANT ONLY LILIES IN OUR GARDEN, yes lilies, and let us allow no other flowers, for other flowers can be cultivated by other souls, but it is virgins alone who can give lilies to Jesus … Virginity is a profound silence from all cares of this earth, not only from useless cares but from all cares. To be virgin we must think only of the spouse, who allows nothing around Him that is not virgin since He willed it to be born of a Virgin Mother, to have a virgin precursor, a virgin foster father, a virgin favorite (St. John), and finally a virgin tomb. He wants also a little virgin spouse…
PRAY TO THE SACRED HEART; YOU KNOW THAT I MYSELF DO NOT SEE THE SACRED HEART AS EVERYBODY ELSE. I think that the Heart of my Spouse is mine alone, just as mine is His alone, and I speak to Him then in the solitude of this delightful heart to heart, while waiting to contemplate Him one day face to face …”
- Letter of St. Therese 122
