{"id":2767,"date":"2026-10-08T19:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/kabarsula-why-st-therese-of-lisieux-who-never-traveled-is-a-patroness-for-the-missions-michael-r-heinlein-bandar-slot-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:56:32","slug":"kabarsula-why-st-therese-of-lisieux-who-never-traveled-is-a-patroness-for-the-missions-michael-r-heinlein-bandar-slot-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/kabarsula-why-st-therese-of-lisieux-who-never-traveled-is-a-patroness-for-the-missions-michael-r-heinlein-bandar-slot-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"kabarsula Why St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux (who never traveled) is a patroness for the missions \u2014 Michael R. Heinlein bandar SLOT INDONESIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The famed French saint, St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux, affectionately known by devotees as “The Little Flower,” born Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Martin, is pictured in the Carmel of Lisieux on an undated photograph. Two years after St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se became the first saint he canonized, and one year after he established World Mission Sunday, Pope Pius XI in 1927 formally declared her the Patroness of the Missions, although she never left the convent’s cloister. (OSV News\/Carmel de Lisieux)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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There is an apparent contradiction, at first glance, between the fact that St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux<\/a> never left her Carmelite monastery and yet is patroness of missionary activity.<\/p>\n

As she related in her spiritual autobiography \u201cStory of a Soul,\u201d St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se noted that charity was the \u201ckey\u201d to her vocation. \u201cI understood \u2026 that the Church has a heart, and a heart on fire with love,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

It was this heart ablaze that she desired to share with the world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLike the Prophets and Doctors, I would be a light unto souls, I would travel to every land to preach Thy name, O my Beloved, and raise on heathen soil the glorious standard of Thy Cross,\u201d she wrote. \u201cOne mission alone would not satisfy my longings. I would spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth, even to the most distant isles. I would be a Missionary, not for a few years only, but, were it possible, from the beginning of the world till the consummation of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blessed Fulton J. Sheen, longtime promoter of the missions as national director for the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, summarized this desire in his book \u201cArchbishop Fulton Sheen\u2019s St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se: A Treasured Love Story,\u201d saying: \u201cThis woman was in love, and she wanted her Beloved known all over the world. That\u2019s why she loved the missions! \u2026 Love makes one a missionary. When we cease to love, we cease to be a missionary.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the approach of the 100th anniversary of World Mission Sunday Oct. 18<\/a>, it is worth getting to know better this patroness of the missions.<\/p>\n

Before becoming a Discalced Carmelite nun as a teenager, Marie Fran\u00e7oise-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Martin was simply Th\u00e9r\u00e8se \u2014 the youngest daughter of two future saints. Her family was the context in which St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux began to discover her \u201cLittle Way\u201d of holiness for which she\u2019s so well known. From an early age, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se learned to accept all as grace and providence, and to rely solely on God\u2019s will to find her peace. St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se teaches us that holiness is found in doing little things consistently and with great love.<\/p>\n

Th\u00e9r\u00e8se was born the ninth child of Sts. Louis and Z\u00e9lie Martin on Jan. 2, 1873, in Alen\u00e7on, France. Louis would lose his wife to breast cancer four years later, and his brother-in-law helped arrange for the widower\u2019s family to move north to Lisieux.<\/p>\n

During her childhood, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se was considered weak and unusual. At the age of 9, she became so sick that it appeared the end was near. Her father even requested Masses at Our Lady of Victories Church in Paris, and her family kept vigil at her bedside. As three sisters were leading prayers of intercession to the Blessed Mother in front of the family\u2019s statue of her, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se experienced a miracle: The statue began to smile at her. She was healed.<\/p>\n

Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and her four older sisters (her other four siblings did not survive infancy), discovered God\u2019s call to the religious life. And Th\u00e9r\u00e8se was quite insistent upon doing God\u2019s will as soon as possible, despite the many difficulties she encountered on that path.<\/p>\n

Refused entry to the Carmelite convent in Lisieux because of her young age, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se seemingly could not contain the zeal with which her soul desired total union with Christ. She even used a meeting with Pope Leo XIII during a pilgrimage to Rome as an opportunity to seek his assistance. The pope replied, \u201cWell, my child, do what the superiors decide. \u2026 You will enter if it is God\u2019s will.\u201d The local bishop later gave his consent for her to enter the Lisieux Carmel when she was 15.<\/p>\n

Life in the Carmel of Lisieux was taxing for Th\u00e9r\u00e8se. Living with the other nuns was not always easy. She was maligned and mistreated. But it was there that Th\u00e9r\u00e8se found her \u201cLittle Way.\u201d Entering the convent with a desire for spiritual greatness, her attitude slowly changed, writing in her diary: \u201cI applied myself especially to practice little virtues, not having the facility to perform great ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

In \u201cStory of a Soul,\u201d published in 1898 about a year after her death, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se explained the \u201cLittle Way\u201d more: \u201cBut how shall I show my love, since love proves itself by deeds? \u2026 The only way I have of proving my love is to strew flowers before Thee \u2013 that is to say, I will let no tiny sacrifice pass, no look, no word. I wish to profit by the smallest actions, and to do them for Love.\u201d Among the names she\u2019s known by today is \u201cthe Little Flower.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finding blood in her handkerchief, she experienced \u201cjoy,\u201d and awaited death as the final act in her complete union with Christ. Dying from tuberculosis, she taught of suffering\u2019s purpose: \u201cI have reached a point where I can no longer suffer, because all suffering is become so sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Th\u00e9r\u00e8se experienced intense physical suffering and offered it all to the Lord, in union with his to the end \u2014 uttering as she breathed her last, \u201cMy God, I love you!\u201d She died on Sept. 30, 1897. She was 24.<\/p>\n

The simplicity and practical approach to the spiritual life of St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux make her among the most popular saints in the Church, and the universality of her message reached a pinnacle in 1997 when Pope St. John Paul II declared her a doctor of the Church.<\/p>\n

Two years after St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se became the first saint he canonized \u2014 and one year after he established World Mission Sunday \u2014 Pope Pius XI in 1927 formally declared \u201cthe Little Flower\u201d the Patroness of the Missions. Her feast day is Oct. 1.<\/p>\n

Michael R. Heinlein is author of \u201cGlorifying Christ: The Life of Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I.\u201d and a promised member of the Association of Pauline Cooperators.<\/em><\/p>\n

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