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Friday, September 7, 2018

In Love with The Divine Outcast - Page 15

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To us, if only we have immense desires for holiness, how comforting are such words as these!

During the closing days of her life, St. Little Thérèse said "I feel that my misssion is soon to begin―my mission to make others love God as I love Him . . . to teach souls my Little Way." "And what is that little way that you would teach to souls?" "It is the Way of Spiritual Childhood, the Way of Trust and absolute Self-surrender. I want to point out to them the means that I have always found so perfectly successful, to tell them that there is but one thing to do here below; we must offer Jesus the flowers of little sacrifices and win Him by caresses. That is how I have won Him, and that is why I shall be made so welcome."

His Holiness Pope Benedict XV, with his twofold authority as Father and Head of the Church, said of the Little Way of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, "It is our special desire that the Secret of Sanctity―the way of Spiritual Childhood―should be disclosed to all Our Children . . . IN SPIRITUAL CHILDHOOD IS THE SECRET OF SANCTITY." And our late Holy Father, Pope Pius XI, has said: "Spiritual Childhood is not only possible but easy to all." What an encouragement to live a life of absolute Trust and Self-surrender!

But all holiness presupposes an austerity richly prolific of abnegation and self-sacrifice. (Turn Page ☛☛)



"IN LOVE WITH THE DIVINE OUTCAST."
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