Apostleship of Prayer - Saints
October 15 - Teresa the Child Jesus
Teresa was born in 1873 in Alencon in France. While still young she entered the Carmelite Monastery at Lisieux. There she entered upon an uneventful life that consisted mainly of prayer and hard domestic work. In this convent she practised the virtues of humility, simplicity and a firm confidence in God. Teresa said that she came to Carmel to save souls and to pray for priests.
Teresa sought to serve others, to do something outside of herself and to forget herself in quiet acts of love. Preoccupation with self separates the modern from God, from their fellow beings and ultimately from self: Teresa learnt to forget self, to contemplate God and to serve others. These are the simple insights of Teresa and they are just as valid today as they were in her time.
Offering her life for the salvation of souls and for the spreading of the faith in the missions, she died in the year 1897. She is noted for her book, The Story of a Soul.
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