Love, Tears, and Promises
Watched Thé rèse on EWTN tonight, and just about cried my eyes out. Saint Thérèse of Lisieux is my Confirmation saint; I have read her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, and know about her life, but only the bare bones of it. The film gave her story such a vividness and breath to really drive home how extraordinary she was. She was so young, but so passionately in love with God. She said it herself in the movie: "I don't need to grow up." Biologically, she never did; tuberculosis claimed her when she was twenty-four...one year older than I am now. Nor did she ever grow up spiritually, and in that she truly embodied Jesus' words to his disciples: "He said to them, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it'" (Mark 10:14-15). She promised to spend her heaven doing go...