Live St. Thérèse’s Little Way and Climb to Heaven in God’s Arms
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St. Thérèse of Lisieux just moments after she died Sept. 30, 1897. (photo: Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons)
By Thomas Griffin, National Catholic Register, October 1, 2024
Thomas Griffin is the chair of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island, where he lives with his wife and sons. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World (OSV, September 2024).
COMMENTARY: Practical prayer-life applications for daily life from the Little Flower.
The witness and words of St. Thérèse of Lisieux have captivated millions of lives. Her writings and life have drawn countless souls into contemplating the mysteries of God, but her life’s mission was so simple: She was convinced of the “Little Way.”
In describing her arrival at her own vocational awareness, Thérèse wrote in her autobiography:
I understood that it was love alone that made the Church’s members act, that if love ever became extinct, apostles would not preach the Gospel and martyrs would not shed their blood. I understood that love comprised all vocations, that love was everything … in a word that it was eternal. Then, in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: Oh Jesus, my love … my vocation, at last I have found it: My vocation is love. …
