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October 1: ST. THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX: Small Things, Great Love
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St. Thérèse of Lisieux discovered that holiness isn't about grand gestures — it's about small things done with great love. As a teenager, Thérèse felt every joy and sorrow so deeply it nearly overwhelmed her, until one quiet Christmas night changed her completely. Inside the Carmelite convent, she found her calling not in dramatic penances but in her Little Way — smiling at an irritating sister, offering a headache without complaint, and simply talking to Jesus the way you'd talk to a friend. "I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast, where we know that every day is a feast day. Today is October 1st, the Feast of St. Therese. So join me for St. Therese of Lesus, Small Things with Great Love. The stairs were cold under her feet.
stood at the top gripping the railing, listening. Below her, Christmas gifts were waiting by the fireplace the way they did every year. Then her father's voice drifted up from the parlor.
"'Thank goodness this will be the last year,' he said, tiredly. She really is too old for this sort of thing." Therese was 13.
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