The message additionally recalled the nice trial of religion the saint skilled over the last 12 months and a half of her life, beginning with the primary signs of tuberculosis, the sickness that will ultimately take her life on the age of 24.
“Her account reveals the heroic nature of her religion, her triumph in religious fight with essentially the most highly effective temptations,” he wrote. “She felt herself a sister to atheists, seated with them at desk, like Jesus who sat with sinners. She interceded for them, ever renewing her personal act of religion, in fixed loving communion with the Lord.”
“Even in her darkness, she skilled the entire belief of a kid that finds refuge, unafraid, within the embrace of its father and mom.”
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Pope Francis’ letter additionally emphasised the Carmelite saint’s humility and her religious revelation that her “vocation is Love.”
“This coronary heart was not that of a triumphalistic Church, however of a loving, humble and merciful Church,” he wrote. “Therese by no means set herself above others, however took the bottom place along with the Son of God, who for our sake turned a slave and humbled himself, turning into obedient, even to dying on a cross”
“This discovery of the guts of the Church can be a terrific supply of sunshine for us at this time,” the pope stated. “It preserves us from being scandalized by the restrictions and weaknesses of the ecclesiastical establishment with its shadows and sins, and allows us to enter into the Church’s ‘coronary heart burning with love’, which burst into flame at Pentecost because of the reward of the Holy Spirit.”
“It’s that coronary heart,” he continued, “whose hearth is rekindled with every of our acts of charity. ‘I shall be love.’ This was the novel possibility of Therese, her definitive synthesis and her deepest religious id.”
Stating the saint’s enduring relevance, Francis wrote that “in an age that urges us to deal with ourselves and our personal pursuits, Therese reveals us the fantastic thing about making our lives a present. At a time when essentially the most superficial wants and wishes are glorified, she testifies to the radicalism of the Gospel. In an age of individualism, she makes us uncover the worth of a love that turns into intercession for others.”
“At a time when human beings are obsessive about grandeur and new types of energy, she factors out to us the little manner,” he continued. “In an age that casts apart so lots of our brothers and sisters, she teaches us the fantastic thing about concern and accountability for each other.”
“At a time of nice complexity, she can assist us rediscover the significance of simplicity, absolutely the primacy of affection, belief and abandonment, and thus transfer past a legalistic or moralistic mindset that will fill the Christian life with guidelines and laws, and trigger the enjoyment of the Gospel to develop chilly.”
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