Simple Deeds
Mood:  happy
Topic: Saint Benedict

When one is sent on a retreat, it can mean many things to each person.
We all need time to be alone with ourselves; even if it is the last thing we want to do.

This retreat of mine took place in vermont ONE month before 9/11
As a matter of fact it 8/11 when I went in for moorning prayer. The sun had yet to rise and I could only think of how beautiful my surroundings were. I was noticing how the moon was sailing along as I walked the path. How hushed all things were and that no one else on the entire planet was where I was at this time.
How quickly I forgot this quiet in just a month.
That is why we must be in the present and not really think that the busy world is the most important world. All we must do is look back and see how quickly man's dreams fall away.

Dear Therese
Mood:  bright
Topic: Religious/Saints
Who is Saint Therese?
Who is The Little Flower and how can she help you?

Sain Therese of Lisieux lived only 24 years.

Her mother and Father, Louis and Zellie were very Holy Parents.
They gave birth to nine children but only five lived.

There Was Paulin, Marie, Leonine, Celine and Therese.

Zellie Martin died when Therese was only four years
old.

After Zelli's death, Therese adopted Pauline to be her "God" mother but by the age of 12 Pauline had left to enter the Carmel in Lisieux.

Therese was so affected by this loss she grew very ill and it wasn't until the Virgin of The Smile
had performed a miracle that Therese was healed
completely.

At the age of 15 after much upset and suffering,
Therese was able to enter Carmel and join her sisters
Pauline and Marie.

Celine stayed behind to take care of Louis Martin who
suffered a stroke and also suffered from a mental illness.
Some blamed Therese for her father's illness, but he was happy to see her go.

Therese suffered from Tuberculosis and she first began to split up blood on a Good Friday.

Her superior did not realize how serious this condition was,until the doctors had confirmed it.

Therese died on September 30th, 1897.
She was made a Doctor of The Church in 1997 by Pope
John Paul ll mostly because of her "Little Way."

Her Little way is described in her Auto-biography
"The Story of a Soul."

Saint Therese promised that after she died she would,