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Fr. Chris' Journal:

Saint Therese of Lisieux

I am writing these thoughts on the Feast Day of St. Therese of Lisieux, who is the patron saint of the missions even though she entered a Carmelite monastery at the age of fifteen and died at there at the very early age of twenty four. She talked of a great desire to be a missionary 'I would want to preach the Gospel on all five continents simultaneously and even to the remotest isles. I would be a missionary ...from the beginning of Creation until the consummation of the ages.'

This would seem a strange, even sad desire which remained unfulfilled for someone who lived her life in an enclosed order and yet... And yet next year her relics are being brought to this country to allow people to venerate them and be inspired by her holy life. And this is not the first country where this has taken place.

Father Chris Gorton