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Discover the burning secrets of St. Therese's soul
Scores of books have been written about St. Therese of Lisieux, but this is the first aimed at those persons, Catholic or not, who resist her, put off by all those roses and crudely painted plastic statues . . . and even by her virtues. (Not long before she died, Therese's confessor assured her she had never committed a mortal sin!)
Author Henri Gheon was once among those put off by Therese's sweet reputation and by the tinseled, sugary devotions to this "little saint." Then he discovered how many good Catholics, at home in such simple devotions, were soon freed, without even realizing it, from the pretty-pretties that led them on, fnding the real Therese beneath the sugar roses and puffy clouds, behind the platitudes and pet-names that took all the salt out of her heroic story.
They discovered as will readers of these remarkable pages the real Therese of Lisieux, an intense soul living a life of heroic grandeur amidst dull and all-too-worldly associates, a soul driven by a burning love of God even as she wrestled privately with great physical and emotional pain.
That, shows Gheon, is what lay behind her smile. That's why she was canonized. And that's why Therese is the saint most fitted for our day, a model for those of us whom, whether we like it or not, God has called to hidden lives of quiet drama, desire, and holy sacrifce.
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Henri Ghéon was a French playwright, critic, and poet. He was educated in Sens, but he moved to Paris to study medicine in 1893, when he began writing poetry. In 1909, he became a founding member of and a regular contributor to the French literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), The New French Review. While serving as a doctor in the army during the First World War, Ghéon returned to his Catholic faith and thereafter devoted much of his writing to the lives of the saints. His vivid descriptions of the saints and the times and places in which they lived bring these holy people to life for today s readers and inspire devotion to them and a desire to imitate their example.
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- PublisherSophia Institute Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 193318468X
- ISBN 13 9781933184685
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages168
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