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The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: The Story of a Soul
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St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower, was only 24 years old when she died in 1897. Yet her writings continue to have a tremendous impact throughout the world, making her one of the most popular of all spiritual writers.
Sharing memories from early childhood through her life as a Carmelite nun, Thérèse opens her heart to ...more
St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower, was only 24 years old when she died in 1897. Yet her writings continue to have a tremendous impact throughout the world, making her one of the most popular of all spiritual writers.
Sharing memories from early childhood through her life as a Carmelite nun, Thérèse opens her heart to ...more
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May 26th 2006
by St. Anthony Messenger Press
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“My vocation is love!” (Beevers 155) The Story of a Soul is a writing meant to be an autobiography but is more a witness to the love of a soul that can shape our own lives. St. Therese of Lisieux, living in France at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, reveals that God reaches out, even to us, in our world of busy-ness, in our own mundane and ordinary lives, to the smallness of our existence and that our own reaching back can bring us a glorious holiness and such a closeness to Je
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I listened to this in the car and it took a few weeks to listen to it all so I think it was really disjointed for me. And sometimes I'd get distracted by driving or life, etc so I don't think I always listened very closely. The first part of the book where Therese talks about her childhood was interesting but I must say I don't warm up to overwrought flowery language. I found her descriptions emotional and almost cloying. The latter part of the book somehow seemed much more mature and I think pr
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