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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Theresa of the Child Jesus
DESCRIPTION:THE CHILD DESTINED \nTO BE A SAINT \nFrom “The Hidden Face: A Life of Thérèse of Lisieux” by Ida Goerres \n◊◊◊ \nTo what extent little Thérèse had\, in the depths of her self\, really \nrenounced her beloved sister…is revealed clearly enough by her own description \nof the agonies suffered in the visiting room at the Carmel… Thérèse resigned \nherself to her sister’s abandonment…but in the dark\, speechless abysses of the \nblood all the forces of nature rebelled\, immoderately and irreconcilably\, against \nthis deprivation… \nThe demonic influence…should be perceived in the uncanny struggle that \nmust have gone on in the unconscious depths of her soul… A crisis which \nproduces a state of confusion and agitation in body and soul\, which attacks \nsimultaneously a person’s alertness\, confidence\, presence of mind and powers \nof resistance\, can at the same time…also mean a grave temptation\, a diabolical \ninvitation to discouragement in the face of life. It can lead to stifling inhibitions\, \nto erroneous interpretations of the self\, to lifelong hypochondria about one’s \n“weak” sides — all attitudes which may later on hinder radical\, heroic \ncommitment… She was terrified by the incomprehensible forces that \noverwhelmed her. \nNevertheless\, we believe that a decision must have taken place deep \nwithin her when\, in the midst of her direst distress\, the saving grace of the vision \nof Mary shone upon her. We believe that at this point Thérèse was confronted \nwith a temptation\, for all that it was hidden in the unplumbed depths of her \nsoul. For here she was confronted with alternatives\, and the second of these was \nthe perilous one. She could accept the offered comfort\, the new support and \nprotection. That is\, she could abandon her wild despair over what she had lost\, \ncould really carry out the unendurable renunciation within the core of her ego\, \ncould release the hand of Pauline and reach across the irrevocable gulf for the \nhand of the Blessed Virgin. Or…she could cling to her despair\, could hold tight \nto her neurosis\, could maintain her protest… \nSuch decisions take place not by deliberate processes of thought\, but far \nbelow such strata of thoughts and words\, by a lightning-like opening or closing \nat the core of our being. \nPrecisely here we see the child destined to be a saint: not that the miracle \nhappened to her\, but that she obeyed it. She did ‘the right thing’…in simple \nobedience… She was beyond all human aid and almost insane with fear because \nher state of abandonment was so incomprehensible to her. And yet\, through all \nthis\, her submissive heart clung\, uncomprehendingly and tormentedly\, but \nprayerfully and trustfully\, to God. \nIn this case\, too\, she learned the lesson that was later to be enunciated \nagain and again in her spiritual message to the world: that grace can do \nanything\, that grace offered\, vouchsafed out of pure mercy\, not to be won by any \ndegree of struggle; that acceptance of and dependence upon this grace is man’s \ncrucial ‘act’ which will save him gloriously when all toil and effort\, all exercise of \nwill in renunciation\, cannot help him to overcome his innate nature. To be sure\, \nshe did not yet unconsciously know this\, would not know it for a long time to \ncome. But she had experienced it; this lesson had entered her very being and \ncould no longer be expunged.
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