She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January 1873 died at Lisieux 30 September 1897. I preferred to repeat to the good God, “It’s not my desire to see you here on earth.She is also known as St. Supernatural graces have never attracted me.
On the contrary, I was very proud that the good Lord did concern himself with me. I rarely had any consolation, nor did I ever long for it. You could say that I spent my whole religious life in this dryness. I felt it only once in my life, and the dryness returned to my heart very quickly. We read it in their biographies Mother knows it well. One second more and I would surely be dead.īesides, my mother, the saints have felt it many times. There is no comparison to understand the intensity of this flame from Heaven. I don’t know how to express this burning. I was beginning to do the Way of the Cross in the choir when suddenly I was wounded by an arrow of fire so full of heat that I thought I was going to die. “It was a few days after I had offered myself to Merciful Love,” Sister Thérèse told her mother superior, Agnes. Thérèse of the Child Jesus wounded by a fiery arrow Such a situation occurs when the human soul is completely immersed in love, and is drawn by this love into an intimate union with God. In these cases, a fiery angel pierces the person’s heart with an arrowhead or a spear ignited by the fire of love.
John of the Cross, who taught that a soul inflamed with love for God is assaulted internally by a Seraph. When I expressed my regret for this, she repeated: “My Mother did not hurt me, I only thought that the good God allowed it for my greater good,” Thérèse admitted, as simple as ever.Īfter a while, she related in detail the event that is often called the Seraph’s assault, after St. Then she looked at me with a tender smile and said: ‘My Mother, I told this to my Mother that very day and my Mother hardly listened to me. Then, in 1897, I wanted her to repeat to me in the infirmary what she had told me in 1895 about this wound of love. She asked boldly, and Thérèse, with her typical simplicity, answered Mother, who remembers it thus: Two years later, shortly before her sister’s death, the case haunted her.
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