Bonus Episode: Prologue (Story of a Soul)

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

To help set the scene for the autobiography of St. Thérèse, Fr. Michael-Joseph provides an introduction to the prologue of Story of a Soul. His introduction is followed by the reading of the prologue. In the prologue, we are given a deeper look at the family of St. Thérèse’s, especially her parents. The prologue also gives insight into the first year of St. Thérèse’s life.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone this is Father Michael Joseph Paris with a bonus episode of
0:08.0	season 3 where you'll listen to the prologue of Story of a Soul.
0:11.2	Before we dive in I just wanted to share a few notes about this section and its significance
0:16.4	in setting up the scene and rounding out the text.
0:19.7	First, the prologue really gives a sense of the context from which St. Torres came, and we especially the by the way. They were the first married couple canonized together and very recently too just in 2015 and as has been pointed out in the past
0:38.1	They're not Saints because of Torres, but she is a saint because of them.
0:43.2	Very important to keep that in mind.
0:45.2	And in the prologue, we get an overview of their life and family,
0:48.4	the trials they went through, and their beautiful Catholic faith
0:51.4	that define their whole life together.
0:53.8	You could really boil down the spirituality of Saints Louis and Zellie to the sovereignty of God,
1:00.0	confidence in divine providence, and abandonment to God's will.
1:04.0	They believed in the unconditional love of God
1:07.0	no matter what circumstances they were in.
1:09.0	They did not let the misfortunes of their life
1:11.0	chip away at their deep sense of God's goodness and his love for them.
1:15.6	In fact, they had a firm belief that living through their difficulties and not rebelling against
1:20.9	the trials that God allowed for them that this contributed to the salvation of the world.
1:26.0	Finally in the prologue we'll hear of the children born to them and the arrival of the youngest,
1:32.0	Terez Martin, who will now speak to us
1:34.5	through the rest of the book.
1:35.8	Prologg.
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