Day 5: The Most Difficult Years (Story of a Soul)

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🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The experience of loneliness is one that many people can relate to. What St. Thérèse describes as her “saddest” years are marked with loneliness. Her years at school found St. Thérèse without many friends and even bullied. Another element of her suffering in these years was the entrance of Pauline into Carmel. Fr. Jacob-Bertrand and Fr. Michael-Joseph ponder the hardships that St. Thérèse endured and how God’s presence was evident throughout them.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.
0:07.0	And I'm Father Michael Joseph Paris.
0:09.3	And you are listening to the Catholic Classics Podcast, where we seek to grow our interior lives by learning from the church's greatest Saints and teachers.
0:17.0	Each season will read through a great work, explain its spiritual principles, and help you apply its timeless wisdom to your life.
0:24.6	The Catholic Classics Podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:28.2	This season we're reading Ascension's edition of Story of A Soul by St. Torres of Liseu.
0:33.0	A few reminders before we get started.
0:35.0	To download the reading plan for Story of a Soul,
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1:03.4	support. This is day five. Today we will be reading chapter three pages 89 through
1:08.9	98 in the ascension edition of the book. Before we get into the readings, though, let us take a quick look at what we're covering today.
1:17.0	First, where we're at right now is Torres is recounting what she calls the saddest years of her life at the Abbey School and then
1:24.4	the kind of anecdotes she has of her games with Saline and her cousins as well as
1:29.1	the very heartbreaking departure of her sister Pauline for Carmel. And I think you could say the
1:35.0	major themes could be the struggles at school and the experience of isolation
1:39.9	would be one and then her friendship with Saline, her sister, how close that was and also
1:44.8	with her cousin Marie, and how that sustained her throughout those difficult years. And then
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