St.Thérèse & Trauma: The Real Story of Her Soul (Part 1)
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you know the real story of St. Thérèse of Lisieux? Dr. Sri delves into the depth of St. Thérèse's life, highlighting her profound sufferings, trauma, and family challenges. Dr. Sri explains how these adversities became the very context in which she encountered God’s grace and mercy—shaping the heart of her spirituality, the “Little Way.”
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
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| 0:12.1 | Hi, I'm Edwards Sari, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:24.1 | Do you know the real |
| 0:25.7 | St. Therese? And do you know the real story of her soul? |
| 0:30.3 | I think many of us might have a plastic statue understanding of |
| 0:34.0 | Therese. What do I mean by that? I remember as a kid growing up at Catholic schools, |
| 0:37.3 | there'd be these plastic statues of St. Torres, and she's in her habit, holding a cross |
| 0:41.4 | and a bunch of flowers, and she's smiling at you, is it to say, hey, look at me, check out my flowers. |
| 0:45.7 | And I think we can have a kind of artificial plastic knowledge of St. Therese. That's not bad, |
| 0:51.8 | but it's not the full story, and it doesn't capture her full |
| 0:57.2 | humanity and how God met her in her humanness and did amazing things in it. So, for example, |
| 1:04.5 | you may have heard about Therese and her little way, her spirituality of the little way, |
| 1:08.5 | doing little things with great love and the way of spiritual |
| 1:11.8 | childhood and trust. And that's beautiful. And you may have heard about how she said, I want to |
| 1:17.1 | spend my heaven doing good on earth, or how she had this great vocation to love and how many |
| 1:23.4 | Christians will do novenas today. And the last St. Teres, give me a white rose for a signed |
| 1:29.3 | so I know what to do this or give me a red rose if I'm supposed to do something else. |
| 1:33.3 | These are the many popular things about St. Teres that many of us might be aware of, but do you know |
| 1:38.5 | the real Therese and the deeper story of her life. Do you know the profound suffering she endured? |
| 1:47.2 | Not at the end of her life. That's a fascinating story. I did a podcast on that last year on this, |
| 1:52.5 | but I'm talking about the suffering from her childhood that left a deep mark, a deep wound |
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