Why St Thérèse and Her “Little Way” Will Change Your Life
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
How is it that a young French girl who entered the convent at 15 years old and died at only 24 years old would become a Doctor of the Church? How is it that on her deathbed her own sisters thought her life was so unremarkable that they struggled to write her obituary?
Today, Fr. Mike reflects on how the "Little Way" of St. Thérèse of Lisieux contains a secret to holiness for every modern Catholic.
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| 0:00.0 | Tres of Lissue is fascinating in so many ways. |
| 0:02.8 | How many names father Mike Schmitz and this is a sentient presence. |
| 0:13.8 | So I was recently reflecting on this young girl, she had her feast day a couple days ago. |
| 0:19.6 | October 1st, her name is St. Tres of Lissue. |
| 0:21.5 | The day before the feast of St. Tres in the Catholic Church, we also have the feast of |
| 0:24.7 | St. Jerome. |
| 0:25.7 | So I think September 30th, the Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church. |
| 0:29.0 | Like one of the greatest minds the Church has ever known. |
| 0:31.9 | I think St. Augustine said about who is one of the geniuses, right? |
| 0:35.1 | St. Augustine said about St. Jerome that if Jerome doesn't know it, no one in the world |
| 0:39.2 | knows it. |
| 0:40.2 | That kind of thing. |
| 0:41.2 | So massive mind, hugely influential, gave us the translation of the Bible from Greek |
| 0:46.3 | and Hebrew into Latin so that people could understand it and read it, hear it and get |
| 0:50.7 | it. |
| 0:51.7 | So great. |
| 0:52.7 | The next day is the feast of this girl, St. Tres, who is also a Doctor of the Church. |
| 0:58.8 | But it boggles the mind in some ways why she is a Doctor of the Church. |
| 1:03.1 | Does Dr. St. Jerome make sense? |
| 1:04.7 | St. Jerome, yeah, translate the Bible, teach all these things that you know in the fourth |
| 1:08.3 | century that no one knew that people were just trying to still try to figure out about |
| 1:12.2 | God and about Jesus and all these things. |
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