Join Us for Holy Mass

Join us at the St. Teresa Campus of St. John Paul II Parish, where there is a relic of St. Therese of Lisieux, for the Novena to St. Therese, "the Little Flower," the nine days preceding her feast day, October 1st. St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face  was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France, to Saints Louis and Zelie Martin. She entered the Carmelite convent in Lisieux at the age of 15 and died on September 30, 1897, at the age of 24. She  was canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 17,1925, only 28 years after her death, and was declared a doctor of the Church by Pope St. John Paul II. She is the co-patron saint of the missions and is known for her writing on "the little way":  "I will seek out a means of getting to Heaven by a little way – very short and very straight little way that is wholly new. We live in an age of inventions; nowadays the rich need not trouble to climb the stairs, they have lifts instead. Well, I mean to try and find a lift by which I may be raised unto God, for I am too tiny to climb the steep stairway of perfection. […] Thine Arms, then, O Jesus, are the lift which must raise me up even unto Heaven. To get there I need not grow. On the contrary, I must remain little, I must become still less" (cf. The Story of a Soul). 

St. Therese of Lisieux, pray for us!