Secrets and advice of Santa Teresa that make you a good Christian
Bear the faults of others, do not be surprised by their weaknesses and instead build up the smallest acts that you see done;
Don't worry about being judged well by others;
Do for unpleasant people, all that would be done for nicer people;
Never apologize or defend yourself against accusations;
Do not be disheartened in seeing oneself weak and imperfect, on the contrary to have cause for joy because Jesus covers the multitude of sins;
Give to those who ask with malagrazia responding with kindness;
Be happy if they take something of ours or ask us for a service that is not up to us, be happy to interrupt a work in progress for charity;
Spiritual goods are also a gift that does not belong to us, so we must be happy if someone appropriates our intuitions or prayers;
Do not seek human consolations but leave everything to God;
When a task seems superior to our strength, put ourselves in the arms of Jesus knowing that alone we are not capable of anything;
If you have to take someone back, accept the suffering of having to do it while feeling incapable and not up to it;
Do not try to attract the hearts of others to yourself but lead them to God by useless servants;
Don't be afraid to be severe if there is no need, always pray before saying something;
In dryness, recite the Pater and the Ave very slowly;
Accept humiliation and criticism with gratitude;
Seek the company of people less liked by others;
To offer the Lord the things that cost us trying to please us;
Accept that your work is not considered;
The more the fire of God's love will set our hearts on fire, the closer the souls will come to us will run after the love of God;
To suffer moment by moment what God sends us, without worrying about the future.
Saint Teresa of Lisieux
Alençon (France), 2 January 1873 - Lisieux, 30 September 1897
Virgin and doctor of the Church: still a teenager in the Carmel of Lisieux in France, she became a teacher of holiness in Christ for purity and simplicity of life, teaching the way of spiritual childhood to reach Christian perfection and placing every mystical concern at the service of salvation of the souls and growth of the Church. He ended his life on September 30, at the age of twenty-five.
NOVENA OF THE ROSES
“I will spend my Heaven doing good on earth. I will bring down a shower of roses "(Santa Teresa)
Father Putigan on December 3 1925, he began a novena asking for an important grace. To find out if he was being answered, he asked for a sign. He wished to receive a rose as a guarantee of having obtained grace. He didn't say a word to anyone about the novena he was doing. On the third day, he received the requested rose and obtained the pardon. Another novena began. He received another rose and another grace. Then he made the decision to spread the "miraculous" novena called roses.
PRAYER FOR THE NOVENA OF THE ROSES
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I thank you for all the favors and graces with which you have enriched the soul of your servant Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face, Doctor of the Church, during her twenty-four years spent on this land and, for the merits of your Holy Servant, grant me grace (here the formula that you want to obtain is formulated), if it conforms to your Holy will and for the good of my soul.
Help my faith and my hope, O Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face; once again fulfill your promise to spend your heaven doing good on earth, allowing me to receive a rose as a sign of the grace that I wish to obtain.
24 "Glory to the Father" are recited in thanksgiving to God for the gifts granted to Teresa in the twenty-four years of her earthly life. The invocation follows each "Glory":
Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face, pray for us.
Repeat for nine consecutive days.
PRAYER TO SANTA TERESA DI LISIEUX
Dear little Teresa of the Child Jesus, great Saint of pure love of God, I come today to confide my ardent desire to you. Yes, very humble I come to solicit your powerful intercession for the following grace ... (express it).
Shortly before dying, you asked God to be able to spend your Heaven doing good on earth. You also promised to spread a shower of roses on us, the little ones. The Lord has answered your prayer: thousands of pilgrims testify it in Lisieux and throughout the world. Strengthened by this certainty that you do not reject the little ones and the afflicted, I come with confidence to solicit your help. Intercede for me with your Crucified and glorious Bridegroom. Tell him my wish. He will listen to you, because you have never refused him anything on earth.
Little Teresa, victim of love for the Lord, patroness of missions, model of simple and confident souls, I turn to you as a very powerful and very loving big sister. Obtain for me the grace that I ask of you, if this is the will of God. Be blessed, little Teresa, for all the good that you have done to us and you wish to do our best to the end of the world.
Yes, be blessed and thanked a thousand times for making us touch in some way the goodness and mercy of our God! Amen.