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This is not so much the story of a soul, but the story of a love, the treasured love the Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen had for his dear St. Therese of Lisieux, his "Little Flower".Because of this intimacy and the unfathomable admiration he had for her, what lies between these pages is nothing short of remarkable, not to mention utterly captivating. Readers will find themselves moved in various ways, many of them unexpected. They will cry penitential tears, quake with happy laughter, shake their heads in disbelief, and experience an unquenchable yearning to imitate and experience the sort of closeness that both Sheen and Therese had with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The archbishop helps us realize just why St. Therese really is the "greatest saint of modern times," and is among the greatest theologians the Church has ever produced. Using her example, he also explains the power of intercessory prayer, the necessity of virtue, how to put our suffering to good use, how to fight Satan's influence, and how to grow in our relationship with God and our love for one another. In short, by reading this book, you will learn how to be a saint from a saint. Dive into this story of a love and see for yourself how it will develop the story of a soul...your own.

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	11 mai 2018
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781505112054
Langue	English

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Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s
St. Thérèse
A T REASURED L OVE S TORY

Fulton J. Sheen
Copyright © 2007 Basilica Press
All rights reserved
Published by Basilica Press
111 Fergus Court, Ste. 102
Irving, TX 75062
The editors have endeavoured to preserve to the greatest extent possible Archbishop Sheen’s words as he spoke them. However, there were places where the editors made slight, non-substantive adjustments for the sake of clarity and greater readability.
Except for brief excerpts in articles or critical reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, recorded, photocopy, or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the copyright owner.
The Scripture verses herein are taken from several translations as Archbishop Sheen quoted from a number of different versions.
Photos of St. Thérèse © Office Central de Lisieux
Photos of Archbishop Fulton Sheen © Diocese of Rochester, NY Editors: Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR, Carolyn Klika, and Brian O’Neel
Interior Design: Giuliana Gerber, ACI Prensa Cover design: Ted Schluenderfritz, Five Sparrows Media ( www.5sparrows.com )
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 978-1-930314-16-0
Basilica Press is part of the Joseph and Marie Daou Foundation
Table of Contents
Introduction
Foreword
The Life of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
The Life of the Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Chapter 1: St. Thérèse the Little Flower, the saint for troubled times
Chapter 2: St. Thérèse and real saints (and how you can be one, too)
Chapter 3: St. Thérèse and the virtues of faith, hope, and perseverance
Chapter 4: St. Thérèse and the power of intercession
Chapter 5: St. Thérèse and the value of suffering
Chapter 6: St. Thérèse and the sword
Chapter 7: St. Thérèse, God, and our relationship with Him
Chapter 8: St. Thérèse and fighting Satan
Chapter 9: St. Thérèse and suffering for the sake of Love
Chapter 10: St. Thérèse and humility, the way of the child
Chapter 11: St. Thérèse, sin, and mercy
Prayers
The Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation
Introduction
This book is meant to celebrate something very special in the Church.
On December 14, 1927, Pope Pius XI proclaimed St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus principal patroness of all missions and all missionaries, the equal to St. Francis Xavier. A
In 2007, the entire Catholic world will celebrate the eightieth anniversary of that happy event with great solemnity. The Shrine of St. Thérèse in Lisieux and the Lisieux Carmel have, in fact, already begun their commemorations.
I mention this fact for two reasons:
1. St. Thérèse, much as she would have loved to, never set foot on mission soil, and yet she most powerfully helped the missions by her heroic prayer and sacrifices. The Pope wanted to highlight this fact and to remind us that we, too, could and should do likewise.
2. The Servant of God Archbishop Fulton Sheen, whose great love was the Catholic missions, was also very aware of the missionary power of Carmelite contemplatives such as St. Thérèse. In fact, his life-long correspondence with the Carmelite Sisters in New Albany, Indiana, is fully reserved in his Rochester archives. Very revealingly, he wrote to the Carmelite prioress, “Your prayers and sufferings do more good than all our preaching and our hectic actions. We make the noise; we get the credit; we enjoy the consolation of a victory seen and tasted. You are responsible for it and yet you cannot see the fruits—but you will, on that day when the Cross appears in the heavens and every man is rewarded according to his works.” He also wrote, “I want to cling on to Carmel for I love its love of Jesus. I refuse to give it up, and like the blind man of Jericho, I shall go on shouting out to you continually to cure my blindness and my ills.”
In 1973, the centenary of St. Thérèse’s birth, I was anxious that we would celebrate this “greatest saint of modern times” in the best possible way. Given his great love of the missions (he was director of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith 1 for 16 years) and the fact that he was a professed member of the Carmelite Third Order and easily the most renowned preacher in the world of his time, I felt Archbishop Sheen was the one to invite to preach, if he had the availability. He had already preached on two special occasions in our Carmelite Church at Whitefriar Street, Dublin (1969 and 1971), and we were thrilled when he accepted our request to preach on St. Thérèse.
For me, the novena he preached was unforgettable. My only regret is that the 11 beautiful sermons he gave were never put into book form until now. For their publication I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR, vice-postulator of Archbishop Sheen’s cause for canonization. It was totally his idea that these splendid talks be published, and he has done all the work to bring this brilliant jewel to light.
These beautiful talks are vintage Sheen. His approach to St. Thérèse is absolutely unique. It is abundantly clear that he is a master of her spirituality, and that his own spiritual life drew much inspiration from her. Principally using her autobiography Story of a Soul (written under the patronage of Our Blessed Lady, for whom both St. Thérèse and the archbishop had a most tender love), he takes us through her beautiful life and that spiritual classic in a masterful way.
He gives us precious insights into her virtues, her faith, hope, charity, fortitude, and humility, her heroic perseverance in prayer, her science of divine love, her heroic resistance to the temptations to suicide, not to mention her total grasp of God’s teaching and its application to our everyday lives. He was fascinated by her love for and knowledge of sacred Scripture (attributes that could similarly be ascribed to him).
He even gives us a count of St. Thérèse’s quotations (107 from the Old Testament and 250 from the New Testament). Archbishop Sheen adds, “Think of that! One hundred and seven from the Old. And she did not study Scripture as the scholar does. For example, she picked up the Prophet Isaiah and she read, she said, about 50 chapters before there came to her an inspiration that she applied to her own life.”
I find in taking up this book that it makes for compelling reading—a reluctance to put it down. Not only does it reveal the essential Thérèse, it also reveals the essential Fulton Sheen. This is a book that will be a rich resource for anyone’s spiritual reading or meditation and, extraordinarily, it is as relevant to today’s spiritual life as it was when first delivered 33 years ago. It is no wonder St. Thérèse is called “one of the ageless saints of God.” Needless to add, it is written with all the famous Sheen wit and charm.
St. Thérèse has been greatly misunderstood by many who have attempted to interpret her. One of the greatest communicators of the twentieth century, the Servant of God Archbishop Sheen has not made that mistake but has left us a wonderfully readable book that directs and authentically leads us in the footsteps of St. Thérèse. He has dealt very lucidly with her great power of intercession.
May the Little Flower take special care of Fulton Sheen’s cause for canonization.
To Fr. Andrew Apostoli, his staff, and to all who read these majestic sermons, may St. Thérèse send her choicest roses.
Fr. J. Linus Ryan, O. Carm.
St. Thérèse National Office,
Carmelite Community,
Terenure College,
Dublin 6W, Ireland
October 1, 2006,
Feast of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face

Notes
A. Quam laeto animi, declaration, Sacred Congregation of Rites, December 14, 1927, Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 20, pgs. 147-8.
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1 According to the online Catholic Encyclopedia , “This society is an international association for the assistance by prayers and alms of Catholic missionary priests, brothers, and nuns engaged in preaching the Gospel in … non-Catholic countries.” Sheen was director of its American branch. Between 1950 and 1966, he raised $200 million for foreign missions. In today’s dollars, that would roughly equate to $1.172 billion.
Foreword
When the possibility arose of transcribing the novena talks that Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen preached on the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, I thought about a story involving two saints.
The two saints were the Dominican St. Thomas Aquinas and the Franciscan St. Bonaventure of Bagnaregio. They were contemporaries, good friends, and both became Doctors of the Church.
Now the story tells us how St. Bonaventure went to the famous hermitage called Mount Alvernia in central Italy, the same mountain where St. Francis of Assisi received the stigmata (i.e., the five wounds of Christ crucified) in his hands, feet, and side. It was a very holy place of prayer. St. Bonaventure had gone there to write a biography of St. Francis, the founder of his Order.
The story goes on to tell us that St. Thomas Aquinas came by Mount Alvernia one day with some of his Dominican companions, and he wanted to visit with St. Bonaventure. When a Franciscan friar went to notify St. Bonaventure about his visitors, the friar found the saint in a prayerful state of ecstasy. When told of this, St. Thomas is said to have remarked to his companions, “Let us leave one saint to write about another!”
In our present case, we have one canonized person (St. Thérèse of Lisieux) and another, God willing, on the road to canonization (the Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen). If, as an old expression puts it, “It takes one to know one,” then this treatment of the life of St. Thérèse will be exceptionally blessed.
Archbishop Sheen, with his own profound wisdom, insight, and personal holiness, uniquely explores the depths of holiness of this “saint of the Little Way.” He reveals the secrets of this “greatest saint of modern times,” as Pope St. Pius X called