Saint Therese Is Stalking Me!

[truthfinder]

Therese has stalked me, but so has Our Lady of Mt. Carmel...

[LittleWaySoul]

Little Therese is so beautiful She does a lot of stalking. She's one of those saints who, I think, works overtime

[LittleWaySoul]

On October 1, Imagine Sisters did something called the One Rose Campaign. That was where you give a single rose to someone you know to ask them to consider religious life in honor of St. Therese. One of my friends on Facebook posted this picture. It was a note and a rose necklace she got in the mail. There was no return address label and no handwriting for her to find out who sent it. I used Paint to cross off her name and address so that her privacy is protected, but at the bottom of the piece of paper with the quote, there was a URL for the video on Imagine Sisters that explained what One Rose is.

This is the kind of stuff St. Therese does. Isn't she beautiful?

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[Pax_et bonum]

There has been a vase of white roses in the side chapel where the tabernacle is, and there's never usually any flowers there. My first thought was, "OK, who prayed a novena to Therese," but today my theo professor told me that he was looking around at a daily Mass, saw me, and thought I looked like St. Therese--my prayer posture or something.

[NonNovi]

I'm so bad at praying novenas! Still haven't accomplished to finish one for Saint Therese, this morning I started again. But I keep seeing red roses and her portraits everywhere, especially in places that have something to do with the priesthood or with persons who wanted to be priests.

 

Friday evening we had a meeting with a group of catholic young people in the house of a priest who died a few years ago (read the Youcat, had adoration, was nice). In the living room are some bookcases, my eye fell almost immediately on a little one : "Novena to Saint Therese". That's why I decided to try once more :proud:

Later that evening, the housekeeper showed me some sort of prayer card drawn by Saint Therese herself!! (3th class relic!) :shocking: I held a piece of paper in my hands (okay, it was in a plastic cover to protect it, but still) with drawings she made! There were 7 swords on it and below that a sacred heart, with hand written text around the drawings (can't remember what it said, it was in French).It was given to the priest when he was in Lisieux. Next time I'll ask if I can take a picture of it or something.

 

She just won't let me go :nun1: :flowers:

Edited December 2, 2012 by NonNovi

[NonNovi]

(3th class relic!) :shocking:

Mistake, it is 2nd class!

[petitpèlerin]

Yeah. Advice: watch out for what you ask for, she just might get it for you! She said she would spend her heaven doing good on the earth. She's one busy saint up there. Here's my one Therese experience: I came to France last fall and met a French brother I liked so much I couldn't stand not to get to know him. Every circumstance was against me, but I took it to Therese. (I'm in her country, she's a patron of his community, and he loves her, so I thought she'd be a good choice.) A few weeks later I got a clear and beautiful sign that there was the beginning of a friendship between him and me . . . on her feast day! I'm not sure if there were any roses involved, but it happened in a flower garden! And things have progressed since then. I don't know how it's happened - he's the most graceful and gracious man in western Europe and I'm the most clumsy American - but I've somehow developed a profound friendship with him. I don't know, maybe he just tolerates me in charity, as Therese did with that sister who rubbed her every wrong way, but if that's the case then he's a saint himself already, because he treats me like a friend, like someone important. He's been so tremendously good to me in ways I couldn't have even imagined, in the most simple human ways as well as some profound spiritual ones. My time in France and my story are not over yet, but I know that my French brother has some significant role in it. Like you, I'm still watching it unfold. And I owe a big thanks to Therese.

Scoffers can scoff. Spiritual friendship, with the saints in heaven as well as those among us, is one of the best things on earth. It sounds like Therese is the one pursuing you, in which case you really better watch out, because she's probably up to something!

[NonNovi]

I finally managed to finish a novena yesterday! :winner:  :saint2:  I guess she made me realise what I have to do in the past 9 days. The first day of the novena I started to think about what my friend said to me, the last day I posted my It's going too fast thread here.

 

PetitPelerin, you're right, she does get you what you ask for! She confirms everything I ask. I'm getting used to her presence now, Therese is really pushing me in one direction. When I was at the SJM-monastery last weekend, there was a funeral of one of the sisters living there. On the coffin was put a red rose. The remaining sisters like me a lot and want me to stay every time I'm there. When I left Saturday, the priest told me he has a 1st class relic of Saint Therese (ex carne)!! He will show it to me next time I'm there. See, she even is present literally in the one place I really want to be right now.

[petitpèlerin]

Oh my gosh, I didn't realize it was you, the same guy who's been stalked by St Therese, who's also experiencing things going so fast! Not to make light of your present situation, I believe important things are happening in your life right now, but that's downright comical! And so like Therese! It sounds like she's really got an eye out for you. Wow.

 

I think I had a major breakthrough this weekend and some things that my friend has shared with me figured deeply into it. I realize now that he's in my life to help me recognize and encourage me along my way. Sometimes providence comes in the form of coincidences, but when it comes in the form of really excellent people who share God's grace and light with you, life just doesn't get any better. We'll see how it all goes, I'm in the middle of some big shifts just like you are. Your story is quite inspiring.

[Lil'Nun]

Oh how I wish she would stalk me...

 

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

Oh how I wish she would stalk me...

 

 

As I understand it, the novena to St. Therese doesn't need to be said for St. Therese's feast day, but can be said anytime. Go for it!

 

Also, St. Therese isn't the only saint who "stalks" people--or does miracles for them. (Not that I'm saying anything you don't know already.) Personally, I have several saints I pray to regularly and a few more that I pray to when I think of it. Whenever something especially good happens to me, I think to myself "Now which saint was responsible for that?"

 

Roses are wonderful--no matter who they come from!

[NonNovi]

I recently bought "History of a soul". It was very hard to find in Dutch, because this must be the only translation where they didn't translate the title literally. In Dutch it's titled "I believed in Gods love". I'm really enjoying reading it.

 

Just saw this on the Facebook page of the DSMME :hehe2:

 

[Lil'Nun]

As I understand it, the novena to St. Therese doesn't need to be said for St. Therese's feast day, but can be said anytime. Go for it!

 

Also, St. Therese isn't the only saint who "stalks" people--or does miracles for them. (Not that I'm saying anything you don't know already.) Personally, I have several saints I pray to regularly and a few more that I pray to when I think of it. Whenever something especially good happens to me, I think to myself "Now which saint was responsible for that?"

 

Roses are wonderful--no matter who they come from!

 

Thank you. Since seeing this thread I have been saying her Novena. No roses. I should not complain though I am often thoroughly stalked by two lovely Saints. Saint Martin de Porres and Saint Jude.

I guess I am just being greedy.  :paperbag:

[Eowyn]

As I understand it, the novena to St. Therese doesn't need to be said for St. Therese's feast day, but can be said anytime. Go for it!

 

Also, St. Therese isn't the only saint who "stalks" people--or does miracles for them. (Not that I'm saying anything you don't know already.) Personally, I have several saints I pray to regularly and a few more that I pray to when I think of it. Whenever something especially good happens to me, I think to myself "Now which saint was responsible for that?"

 

Roses are wonderful--no matter who they come from!

 

St Francis and St Clare can be very persistant, as well.  :hehe2:  :hehe2:

[Lil'Nun]

Thank you. Since seeing this thread I have been saying her Novena. No roses. I should not complain though I am often thoroughly stalked by two lovely Saints. Saint Martin de Porres and Saint Jude.

I guess I am just being greedy.  :paperbag:

 

Ummm..

You know I said, a couple of hours ago, no roses?

Does a very spectacular picture of one turning up on your facebook account count?

 

This arrived twenty minutes ago.

 

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Oh, and I just realised, someone bought me a lovely china teacup and saucer for Christmas - with er... roses... on it.

Maybe I am just a bit dense?

Edited December 26, 2012 by Lil'Nun

[Eowyn]

Lil Nun, that sounds about the way St Therese works. 

Edited December 26, 2012 by Eowyn

[NonNovi]

Does a very spectacular picture of one turning up on your facebook account count?

Yes, that counts! Even saints use the internet nowadays :hehe2:

 

If you're praying a novena and you're desperately looking for roses, you won't find any. But she trows them at you when you don't expect it. And then you're shocked for a few seconds, immediately realising that you got a rose after all.

[NonNovi]

I was praying in my cathedral today (didn't plan to do that, but I was in the neighbourhood anyway) and saw this. This looks like an invitation to the altar, doesn't it?

 

Edited January 7, 2013 by NonNovi

[AnneLine]

^^^^^ ROTFL!!!!!   If you were a lady, NonNovi, I'd say that and this week's AnneLine Avatar were God trying to tell you something.  Of course... St. John of the Cross and many other mystics would tell you that the soul is ALWAYS feminine...

 

 

 

From Evening Prayer for today:

 

Listen, O Daughter, give ear to my words:
forget your own people and your father’s house.
So will the king desire your beauty:
he is your lord, pay homage to him.

 

And the people of Tyre shall come with gifts,
the richest of the people shall seek your favor.
The daughter of the king is clothed with splendor,
her robes embroidered with pearls set in gold.

 

She is led to the king with her maiden companions.
They are escorted amid gladness and joy;
they pass within the palace of the king.

 

Sons shall be yours in place of your fathers:
you will make them princes over all the earth.
May this song make your name for ever remembered.
May the peoples praise you from age to age.

 

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
– as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

 

 

.......................................... :congrats:

[NonNovi]

^^^^^ rotfl!!!!!   If you were a lady, NonNovi, I'd say that and this week's AnneLine Avatar were God trying to tell you something.  Of course... St. John of the Cross and many other mystics would tell you that the soul is ALWAYS feminine...

I was more thinking of celebrating ad orientem, but okay :) (there were roses aside of the bishop's chair also by the way ;))