{"id":4246,"date":"2012-10-01T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/therese-sent-us-roses\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:28:43","slug":"therese-sent-us-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/therese-sent-us-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Thérèse Sent Us Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The\u0301re\u0300se<\/a>
\nSurprise<\/strong>
\nWe completed our novena to Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face today. All during the novena I was expecting to receive roses, a sign of Saint Thérèse’s loving attention to one’s prayer. No roses came . . . until this morning: not cut roses, but two rose bushes, complete with thorns, to be planted here in our monastery garden. I find this extraordinary. The Little Flower sent us, not cut roses destined to wilt and die, but two roses bushes destined to take root, and grow, and blossom again and again. Is this not a wonderful affirmation of our calling to take root here, to put forth shoots, and to blossom? Once again, Saint Thérèse has surprised and delighted me.
\nO glorious Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus<\/strong>
\nand of the Holy Face,
\ncherished child of the Father,
\nvirgin espoused to the Son,
\nhumble Doctor instructed by the Holy Ghost,
\nWe greet thee with joy
\nand approach thee with confidence.
\nThe wonders wrought by thy intercession
\nare too many to be counted;
\nthou showest thyself the friend and advocate
\nof all who have recourse to thee in time of need.
\nWe rely on thy childlike power over the Father’s Heart.
\nFrom the thy place in heaven
\nthou seest our afflictions
\nand, by a merciful disposition of Providence,
\nthou sendest roses of pity to those who seek thy help.
\nThere is no mIsery of body or of soul
\nto which thou dost not respond with love.
\nThou who didst seek to be love in the heart of the Church,
\nwhile still on earth,
\nart forever love in the heart of the Church
\nfrom the place that is thine in Heaven.
\nDescend to us, Saint Thérèse.
\nHasten to us who are waiting for a rose from heaven,
\na sign of thy compassion, a pledge of thy assistance.
\nWho hath not heard of thy errands of love
\nin every place and on every continent?
\nWalk with us, Saint Thérèse,
\nlest we wander from thy little way.
\nChange, we pray thee, our timid and faltering confidence,
\ninto a confidence that is limitless and bold,
\nthat by offering ourselves, as thou didst offer thyself,
\nto the mystery of Merciful Love,
\nour confidence may be perfected, as was thine,
\nin the contemplation of the holy and adorable Face of Jesus:
\nthine own heart’s treasure in this valley of tears,
\nand thine all-surpassing joy
\nin the brightness of the heavenly fatherland.
\nAmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surprise We completed our novena to Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face today. All during the novena I was expecting to receive roses, a sign of Saint Thérèse’s loving attention to one’s prayer. No roses came . . . until this morning: not cut roses, but two rose bushes, complete <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saint-therese-of-the-child-jesus-and-of-the-holy-face"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-16u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}