RCF – A fire of love to lift the world! Saint Therese 4/5
RCF, July 2, 2020
For Saint Thérèse, prayer is an impulse of the heart, a very simple relationship with the good God. And she wants to share this joy with everyone!
A scholar said, "Give me a lever, a fulcrum, and I'll lift the world." What Archimedes could not obtain, because his request was not addressed to God and was only made from the material point of view, the Saints obtained in all its plenitude. The Almighty gave them as a point of support: himself and him alone; for lever: prayer, which kindles with a fire of love, and it is thus that they lifted up the world; it is thus that the still militant Saints raise it and that, until the end of the world, the Saints to come will also raise it.
(Manuscript C – 36 r°)
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart, it's a simple gaze cast towards Heaven, it's a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as in joy; in short, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.
(Manuscript C – 25 rv°)
I am convinced of the uselessness of remedies to cure me; but I made arrangements with the good Lord, so that he would benefit poor sick missionaries, who have neither the time nor the means to take care of themselves. I ask him to cure them in place of me with the medicines and the rest that I am forced to take.
(Last Interviews, Yellow Notebook, from May 21 to 26, 5°)
