A Few Years on a Modest Wall

She lived in an era when Face Book was not even a distant possibility. Yet what she wrote on the modest wall of her life has become more than a community page on the FB. Loving God was her greatest charism. "To put the Lord's mercies on record" was a happy mission for her. She never had the time to read  the romantic  fiction of her days,but she read stories about the deeds of the great French heroines—especially of St. Joan of Arc,. Even before she was fourteen, she knew each chapter of the 'Imitation of Christ' by heart!
For a long time she had nourished her spiritual life with the “fine flour” contained in the Imitation of Christ for she had not yet found the treasures hidden in the Holy Gospels.
She writes,

"Seeing my great thirst for knowledge, God was pleased, when I was fourteen, to add to the “fine flour,” “honey” and “oil” in abundance.This “honey” and “oil” I found in the conferences of Father Arminjon on The End of this World and the Mysteries of the World to Come. While reading this book my soul was flooded with a happiness quite supernatural. I experienced a foretaste of what God has prepared for those who love Him;" This book inspired her so much that it  plunged into her heart "all the great truths of religion" and a "happiness not of this earth"!

Then when she was seventeen or eighteen, her favourite author was St. John of the Cross. It was all the spiritual food she needed at that time. She quotes with ease from the "Canticle of the Soul". After that she found all spiritual books as dry because by then she had found the Hidden Manna in the Scriptures. "There you have whole meal nourishment" says she.
Looking up at the moon from the room with a view upstairs, she writes, " those silvery rays the moon cast on a sleeping world, the stars, the fleecy clouds floating by in the evening - how everything conspired to turn our thoughts towards Heaven."
  That young girl called herself the " the little flower of our Lady". " The Blessed Virgin too kept good watch over the little flower that was dedicated to her. She did not want to see it tarnished with stains of the earth, so she took care to plant it high up, in her own mountain air, before it opened".
What a darling Saint we have in Therese , whose feast we  celebrate on October 1.She also had a special devotion to Holy Angels, especially the Angel sent by God to guard her (the young girls of these days with pixies and vampires as pals, please note this, and BEWARE !). October 2 is  the feast day of Guardian Angels.
Maranatha..., Come Lord Jesus.