Simply Surrender: 30 Days with Thérèse of Lisieux
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Meet Thérèse of Lisieux one of the modern world's best-loved saints and spiritual guides. Each day you will discover the profound truths in the "Little Way" and the insights about prayer and holiness that this great saint shared in her autobiography, The Story of a Soul.
Each book in the Great Spiritual Teachers series provides a month of daily readings from one of Christianity's most beloved spiritual guides. For each day there is a brief and accessible morning meditation drawn from the mystic's writings, a simple mantra for use throughout the day, and a night prayer to focus one's thoughts as the day ends. These easy-to-use books are the perfect prayer companion for busy people who want to root their spiritual practice in the solid ground of these great spiritual teachers.
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Simply Surrender - Therese of Lisieux
Timeline
1858
Marie-Azélie Guérin (Zélie) and Louis Martin meet and are married in Alençon, France.
1871
War between France and Prussia ends with the Treaty of Frankfurt. France cedes Alsace and Lorraine to Germany. In the aftermath of the war, which led to the collapse of the Second Republic, the Paris Commune, a revolutionary socialist movement, takes temporary control of the capital from March 18 to May 28. The French Third Republic executes 30,000 supporters of the Commune and innocent Parisians, ending the Paris Commune and taking power in France.
1873
Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin is born in Alençon, France, on January 2. She is the ninth and last child born to Zélie and Louis Martin (only five survived). Thérèse is quite frail and unhealthy and is sent to live under the care of a wet nurse, Rose Taillé.
1874
Thérèse returns home, significantly healthier.
1877
Thérèse’s mother, Zélie, dies from a breast tumor on August 28; thereafter Thérèse’s older sister Pauline acts as a second mother to her siblings.
1877
In the wake of Zélie’s death, the Martin family moves to Lisiuex, France.
1878
Pope Pius IX dies; Pope Leo XIII is elected.
1886
On December 24, Thérèse has what she calls a complete conversion experience. She had suffered from intense scruples for years prior, unable to move beyond painful attention to her own inadequacies and sins; on Christmas Eve, she finds spiritual calm in the image of the Child Jesus and the revelation that Christ looks upon her as a child of God.
1887
Henri Pranzini is convicted of double homicide. The murders and trial grip all of France, and Thérèse reads about his trial and sentencing and prays for his conversion. Pranzini kisses a crucifix just before being executed.
1887
Thérèse is determined to enter the convent but is told she is too young. Before allowing Thérèse to commit to the convent, her father takes her on a trip to Rome.
1887
Thérèse has an audience with Pope Leo III on November 20. She asks permission to join the convent immediately, even though she is only fifteen. The pope tells her to do as her superiors decide and trust in God’s will. The Swiss Guard has to carry her from the room because she won’t leave the pope’s feet.
1888
After continued persistence, Thérèse is admitted to the Carmelite convent at Lisieux as a postulant on April 9.
1889
Thérèse completes her time as a postulate and takes the habit of her order as a novice on January 10. She takes on the name Thérèse of the Child Jesus
as a way to honor her 1886 conversion experience.
1890
On September 8, Thérèse takes her final vows as a Carmelite sister. She is encouraged to take on another epithet, becoming known as Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face.
1888–1897
Under instruction from her superiors, Thérèse writes an autobiographical account of her life reflecting on her daily life. She develops what she called her little way,
a spiritual mode that attempts to find great value in ordinary life and embodies the belief that everyone can be a little saint.
1893
Thérèse’s sister Pauline is elected prioress of the Carmelite convent at Lisieux on February 20. She becomes Mother Agnes
and appoints Thérèse as her assistant.
1894
Thérèse’s father, Louis, dies.
1894
Thérèse’s sister Celine enters the convent and is permitted to use a camera, which she uses, in part, to document Thérèse’s life. The pictures Celine takes later help ground and motivate devotion to Thérèse.
1897
At the age of twenty-four, Thérèse dies of tuberculosis and other medical complications on September 30.
1898
Thérèse’s autobiography The Story of a Soul is first published on September 30. It becomes popular almost immediately, attracting wide readership due to its embrace of the ordinary. Previously unknown outside the convent, Thérèse becomes incredibly famous. She becomes known as the Little Flower
because of her observation that a flower’s beauty comes from simply being itself.
1903
Pope Leo XIII dies; Pope Pius X is elected.
1914
Pope Pius X opens the process for Thérèse’s