Energy to live great love...

 For Christ's love compels us...  II Cor 5:14

"The Eucharist is support, light and 

consolation in trial and suffering.  

Find in this sacrament the spiritual energy 

to live the great love of Christ 

of which He gave us proof 

when giving us His Body and Blood.” 

Pope Benedict XVI

6/14/2006
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Reflection honoring... 

Sts Louis and Zelie Martin 

Parents of St Therese of Lisieux

Patrons:  Marriages, parents, widowers, illness

Beatified:  Pope Benedict XVI (2008)

Canonized: Pope Francis (2015)

Feast day:  July 12

"Soon we'll have the intimate happiness of the family

and its beauty to bring us closer to Him." 

St Louis Martin

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"I want to become a saint; it will not be easy at all. 

I have a lot of wood to chop, and it is hard as stone. 

I should have started sooner, while it was not so 

difficult; but, in any case; 'better late than never." 

 St Zelie Martin

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St Therese wrote about her parents

 to Father Belliere on July 26, 1897:  

"The good Lord has given me a father and a mother 

more worthy of Heaven than (of) earth."

(LT 261)

 Sts Louis and Zelie Martin, pray for us!