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Therese of lisieux story of a soul5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() But the comparisons do not stop there, and she draws on the story of Matthew 8:23-27, where Jesus is asleep in a boat during a storm. She describes it as a ‘three day martyrdom’ where she was lost in a ‘desert’ apt language for a period of spiritual dryness, although in the times of the Desert Fathers, the desert was seen as a place to retreat from the world and to meet God. The first time we encounter darkness in Story of a Soul is when Thérèse is unable to attain approval to enter Carmel from her uncle. Her way was to be the way of ‘spiritual stumbling and groping’ as Nevin puts it, and it seems as though she was set apart within the darkness. ![]() The way of imperfection is also in the spiritual aridity which Thérèse was to experience after entering Carmel, particularly in her final months. ![]() A true doctor of grace, she illuminates the little way to sainthood: childlike simplicity before God the Father and a willingness to do small things with great love. Thrse of Lisieux walks readers through her devout family life, her ever-deepening personal conversion, and her years of trial and suffering. John (both as a Carmelite, and as someone who found great wisdom in his writing) Thérèse would also explore this language of darkness. In her autobiographical 'Story of a Soul,' St. ![]() It is unsurprising that as a disciple of St. ‘The dark night of the soul’ is a term that is frequently associated with mysticism since St. ![]()
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