Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that since the Church is a body composed of different members, she could not lack the most necessary and most nobly endowed of all the bodily organs. I understood, therefore, that the Church has a heart-and a heart on fire with love. I saw, too, that love alone imparts life to all the members, so that should love ever fail, apostles would no longer preach the Gospel and martyrs would refuse to shed their blood. Finally, I realized that love includes every vocation, that love is all things, that love is eternal, reaching down through the ages and stretching to the uttermost limits of earth.
Beside myself with joy, I cried out: "O Jesus, my Love, my vocation is found at last-my vocation is love!,,,in the heart of the Church; my Mother, I will be love!"
PRAYER TO ST. THERESE
O Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, who during your short life on earth became a mirror of angelic purity, of love strong as death, and of whole-hearted abandonment God, now that you rejoice in the reward of your virtues cast a glance of pit on me as I leave all things in your hands. Make my troubles your own-speak a word for me to Our Lady Immaculate, whose flower of special love you were--to that Queen of Heaven 'who smiled on you at the dawn of life.' Beg her as the Queen of the Heart of Jesus to obtain for me by her powerful intercession the grace I yearn for so ardently at this moment, and that she join with it a blessing that may strengthen me during life, defend me at the hour of death, and lead me straight on to a happy eternity. Amen.
Peace be with you!
Rosemarie
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