Patroness of this Blog

I credit my conversion to the Catholic faith, my miraculous ordination to the Catholic priesthood and my preservation in the faith to St Therese of Lisieux.



I am re-reading the best book on Therese--The Hidden Face by Ida Gorres, and I am remembering my own meeting with Therese in 1987 on my pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The story is told here. Time and again her presence has been known in my life. At my ordination two friends gave me beautiful images of Therese and another friend gave me a first class relic.



Do people wonder about spirituality and religion? The two are not separate. They come together in the lives of the saints. Benedict XVI says that Sacred Scripture can only be interpreted through the lives of the saints. The same is true of the whole riddle of religion. It is in the lives of the saints that we see spirituality and religion incarnated in one inexplicable experience.



Read the lives of the saints. Meet the saints. Live with the saints. Pray with the saints. You will soon come to see that you cannot have spirituality without religion and you cannot have religion without spirituality. If you would have one you must have the other, and as you have both you will understand the saints. You will understand the Scriptures. You will understand the Church.



You will understand your destiny.



I have gone off track. I only meant to say that from this day St Therese is the patroness of this blog. Officially.



And I am going to expect some miracles little sister!