Complete Spiritual Doctrine of St. Therese of Lisieux

by Francois Jamart

The "Little Way" of St. Therese of Lisieux explained.

Genres: Catholic, Religion, Spirituality

318 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 1977

Reviews

[booklady]

I finished this last night, and it is truly an invaluable aid to a deep understanding of St. Thérèse. I need some time to go back over it for a worthy review.

So far, this book is absolutely phenomenal. Jamart has made himself thoroughly familiar with all of Thérèse's writings and has organized them thematically as follows:
• Spiritual Childhood: the Way of Holiness
• Evangelical Perfection
• How her primitive spiritual became more complex
• Thérèse’s and its History
• Has Thérèse’s Doctrine any authoritative Value? -Popes and God Himself
• More on the importance of Spiritual Childhood, what it is, its source, how did Thérèse discover it and the way of Spiritual Childhood and the Fatherhood of God
• Humility and littleness
• Spiritual Poverty
• Love of God
• Thérèse’s exclusive love; disinterested love; generous love; her tender and generous love
• Love of our neighbor and Thérèse’s perfect charity, zeal for souls
• Spirit of Renunciation and Sacrifice and what it is
• Thérèse’s renunciation during childhood and in Carmel
• Peace—the reward of spiritual combat
• Keep smiling!
• Love—the source of generosity and serenity
• Abandonment

That’s as far as I’ve gotten, but I am so grateful for the way the author has pulled all her ideas together and distilled them into coherent lessons for the reader. There are so many quotes, I want to quote the entire book. My only complaint so far, is I don’t understand his abbreviations for the books or sources. Still looking for an index or something to explain this.

Still need to finish this review...

[Tara Lauderdale]

One of the best books out there on Therese's doctrine!