what are the five characterisctics of st. therese?

Answer 1

love, joy, peace, long-suffering kindness and charity

Answer 2

St. Therese is called "The Little Flower of Jesus"
She was a Carmelite nun whose claim to sainthood was simply how deeply she loved Christ. She is the saint of the Little Way. and she struggled to enter the convent at a very young age. When she died she said she wanted to spend her heaven showering the earth with flowers. Meaning grace and prayers. She is a beautiful saint whose body lies in corrupt over the years.
She is an example to all of us that we can all achieve sainthood.

Answer 3

St. Therese of the Child Jesus, like a little child, spoke to God, listened to God, simply enjoyed being in the Presence of God and with love, gazed at God.

in her great trial...She continued heroically to pray and faithfully live the Carmelite life during this trial which was to last until her last agony. She made acts of faith, prayed, showed great charity to others, great patience in her illness and even continued to find ways to practice mortification.

She's one of the greatest saints I know and I would love to thank always.

Answer 4

1. St Theresa is a dead person.
2. She is not a saint at all according to scripture as the Bible tells us that saints are believers who are alive.
3. Being made a saint after your death means nothing to a dead person.
4. Scripture tells us NOT to worship other gods or pray to them, so best leave this one alone if you want to obey God.
5. Why didn't you ask about Jesus, he is alive and living, why do you bother with the dead. What fascination do Rcs have with dead people that they must worship them?

Answer 5

Is it st.Thearsa from Calcutta, India., If it is same:
1. Holy
2. Honest
3. Helping Nature
4. Sacrifice.
5. Simplicity.

Answer 6

There were no great penances in the life of the "Little Flower." Nevertheless, she had a great spirit of self-denial. The average Catholic usually associates holiness with the practice of every kind of frightening mortification. The saint, to them, is a person who rarely sleeps or eats -- a person who never gives one's poor body a decent break -- one who does the very best to take all the joy out of life. Anyone who fails to measure up to this standard is considered hardly fit for the honors of the altar.

1) Saint Thérèse had a great attraction for penance. Still, she courageously avoided what she called "the macerations of the saints." She not only was opposed to them, she even suspected them, believing that there is a strong element of self-will and self-choice in them.

2) The second characteristic we discover in the life of Saint Thérèse is the lack of the remarkable gifts so abundant in the lives of so many of God's saints. Search as we will through the "Autobiography," there is little evidence of mystical graces such as visions, revelations, stigmata, appearances of the saints, the power of prophecy, miracle-working, or even of the devil.
Her life is the living expression of the words of St. Paul: "Faith that finds its expression in love is all that matters." (Gal 5:6) Thérèse realized the dangers of these free gifts of God -- how they could encourage vanity and pride in souls. So she wrote, "to all ecstasies I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice." Only the spiritually immature seek holiness in the novel and the extraordinary

3)The third outstanding characteristic of Thérèse is the lack of a method of prayer. This will surely come as a note of encouragement to those who have great difficulty in fitting their thoughts and aspirations into a methodical groove.

What a contrast are her few simple yet fundamental ideas on prayer as compared with the writing of St. Theresa (of Avila) in her treatise called "The Seven Mansions."

She knew the treatises of St. John of the Cross, her only spiritual reading diet for two solid years. And she had read and re-read all the writings of her spiritual mother, Teresa of Avila. Yet, the confident, child-like surges of her soul toward her heavenly Father could not be confined within the framework of methodical prayer
Prayer is essentially the loving conversation of a faithful child with one's heavenly Father. Thérèse's concept of prayer is best summed up in her own words: "I act like a child who cannot read. I just say what I want to say to God, quietly, simply, and He never fails to understand."

4) The fourth characteristic of the way of spiritual childhood is the absence of remarkable actions. Again, Thérèse stands out in stark contrast with so many of God's saints, mighty in word and deed.

There was no achievement in the realm of knowledge as with St. Augustine and St. Thomas. No marvelous preaching embellished by miracles as with St. Vincent Ferrer. No pagan multitudes drawn to the knowledge and love of Christ as through the missionary work of Francis Xavier. No delightful array of miracles as with St. Anthony the Wonderworker.

Then, what did she do that was so saintly? There is surely nothing very spectacular in her duties mentioned in her "Story of a Soul." She was successively the laundress, refectorian, sacristan, portress, and finally a sub-mistress of novices."Do not imagine," Thérèse told her novices repeatedly, "that to become perfect it is necessary to do great things . . . Our Lord needs neither remarkable deeds or beautiful thoughts . . . So it is neither intellect nor talent that He seeks here below . . . He loves simplicity . . . Even the greatest works are of no value without love."

That last word strikes the keynote of her great holiness: -- love alone constitutes our perfection -- love alone is within the reach of everyone! As St. Thérèse put it: "To love, to be loved, and to return to earth to make Love loved."
5) To think as a child . . . She realized with the intuition of her penetrating faith that in the heart of our heavenly Father there is only mercy and love. She took the words of the Lord at face value, and deliberately sought out in Scripture those texts emphasizing the mercy and merciful love of God. When she made her oblation of love, it was not to the justice of God, but as victim of the merciful Love.

To act as a child . . . Then she practiced the characteristic virtues of a child. As Pope Pius XI wrote concerning spiritual childhood: "It consists in thinking and acting under the influence of grace as a child thinks and acts."

Answer 7

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