Suffering as Inestimable Treasure

The Spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux

The List 36: The Director of Directors.

Age Sources and Pages Code Number Quotations Relevant Key Words, Phrases and Their Code Numbers
10~
11
SS
74
-75.
36-10-1   …I understand now that I was making mental prayer without knowing it and that God was already instructing me in secret. 5-10-2
(Prayer,
Meditation,
Contemplation)
14 SS
74
-75.
36-14-1  …The way I was walking was so straight, so clear, I needed no other guide but Jesus. I compared directors to faithful mirrors, reflecting Jesus in souls, and I said that for me God was using no intermediary, He was acting directly!  
15 GCI
402
-403,
Mar.
18
-19,
LC
76:
from
Sr.
Agnes
of
Jesus.
36-15-1  …I see that Jesus is teaching you Himself. Is it not said in the Imitation: “It is I who give understanding to little children, and he whom I instruct Myself makes rapid progress in virtue….”(III, 43:2) 39-15-4
(Pauline)
16? SS
151.
36-16-1  …Thus I came to know him only to be deprived of him. Reduced to receiving one letter a year from him to my twelve, my heart quickly turned to the Director of directors, and it was He who taught me that science hidden from the wise and prudent and revealed to little ones.(Matthew 11:25.) 10-16-1
(Littleness),
44-16-1
(Reveals
to the
Little
Ones),
48-16-1
(The Wise
and
Prudent)

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