| Age | Sources and Pages | Code Number | Quotations | Relevant Key Words, Phrases and Their Code Numbers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | GCI 180, Jan. 1884, (?), LC 19: from Sr. Agnes of Jesus. |
50-11-1 |
…Oh! how happy the Child Jesus must be when His little Therese places on
His crib the perfumed harvest of her efforts and her little acts of love!…
How beautiful must His smile be! And how His little arms must press
the dear
bouquet of virtues and the little flower girl also gently to His Heart. You see, dear Therese, there are so many bad people who make the Child Jesus' tears flow immediately… there are so many, so many! That you must console Him a little and dry our Jesus' little tears as much as possible! |
2-11-3 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials), 7-11-2 (Renunciation, Forget Self), 14-11-4 (The Little Way), 39-11-2 (Pauline) |
| 16 | GCI 500, Jan. 6, 1889, LT74: to Sr. Agnes of Jesus. |
50-16-1 |
If you only knew how much I want to be indifferent to
the things of this earth. What do all created beauties mean
to me, I would be unhappy possessing them, my heart would
be so empty!… It is incredible how big my heart appears to
me when I consider all earth's treasures. But when I consider
Jesus, how little it appears to me!!
I would so much like
to love Him!… Love Him more than He has ever been loved!…
My only desire is to do the will of Jesus always! To dry away
the little tears that sinners make Him shed…. Oh! I do not
WANT Jesus to have any sorrow. On the day of my espousals,
I would like to convert all the sinners of this earth and
to save all the souls in purgatory!… The Lamb of Jesus is going to laugh when it sees this desire of the little grain of sand!… I know that it's folly, but, nevertheless, I would like it to be this way so that Jesus have not one single tear to shed. |
7-16-4 (Renunciation, Forget Self), 14-16-4 (The Little Way), 16-16-2 (His Will, Perfection, Sanctity), 17-16-1 (Love Jesus, The Love of God, Charity), 22-16-1 (Salvation of Souls), 27-16-1 (Sinners, Sins), 39-16-2 (Pauline) |
| 16 | GCI 546- 547, March 12, 1889, LT 85: to Celine. |
50-16-2 |
Jesus' love for Celine can be understood only by Jesus!… Jesus
had
done foolish things for Celine…. Let Celine do foolish things for
Jesus…. Love is repaid by love alone, and the
wounds of love are
healed only by love. Let us really offer our sufferings to Jesus to save souls, poor souls!… They have less grace than we have, and still all the Blood of a God was shed to save them…. And yet Jesus wills to make their salvation depend on one sigh from our heart….What a mystery! If one sigh can save a soul, what can sufferings like ours not do?… Let us refuse Jesus nothing!… |
2-16-22 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials), 7-16-8 (Renunciation, Forget Self), 14-16-9 (The Little Way), 16-16-9 (His Will, Perfection, Sanctity), 17-16-10 (Love Jesus, The Love of God, Charity), 22-16-3 (Salvation of Souls), 24-16-4 (Mercy of God, Graces), 40-16-1 (Participation to Salvation) |
| 16 | GCI 552 -553, Apr. 4, 1889, LT 87: to Celine |
50-16-3 |
Your letter gave great sadness to my soul! Poor little Papa!…
No, the
thoughts of Jesus are not our thoughts, and His ways are not
our ways…. (Isaias 55:8.) He is offering us a chalice as bitter as our feeble nature can bear!… Let us not withdraw our lips from this chalice prepared by the hand of Jesus…. Let us see life as it really is …. It is a moment between two eternities…. Let us suffer in peace! I admit that this word peace seemed a little strong to me, but the other day, when reflecting on it, I found the secret of suffering in peace…. The one who says peace is not saying joy, or at least, felt joy…. To suffer in peace it is enough to will all that Jesus wills…. To be the spouse of Jesus we must resemble Jesus, and Jesus is all bloody, He is crowned with thorns!… “A thousand years in your eyes, Lord, are as yesterday, which has PASSED”!… (Psalm 90:4.) “On the banks of the river of Babylon, we sat and wept when we remembered Sion…. We hung our harps on the willows in the fields…. Those who led us into captivity said to us: ‘Sing for us one of the pleasant songs from Sion.’ How could we sing the song of the Lord in a foreign land!” …Psalm of David… (Psalm 136:1-4.). No, let us not sing the canticles of heaven to creatures…. But, like Cecilia, let us sing a melodious canticle in our heart to our Beloved!… The canticle of suffering united to His sufferings is what delights His Heart the most!… Jesus is on fire with love for us… look at His adorable Face!… Look at His eyes lifeless and lowered! Look at His wounds…. Look at Jesus in His Face…. There you will see how He loves us. |
1-16-3 (Self-love, Nature), 2-16-24 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials), 7-16-10 (Renunciation, Forget self), 14-16-10 (The Little Way), 16-16-10 (His Will, Perfection, Sanctity), 17-16-9 (Love Jesus, The Love of God, Charity), 28-16-3 (Peace), 37-16-7 (Time), 41-16-3 (Unfelt Love) |
| 16 | GCI 567 -568, May 30, 1889, LT 93: to Marie Guerin. |
50-16-4 |
Should I tell you something that has given me much sorrow?… It is that my little Marie has given up her Communions…on the feast of the Ascension and on the last day of Mary's month!… Oh! what sorrow this has caused Jesus!… The devil has to be very clever to mislead a soul in this way!… But don't you know, my dear, that this is the only goal of his desires? The evil one knows well that he can't make a soul that wants to belong totally to Jesus commit a sin, so he tries to make the soul believe it has. It is already much for him to put disturbance in this soul, but to satisfy his rage something else is needed; He wants to deprive Jesus of a loved tabernacle, and, not being able to enter this sanctuary, he wants, at least, that it remain empty and without any Master!… Alas, what will become of this poor heart?… When the evil has succeeded in drawing the soul away from Holy Communion, he has won everything…. And Jesus weeps!… Oh, my darling, think, then, that Jesus is there in the Tabernacle expressly for you, for you alone; He is burning with the desire to enter your heart…so don't listen to the devil, mock him, and go without any fear to receive Jesus in peace and love!…. …what offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence!… Dear little sister, receive Communion often, very often…. That is the only remedy if you want to be healed, and Jesus hasn't placed this attraction in your soul for nothing. |
4-16-1 (Trust, Confidence, Abandonment), 14-16-11 (The Little Way), 15-16-1 (Union with Jesus), 18-16-1 (Holy Communion), 27-16-2 (Sinners, Sins) |
| 17 | GCI 630- 631, July 18, 1890, LT 109: to Celine. |
50-17-1 |
(Open to me, my sister, my beloved, for my
face is covered with dew, my
locks with the drops of night) (Cant. of Cant. 5:2.). That is what Jesus says
to our soul when He is abandoned and forgotten!…
Celine, forgetfulness,
it seems to me that it's this which causes Him the greatest
sorrow!… Papa!… Ah, Celine, I cannot tell you all I am thinking, it would take too long, and how say things that the mind itself can hardly express, deep things that are in the innermost recesses of the soul…. Jesus has sent us the best chosen Cross that He was able to find in His immense love…how can we complain when He Himself was looked upon as a man struck by God and humbled!… The divine charm delights my soul and consoles it in a marvelous way, at each moment of the day!… Ah, the tears of Jesus, what smiles!… |
2-17-10 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials), 12-17-1 (Humility, Humbleness), 17-17-5 (Love Jesus, The Love of God, Charity), 29-17-5 (Consolation), 37-17-2 (Time) |
| 18 | GCII 724, April 26, 1891, LT 127: to Celine. |
50-18-1 |
For the fourth time Therese is coming from the solitude of Carmel to wish you
a happy birthday…. Oh! how these wishes little resemble those of the world,
…
It is not health, happiness, fortune, glory, etc.,
that Therese desires for her
Celine; oh, no, it is exile; our heart is there where
our treasure is, and our
treasure is up above in the homeland where Jesus prepares a place near Himself.
I say
one place and not places, for no doubt
the same throne is reserved to
those who on earth have always been only one soul…. Together we grew up;
together
Jesus instructed us in His secrets, sublime secrets
that He hides from the mighty
and reveals to the little ones;… Yes, by separating us, He
has united us in a
way unknown up to that time to my soul, for since that moment I can desire nothing
for myself alone but for us both…. Ah, Celine!… Three years ago our souls had not yet been broken; happiness was still possible for us on earth, but Jesus cast a glance of love on us, a glance veiled in tears, and this glance has become for us an ocean of suffering, but also an ocean of graces and love. |
2-18-2 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials), 7-18-1 (Renunciation, Forget Self), 17-18-4 (Love Jesus, The Love of God, Charity), 24-18-1 (Mercy of God, Graces), 44-18-1 (Reveals to Little Ones) |
| 22 | SS 180. |
50-22-1 | …It seems to me that if all creatures had received the same graces I received, God would be feared by none but would be loved to the point of folly: and through love, not through fear, no one would ever consent to cause Him any pain. | 17-22-5 (Love Jesus, The Love of God, Charity), 24-22-4 (Mercy of God, Grace) |
| 23 | GCII 935, Feb. 24- March 17, 1896, LT 185: to Sr. Gene- vieve (Ce- line). |
50-23-1 |
Through love, Celine will henceforth
press to her heart the thorns of
suffering and contempt, but she has no fear because she knows from
experience that Mary can change into milk the blood flowing from
wounds made by Love…. Celine is pressing the thorns with her left hand, but with her right she is embracing Jesus, the divine bundle of myrrh resting on her heart. Celine will bring forth souls for Him alone, watering the seeds with tears, and Jesus, always joyful, will carry the sheaves of Lilies in His hands…. |
2-23-5 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Cross, Trials), 17-23-7 (Love Jesus, The Love of God, Charity), 22-23-1 (Salvation of Souls) |
| 23 | GCII 960 -961, June 20 or 29(?), 1896, LT 190: to Mother Marie de Gon- zague. |
50-23-2 |
…
“If I were to speak to her,
her trial
would disappear, her heart
would be filled with so great a joy that her staff would never have
seemed so light…but
I do not want
to take her trial away from her,
I want only that she
may understand the truth and
recognize that her
cross is coming from
heaven and
not from earth.” “Lord, speak then to my shepherdess. How do you expect her to understand the truth since she hears only falsehood around her?…” “Little lamb, are you not the favorite of your shepherdess?… Well! Repeat to her the words I am speaking in your heart.” “Jesus, I shall do it, but I would prefer if You gave this charge to one of the sheep whose reasoning is mundane…. I am so little … my voice is so weak, how will my shepherdess believe me?…” “Your shepherdess knows that I am pleased to hide my secrets from the wise and the prudent, she knows I reveal them to the littlest ones, to the simple lambs whose white wool is not soiled by the dust of the road.… She will believe you, and if tears still flow from her eyes, these tears will no longer have the same bitterness, they will adorn her soul with the austere brightness of suffering loved and accepted with gratitude.” |
2-23-7 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials), 20-23-2 (Truth), 44-23-1 (Reveals to Little Ones), 48-23-1 (The Wise and the Prudent) |
| 24 | SS 213 -214. |
50-24-1 | Ah! may Jesus pardon me if I have caused Him any pain, but He knows very well that while I do not have the joy of faith, I am trying to carry out its works at least. I believe I have made more acts of faith in this past year than all through my whole life. At each new occasion of combat, when my enemy provokes me, I conduct myself bravely. Knowing it is cowardly to enter into a duel, I turn my back on my adversary without deigning to look him in the face; but I run towards my Jesus. I tell Him I am ready to shed my blood to the last drop to profess my faith in the existence of heaven. I tell Him, too, I am happy not to enjoy this beautiful heaven on this earth so that he will open it for all eternity to poor unbelievers. | 2-24-5 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials), 27-24-1 (Sinnes, Sins), 42-24-1 (Works, Actions, Great Actions) |