SERAPHIM PRAYER BOOK
2
LITTLE FLOWER NOVENA
(Daniel
A. Lord, S.J.)
SECOND
X Into the
Martin family
- good but not extraordinary,
pious but not outstanding, firm in faith but surely not
rich in possessions
- came the little daughter who was to be God’s Little
Flower.
God loved her, and in childlike simplicity she loved God as
a tiny child.
Sickness touched her early, and it was the vision of Our
Lady that brought her back to health.
Docile daughter, thoughtful pupil,
sweet companion, gentle sister,
gay with the laughter that comes from the wells of
holiness,
alert to the beauty of earth because it made her think of
the beauty of heaven,
this Little Flower lived and loved as Mary did when she was
young.
When she knelt before the Holy Father and cried out,
“I am young, but I must enter
even the Pope smiled at the rare vision of saintliness in
innocence,
that one so young should already be so holy.
Her first communion was the advent of the love of her life.
Her admission into the Sodality of Our Lady made her
forever a child of Mary.
At a time when the modern world needed saints - and young
saints - she was God’s Little Flower,
lovely and perfumed and ready for the gardens of heaven.
In honour of this Little Flower we say:
The Prayer of Saint
Theresa, the Little Flower of Jesus
O God, who hast said,
“unless you change and become
like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
(Matt
18:3, JB)
grant us, we beseech thee, so to follow
in humility and simplicity
of heart the footsteps of the virgin blessed Saint Theresa
that we may attain to
everlasting reward.
Who livest and reignest with
God the Father
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, world without end.
Amen.
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Novena Petition…
X St Theresa the Little Flower of Jesus, Pray for us. |
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