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Quote of the day, 10 January: Marie Martin

My dear little daughter, I don’t want the eve of such a beautiful day to pass by without speaking a little word to her from her Jesus. Her Jesus! He has made her a bed of lilies! “My beloved browses among the lilies!” [Song 6:3], says the spouse in the Canticle.

I want to give my little daughter the only picture that is dear to me among all others…. Aunt at Le Mans [Sr. Marie-Dosithée, V.S.M.] gave it to me, and I am attached to it, for it says much to my heart.

But all for the little fiancée of Jesus! What is too beautiful for her?

Oh! yes, “…happy the lily that remained without spot until the hour of reaping” [inscription on the holy card mentioned above]. One day, we shall reap, rejoicing! [Ps 126:5] And this hour will come! And it will be a day without clouds, and the more we shall have suffered the more radiant that day will be. Then! then! Ah! I keep silent…. This day will be so beautiful, it will be so sweet, this day which will have no setting!!

My whole heart to my dear angel, whom I adorned for Jesus on the day of her First Communion and whom I’ll adorn on the day of her espousals.

Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart, O.C.D. (Marie Martin)

Letter LC 107 to St. Thérèse, 9 January 1889

Note: During the Ordinary Process, Pauline Martin explained the date chosen for St. Thérèse’s clothing: “Having begun her postulancy in April, at the age of 15 years and three months, normally she could have received the habit within six months, before the end of October; in fact, she wasn’t clothed until 10 January 1889. Around that time our father was very ill, and we hoped that this delay would enable him to attend her clothing ceremony at a later date.”

Thérèse of Lisieux, S & Clarke, J 1982, General Correspondence: Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux: Volume 1 1877-1890, Centenary ed., Institute of Carmelite Studies, Washington DC.

Featured image: The lilium longiflorum is also known as the Easter lily. Image credit: Golden Age Photos / Adobe Stock (Stock photo)

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Quote of the day, 3 January: St. Zélie

My little girl was born last night, Thursday [January 2], at eleven-thirty. She’s very strong and in very good health. They tell me she weighs eight pounds. Let’s say six, which is still not bad. She seems very sweet…

I barely suffered a half hour. What I felt before was practically nothing. She’ll be baptized tomorrow, Saturday. The only thing missing to make the celebration complete is all of you. Marie is going to be the godmother, and a little boy close to her age will be the godfather.

I received your letter, as well as the box containing the New Year’s gifts. I don’t know if I should scold you. I want to very much, and yet I also want to thank you, but everything is too beautiful and too expensive. Céline wore her beautiful fur and muff for the first time on the first day of the year.

I wish all of you a happy New Year. Please remember me to Monsieur and Madame Fournet and Monsieur and Madame Maudelonde.

I look forward to sending you a longer letter. I can’t write a long one today.

Marie and Pauline have been on vacation since Tuesday evening. They’ll stay with me until Monday or Tuesday.

Saint Zélie Guérin Martin

Letter CF 84 to her sister-in-law Céline Fournet Guérin
3 January 1873

Note: M. and Mme. Fournet were the parents of Céline Fournet Guérin, the wife of St. Zélie’s brother Isidore. M. and Mme. Maudelonde were Céline Guérin’s sister, Marie-Rosalie Fournet Maudelonde and her husband César. The Maudelonde, Guérin and Martin families often saw each other in Lisieux or on vacation, especially at Trouville.

Martin, Z 2011, A Call to a Deeper Love: The Family Correspondence of the Parents of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, 1863-1885, Society of St. Paul, New York.

Featured image: Photographer Glen Bledsoe captures this image of a vintage cradle and bedroom in the Methodist Parsonage at Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, Oregon. Image credit: glenbledsoe / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

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