This happens not so much during my hours of prayer as when I’m busy with my daily work. Yet this story of my soul, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual classic, read by millions and translated into. Just when I need it, a new light shines on my problems. He guides and inspires me every moment of the day. I have never heard Him speak, but I know that He is within me. He, the Doctor of doctors, can teach without words. Jesus has no need of books or doctors of the Church to guide souls. I understand and, by experience, I know that the Kingdom of God is within us. They are always showing me new ways of looking at things, and I am always finding hidden and mysterious meanings in them. But, above all, the Gospels help me in my prayers. In them I find hidden manna, a pure and substantial food. When I’m in this state, the Bible and The Imitation come to my rescue. If I glance at a book, no matter how good and moving it is, my heart at once contracts and I read without understanding or, if I understand, I cannot meditate on it. But as I grew older, religious writers left me quite unmoved. When I was between seventeen and eighteen, they were my only spiritual food. It was first published on September 30, 1898, a year to the day after her death from tuberculosis at the age of 24, on September 30, 1897. “I have had great enlightenment from the writings of St. The Story of a Soul (lHistoire dune Âme) is the autobiography of Thérèse of Lisieux, a French Discalced Carmelite nun, later recognized as a saint.
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