I was born on the feast day of St. Therese ( October 01) and she's been instrumental in my calling to the priesthood. Currently in my pastoral year serving as a missionary in Thailand and by God's grace assigned in St. Therese of Lisieux Parish. Please pray for me Brothers and Sisters. St. Therese teach us always your little way each day. Pray for us 🙏
This was amazing! I struggle with the feeling that God does not love me so much bc of my brokenness or bc of my weaknesses. This line was interesting: “God doesn’t love us the way we want to be loved; that’s unreal.” Yes, sometimes God uses tough love. It reminded me of St. Teresa of Avila saying to God, no wonder you have so few friends. Thank you so much Bishop Greg. After I finished watching the video I thought about what you said and I felt God looking at me with so much love. It warmed my heart… 🌹❤️
Thankyou Bishop Greg. So many memories of when I could attend carmel myself and had become a Secular member. God called me into Carmel.. yes through much pain and inability and suffering in my life. His Love caused me to fall in love with Jesus and this turned my life upside down because my husband "didn't know me any more " he said. Our PP. gave me a book called "Story of a Soul" (later also St. Teresa and St. John). He kept saying to me: "You need to speak to the carmelites." Finally I said: "alright where are these carmelites?"and took me to speak to the Carmelites, then at Box Hill in Victoria. What a Blessing to know I wasn't going completely mad. The LOVE I had experienced and the suffering were all part of of the "journey".. as God calls the soul back to Himself. May He be blessed and praised for ever.
My second name is Therese. When I was born on 8 December 1947 I had a health problem. I could not eat and was expected to die. The hospital in Baden (Switzerland) where I was born was run by nuns at that time. The nuns felt I needed a second name after Marie and I was named after Therese of Lisieux. Now I understand why the nuns insisted that my mother gives me a second name when I was baptised after 5 days. Three years later my mother had my sister. She has only one name called Ursula. Thank you Bishop Greg.
This is so timely. I am going through an awful lot at work, which makes me feel so insecure, inferior and unwanted. I have many limitations especially when l need to speak in public l just freeze stutter and can’t get the message across. I am constantly accused of not communicating promptly but in my mind l need to gather facts, process and give out accurate information. I do forget to do things and sometimes l can’t do things as well as l should. I am trying to change my job, look for something else to do but the feeling of brokenness cripples me. I walk with God pray my rosary daily and read the Word. This reminder that God is close to us in our brokenness is so Powerful. Please Jesus let me experience your love for me. I can’t change myself. I need you and need to experience your Love and walk in confidence in spite of my many shortcomings and failures. Jesus l trust in you. Amen
Beautiful talk. It's good to change our mindset like Therese did. Come to me, Lord, in my brokenness and weaknesses, do not it away. Come to me in my real nature lord. Thank you Bishop. Honor and glory to you father God. Please pray for us mama mary for those of us struggling with perfection and change our mindset like therese did!
❤ I have experienced the love of the Holy Spirit. Tremendous Pure Love going through all my body cells. I was no longer attached to a medical physician I was free from that attachment . I was myself again with The Holy Spirit as my attachment. I was also freed from a bad relationship. And a sin was wiped away in a flash. In Peace. Etc etc I'm writing about it all. I love God very much . He is my life.❤❤❤
Thank Bishop Graig for this wonderful talk! I truly experienced a rose’s miracle in 2009, until 2 years later (2011 ) before my baptism it was time for me to choose my baptism name, I just dared to share the miracle at RCIA group meeting…then, my sponsor told me that the rose miracle I experienced 2 years ago was from St Therese…. It makes me tearing every time I tell this true experience 😢😢
Great talk. I am in love with St. Therese that I too seek her guidance and intercessions. Though about the topic of theology vs spirituality, I believe that we cannot simply dismiss theology because it is also the knowledge of knowing God thus making us love Him more. Some people might have achieved spirituality because they have learned through Theology, God. And those who already have the spirituality, thus being able to experience God, are wanting to know about Him more. In this regard I believe the spiritual person then goes on the journey of expanding his/her knowledge of God (the Holy Trinity, the Passion of Jesus, the Blessed Mother, the prayers, etc…) they are able to obtain a deeper understanding then are able to love God more.
God has been so very generous to me througout my life, I know he hears me but for some reason I have not experience God's love for me. Please pray that I may come to experience God's love so that I can love others as He loves.
Indeed, spirituality is the experience of God in our life. I agree that we can most feel God's presence in times of uncertainties and sufferings. That I personally experienced. His presence is so much felt and comforting.
Thank you for this talk, which has given me so much to dwell on and pray through. I have been blessed by your explanations and by your Sunday homilies in the online masses, to which I listen.
⛪My Lord, thank you. You spoke profoundly on the brokenness of St. Therese. One of her siblings now Ven. Leonie Martin was also a very suffering and broken soul. Not charming in any way, not mentally gifted like Therese and her other siblings and with a nasty skin condition from infancy to her death also in suffering found God. The Little Way was her bedside book. That wonderful family DID suffer and won Heaven "by violence. " Looking forward to Pt. II. God bless.
Thank you Bishop fiat praying for all our needs. Amen 🙏 graces indulgences con versions for all humble holy beings obedience is patient persevere and grace and mercy and 😊❤
I would disagree with Teresa of Avila on that point as the things I do not like are injustice, racial hatred, genocide, cruelty to animals and environmental destruction and I think God hates those things also.
Hope I help. Theresa looked at her own brokenness. We each feels like we are weak in evil. God uses our one spirit to do much if we ask God to take us in small way to help us makes a difference. Parts of God's plan may be small but like a pebble in a pond. Ripples occur. God does hate what you hate. He wants us to trust him and allow us to be a holy spirit ripple. How? To each one of us it is between God and us. I hate what you hate too. ❤
Only recently, the church decided to NOT put out Holy water for the people during lent. Mommy Mary said in the last days the church would stop many traditions for modernism and become a synagogue of satan and many would perish. Beware satan's time is short and he's trying to take as many as possible. Orlando FL is desperate for the saints prayers. Not 1 Traditional Latin Mass. Pray for holy priest on fire for Jesus and Mary, doing what's right in boldness!!! His Bride made herself ready Revelation 19:7
