Saint Therese illustrates her ‘Little Way’ with a smile given to everyone, the friendly and the difficult alike. Let us ask for the grace to smile today.
Saint Therese suffered from tuberculosis and so should be declared the protecting saint, the guiding saint, the patron saint of the world in this time of pandemic. A novena is a prayer across nine days and in this novena we ask Therese to continue to “spend her heaven doing good on earth.”