Carmelite homily for Tuesday, December 3, 2019 – Lectionary 176
Saint Therese of Lisieux was looking for some way to articulate her Little Way and she found this passage in the Book of Wisdom: “Whoever is a little one, let him come to me.” And she concludes, “The elevator which will raise me to heaven is your arms, O Jesus, and for this I had no reason to grow up but rather to remain little and to become this more and more.” In today’s Gospel we have this image of becoming childlike and things that are hidden are revealed to the little ones. I think that is Therese’s Little Way. Let Jesus do this. Let Jesus accomplish this. Let Jesus’ grace work through us. Be little, and let Jesus do the work.