Feast day October 1
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
The Little Flower / Doctor of the Church · 1873–1897
For the Little Way — small things with great love, the path open to all.
In their words
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice.
Life
A Carmelite nun who entered the convent at 15 and died at 24 of tuberculosis. Her autobiography, Story of a Soul, introduced the "Little Way" — a spirituality of trust, simplicity, and doing small things with great love. Declared Doctor of the Church in 1997.
A prayer
Act of Oblation (abridged)
O my God, I offer thee all my actions of this day for the intentions and for the glory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I desire to sanctify every beat of my heart, my every thought, my simplest works, by uniting them to his infinite merits; and I wish to make reparation for my sins by casting them into the furnace of his merciful love.