St. Jude Catholic Church at 21689 Toledo Rd, Boca Raton, FL 33433 US - Oil of St. Therese
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St. Therese, the Little Flower
The Carmelite saint most identified with roses is the Little Flower, St. Therese of the Child Jesus, who often employed the imagery of nature in describing her relation to the Lord. Here last know photograph depicts her sitting in a wheelchair before the cloister garden where she was assigned to care for as a novice, but now weakened by the advanced stage of tuberculosis at tender age of twenty four, she utters a silent prayer as the slowly peels away at a rose allowing each petal to touch the crucifix which now lays on her lap. However, it was on her deathbed where she uttered the most memorable analogous phrase with reference to the rose; she "would spend her heaven doing good upon earth ... by letting fall from heaven a shower of roses."
From this legacy evolved a short but powerful aspiration, "St. Therese, the Little Flower, please pick me a rose from the heavenly garden and send it to me with a message of love. Ask God to grant me the favor I thee implore {state intention here}, and tell him I love him each day more and more." Tradition holds that if you say this short novena prayer, followed by five Our Fathers, five Hail Mary's, and five Glory Be's each day for five days, you will receive a host of roses on the fifth day.
From this legacy evolved a short but powerful aspiration, "St. Therese, the Little Flower, please pick me a rose from the heavenly garden and send it to me with a message of love. Ask God to grant me the favor I thee implore {state intention here}, and tell him I love him each day more and more." Tradition holds that if you say this short novena prayer, followed by five Our Fathers, five Hail Mary's, and five Glory Be's each day for five days, you will receive a host of roses on the fifth day.
