A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet...

St. Therese is the saint of love, healing, anxiety and mental afflictions but also for a whole boat load of other instances including when one is near death or dying.

Before she passed on she said that her real life's mission would begin after her death..that she would let fall from heaven a shower of roses.

When she is with you or intervenes roses (we're talking people with the name, fake ones, her card or email getting sent to you, roses be given to you out of nowhere..the scent of roses..it goes on and on ) is the way that she gently lets you know she has heard you're request and is answering it.

She always believed in the little way meaning doing every action with love and that no action was ever small.

There a few ways you can petition her for help...they say that doing her novena is preferable especially the traditional way where you say the novena to her, followed by 5 Our Father's, 5 Hail Mary's and 5 Glory Be's all before 11AM for 5 days. On the 5th and final day you offer another set of the 5 Our Father's Haily Mary's and Glory Be's. Many report quick miracles and intervention choosing this way but others have had great success with just reciting the novena below. Just have a little faith.

There is also another way you can contact her that is very simple. Just talk to her from the heart. She believed so much in prayer and doing it with love so if you can't say the novena for any reason or forget she won't give you roses with thorns. Just let her know what's going on and she will send roses to you too.

My Novena Rose Prayer

O Little Therese of the Child Jesus,
please pick for me a rose from the heavenly gardens
and send it to me as a message of love.

O Little Flower of Jesus,
ask God to grant the favors I now place
with confidence in your hands . .

(Mention specific requests)

St. Therese, help me to always believe
as you did in God's great love for me,
so that I might imitate your "Little Way" each day.

Amen.