Encountering St. Therese At A Pizza Place...

This is probably one of things that I still am having a OMG moment. I will say this..St. Therese does make herself known and connects with you (and I notice she does it at times in comical ways like for instance for a friend I had started a novena and the next day turned on the TV to the Rose Bowl with a giant rose on..I didn't know the Rose Bowl was going to be on at that time I clicked it on). I had started a novena and the next day I had gotten in the mail unbeknownst to me a package from her Society of the Little Flower since I am a part of their mailing list with roses on the envelope and roses on the cards for Valetine's Day to send out.

But this is the biggest sign I've ever gotten. My grandma took my mom and I out to lunch for helping her move to this very nice pizza place. As we walked in I wasn't sure what to make of what was staring up at me. At the front of the place they had a Good Luck Maneki Neko Gold Cat to bring in business but that wasn't what made me think, "Wait a minute is that really who I think it is?" and there in the center was a large image of St. Therese or Little Flower complete with roses in front of her.
I was in absolute shock and I told my mother (this happens to be her patron saint, why I know about her and the name she took for her Confirmation.) She had also started a novena and sent out a St. Therese Healing Prayer Card to her godmother who was diagnosed with cancer. (my mom sent it before she found out but was told she was in the hospital, had tests done and our thoughts were to send a card.) I said to my mom, "Don't you think it's something..that we see her in a pizza place..how strange...HER..St. Therese someone we are praying to at this time?") Apparently she had answered the prayers of someone there or perhaps someone is asking for her help with healing. I didn't ask but when I go back I want to know why they have an altar there to her. I can only bet that she has assisted so many times and came through and that was their gratitude for what she had delivered.

I know my mom also started another novena and I am also praying for loved ones that are having health issues to St. Therese. When I started one the picture at the beginning of the post is what I found when going through old drawers to get rid of.

I want to thank St. Therese for all she has done for me, my family and those who are in ill health, recovering, or despair. I connect to her enduring poor health, anxiety, and issues of faith. Although she passed on at a young age of 24 her impact and work has made a profound difference. St. Therese, you really are keeping your last wish of spending heaven doing good upon the earth. We love you.

Words of St. Therese...Prayerful Reflection.

 You can use this as a prayer or way to start off the day. It is a simple, direct way to ask for St. Therese's presence in your life.

  

“May today there be peace within.

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content knowing you are a child of God.

Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.”
― Thérèse de Lisieux

St. Jude..Super Saint

St. Jude has struck again...he is a superhero of a saint.

So, get this...there was a very hopeless situation I was in.
I had an Echocardiogram done in the beginning of April
and the results kept getting lost or not faxed..(back
and forth with the hospital..) and this was now May.
I was concerned there was something not right with
my heart and was waiting for the evidence to back this
up.

Finally, I gave up. I sent a petition to St. Jude's shrine in Chicago
online and said a prayer to him to please do something because
I needed those results.

When I woke up the next morning I had the clear inspiration
and thought that the printer I had..also had a fax machine.
I don't know why this hadn't struck me before but the idea
was practical enough. Set up the fax machine, hook it up
and have them fax the results over to you.

I didn't think I would be able to read the printer's manual
or know what I was doing but I kept saying St. Jude's
name to show me how to do it right and that it would work.
I set it up and was able to get the faxed results.

Turned out there were abnormalities on the test that
shouldn't be on heart with a defect.

Now, I have to say here..I'm asking St. Jude help
for my health again but am also remembering to say THANK YOU
publicly again St. Jude for what you did.

Call on St. Jude today..you won't get a bill!

St. Jude...A Caring Attitude...A Tech Guy Dude Too..

 So, I sent out a quick request to St. Jude..because I tried over seven times to enter my information to submit online and it wasn't going through. I kept getting error messages..so for some unknown reason I thought to send a petition online at his shrine based in Chicago. About a minute later after sending that request through about fixing that and asking for him to do something...I got this inspiration out of nowhere..and I wasn't sure why I hadn't thought of it before but I decided to open up regular Internet Explorer to fill out the form instead of using Mozilla Firefox which is my web browser. I was overcome with a feeling that it was going to work..and guess what..I'm surprised to say it did. I'm actually really confused at the moment because I hadn't taken him for a tech-whiz fellow or Saint of the Internet..(I mean there weren't even computers when he was around)..but it was an impossible situation because I was ready to not even bother since it wasn't working.

Thanks St. Jude!

Check out his shrine to read his story, send e-prayer cards, send your petitions, light a candle, and more!

Hey Jude...

One of the most popular saints ever petitioned is St. Jude Thaddeus or St. Jude( I mean can you imagine Paul McCartney singing a new rendition of Hey Jude..with St. Jude..). He is widely known as the patron saint of lost cases and impossible things. He is the one you go to for money, career or any other type of crisis. Most often he assists you out last minute or comes through in a way you hadn't conceived of but he reportedly gets the job done.

It's no coincidence that the meaning behind his name is generous, kind, and courageous because he lived this life this way and answers others through those channels.

It is customary to publish a word of thanks and devotion to him and the prayer that you used to in a way advertise his services. With social media being the way it is you might also do a video, post it on Facebook, or tweet it.

The entire back story of how St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and widespread attention for St. Jude's Shrine all begins with actor Danny Thomas. You see at the time he was struggling to make it in the entertainment biz and was a nightclub entertainer not getting much money or attention that he needed to provide for of his expanding family and to get paid more for his gigs. He stagehand told him about St. Jude..okay practically bragged about that was that the saint to approach because his wife had a miraculous turn around from cancer that didn't seem it would ever happen after he petitioned to him. Let's just say Danny Thomas bargained with St. Jude..help me out and I'll do something big in your name. He started out small with prayers to St. Jude and little by little starting earning more money and landing gigs..eventually his very prayers were answered. You can read the entire story here.

Here is the prayer to say to him:

Most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of.

Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone. Make use I implore you, of that particular privilege given to you, to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of.

Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly (here make your request) and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever.

I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you.

Amen.

Spark Notes: I must say this..sometimes you may say a novena and you don't have an evident evidence that it's being answered and you go wtf was that about and wonder if they are there. I will say this. You can't blame a saint if nothing happens and other instances you really don't know what is going on..perhaps a learning lesson in patience, faith, or seeing the good in others; maybe it's just for you to learn more about that saint and making a closer bond with them by petitioning them and becoming familiar with your life as it will give you persistence in your own; or things can take longer to answer or maybe the infamous line of whatever will be, will be. Do know the saint or saints you ask for are with you regardless of the outcome. They are present with you.

Shower of Roses......

Shower of Roses--Therese J. Borchard on Saint Therese of Lisieux the Little Flower Catholic - Beliefnet.com

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.