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Summary: A feast of saintly wantonness
Review: Ahern sets before you and I a fine feast of saintly wantonness.The private words of Maurice and Therese, as expressed in 21 letters, bond them to us as nothing else possibly could. Maurice becomes for Therese, the Promise that her "Little Way" shows a divine path to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Ahern's interpretation and introspection, help us to see reflections of ourselves as we too walk, as we too attempt their journey. In Maurice's words, we stumble as we reach for Therese's ever extended grace. In Therese's passionate words, we delight in a shared canticle of love. But, the final transformation and journey allows us to rejoice and shed tears for both of our saints.
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Summary: A book that will touch your heart in a unique way
Review: Even for those familiar with St. Therese, one of the most popular Saints of the Church, this powerful book will move readers in a special way. Bishop Ahern's insights about each letter add a richness and context to the letters, which even by themselves are breathtakingly beautiful. This book challenges us to live our lives better and to live the Gospel, and shows that it can be done.
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Summary: An exquisite memoir of Therese's friendship with Maurice
Review: I am delighted to see the correspondence between Maurice and Therese, which I have appreciated for many years in Therese's letters, so beautifully interpreted here. Rich in insights in Therese's love for her "dear little brother," to whom she wrote, "I see how much your soul is sister to mine . . . "; in insight into her missionary consciousness, her love for the priesthood, her acute compassion for humanity, her extraordinary availability to souls, her theology. Bishop Ahern's luminous appreciation of Therese and Maurice lights the book up. Therese ended her correspondence with these words written on the back of holy picture, "last souvenir of a soul, sister of your own soul," and this book is truly that.
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Summary: A Testimony of God's Love
Review: I had never much cared for St. Therese--largely because her followers made her out to be a somewhat maudlin "little flower." After reading this book, I realized that the "little flower" is actually a giant Sequoia. The passionate love of God and its expression in the support and prayers given to a fellow religious are profoundly moving. I found myself lingering over passages and truly beginning to understand why Therese's "Little Way" has been called "an elevator to union with God." Highly, highly recommended.
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Summary: A Testimony of God's Love
Review: I had never much cared for St. Therese--largely because her followers made her out to be a somewhat maudlin "little flower." After reading this book, I realized that the "little flower" is actually a giant Sequoia. The passionate love of God and its expression in the support and prayers given to a fellow religious are profoundly moving. I found myself lingering over passages and truly beginning to understand why Therese's "Little Way" has been called "an elevator to union with God." Highly, highly recommended.
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Summary: A Testimony of God's Love
Review: I had never much cared for St. Therese--largely because her followers made her out to be a somewhat maudlin "little flower." After reading this book, I realized that the "little flower" is actually a giant Sequoia. The passionate love of God and its expression in the support and prayers given to a fellow religious are profoundly moving. I found myself lingering over passages and truly beginning to understand why Therese's "Little Way" has been called "an elevator to union with God." Highly, highly recommended.
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Summary: A book with heart
Review: I have read several books about St. Therese (including her autobiography) and like her sister Marie, I understood the words but the "Little Way" always seemed rather unremarkable, or maybe even indeterminate, to me. This book vitalized the rhetoric and presented a Therese who was much more alive and human than I had perceived before. Her Little Way, as presented here, resonates on an emotional level as opposed to an intellectual one and is all the more accessible. This is a book that operates on multi-levels: It is a warm and humane story of both love and death, a historical novel set in an age of innocence or a theological thesis that really isn't. It is a book with heart that can be read for whatever one needs, or takes, from it. A very good book. I liked it a lot.
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Summary: A most beautiful love story....
Review: I read The Story of a Love while waiting for the Story of a Soul to arrive, and after reading the Story of a Soul I appreciate The Story of a Love that much more. Patrick Ahern beautifully tours us through a God-centered, God-inspired, holy love between a nun and priest who became dear friends despite never meeting each other. The Story of a Love will inspire you to treasure and place God at the center your friendships. This is a must read that you won't be able to put down.
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Summary: A most beautiful book about Little Therese of Lisieux
Review: if you admire and hold lots of devotion for St. Therese of Lisieux as I have for so long now- she always said she was Little Therese. However in this book the most moving charisma of her love and personality are seen in a "big" way regarding her friendship with Maurice. We see a saint so full of love and compassion for his shortcomings and never does she once in this book show anything but encouragement to Maurice. There are many lessons to be learned in reflecting on this book . One of the most significant things I feel is our should be support to our priests, bishops and clergy in the universal catholic church. As Maurice radiates in this book as an aspiring semanarian our clergy does have up's and down's also. May we all love our clergy as St. Therese did, does and symbolizes her special love for the priests, and bishops. A most marvelous book. As the late John Cardinal O'Connor said in his review to Ahern's book " We see Therese now more as a woman and we are fascinated. :)
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Summary: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Review: Just when I thought I could not love St.Therese anymore than I do, a dear friend tells me about this book. I feel this book was written just for me,as St.Therese has that way of making a person feel very special! I find myself "visiting" with St.Therese all through my day now. Treat yourself to this book!
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