The Father of the Little Flower Mirus

The Father of the Little Flower MirusLouis Martin was the pattern of Fatherhood on which St. Therese built her now famous Little Way of Spiritual Childhood. Louis was declared Venerable by the Church in 1994, along with his wife Zelie, because of his Heroic Virtue. What kind of a father was he? These reminiscences describe Louis Martin's marriage at age 34, his love and support for Zelie, his firm discipline yet tender affection for his children, his piety, observance of Sunday, business

the world saw Cardinal Ratzinger speak so beautifully and eloquently at the pope's funeral

a Marist priest

a Catholic who attends Mass every Sunday

and all ages

and the relation of the Church to the arts and her artists

Come to a vivid new sense of Christ's Presence in the Eucharist

a thesis that was regarded as heterodox at the time but which today is widely accepted by scholars of the most diverse standpoint Rosen was also one of the first to study in detail the philosophical significance of the phenomenon of concrete human sexuality

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-Mother Angelica

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