ST THERESE COUDERC, VIRGIN

ST THERESE COUDERC, VIRGIN - 26 SEPTEMBER

SAINT THERESE COUDERC, VIRGIN

[On] September 26, one of the saints remembered by the Church is Saint Therese Couderc. She was born in 1805 in France, the fourth of twelve children to farmers Claude and Anne Couderc.

As a child, Saint Therese attended Mass twice a week and she made her First Holy Communion in 1815. In 1822 her parents sent her to a boarding school at Vans until 1825 when she returned to attend school in their local area.

After attending a mission given by a young priest, Fr Stephen Terme, Saint Therese was encouraged to enter the novitiate of a new religious order dedicated to education, the Sisters of Saint Regis.

Instead of teaching, Saint Therese and another sister were sent to the mountain village of La Louvesc to help oversee the Shrine of John Francis Regis.

Under her leadership the Shrine developed into a successful retreat house for women. Later the religious order split into two sections; the teaching ministry continued but a new section for retreat work was created known as the Sisters of Our Lady of the Cenacle.

At the age of twenty-three, Saint Therese became the superior general of this retreat work. Financial hardships led to the demotion of Saint Therese and a series of wealthy women were put in place to oversee the retreat work, each one more disastrous than the last. Saint Therese continued to play an important, though unacknowledged, role behind the scenes and the work survived.

During the last twenty years of her life, Saint Therese was granted many mystical graces and a revelation on the complete self-surrender to God. This became the heart of her spirituality and she wrote: 'The surrendered soul has found Paradise on earth.'

Saint Therese died this day, 26th September, 1885.

She was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970. The Sisters of the Cenacle still continue to lead retreats all over the world.

Saint Therese wrote: 'To surrender oneself is more than to devote oneself, more than to give yourself, it is even something more than to abandon oneself to God. In a word, to surrender oneself is to die to everything and to self, to be no longer concerned with self except to keep it continually turned toward God.'

Saint Therese Couderc, pray for us.

From: Spiritual Thought From Fr Chris

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Therese may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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