The Development of Holiness as Growth in Love in Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face

What if Holiness were not a distant goal, but a Path of growth in Love, lived through the little things of everyday life?
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face longed to become a great Saint. Acknowledging her littleness, she discovered that this desire could not be fulfilled through her own efforts alone, but through Trust in God and surrender to His Merciful Love.
What if Holiness were not a distant goal, but a Path of growth in Love, lived through the little things of everyday life?
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face longed to become a great Saint. Acknowledging her littleness, she discovered that this desire could not be fulfilled through her own efforts alone, but through Trust in God and surrender to His Merciful Love.
Born of a master’s thesis in Spiritual Theology, this book traces the unfolding of that discovery through Saint Thérèse’s three Autobiographical Manuscripts: from childhood and the awakening of her Vocation to the discovery of Love at the heart of the Church, through trials of Faith and the daily practice of Fraternal Love.
With photographs that bring the reader closer to her Life, this book invites a deeper understanding of her “little Way”: a Path where frailty is no obstacle to Holiness and where the simplest gestures can become expressions of great Love.
For anyone wishing to know Saint Thérèse better, deepen their Faith, or find inspiration for their own Spiritual Life, these pages offer an invitation to walk alongside her — and to discover that growing in Holiness means growing in Love.