The Way of Love: The Passion of Thérèse of Lisieux (Via Zoom)

February 26, 9:00am-12:00pm (Central Time)

$25 preregistered/prepaid.

Registration Deadline: February 24 (A link will be sent to you one day prior to the event.)

Co-Sponsored with Calvary & St. Luke’s Episcopal Churches

Two notebooks and a letter, highly edited and rearranged, became The Story of A Soul, a spiritual classic written by a young woman who entered her cloister at 15 and died there at the age of 24. That classic made Thérèse (1873-1897) the most well-beloved saint of the 20th century worldwide. However, a more profound story unveils when her work is read as she wrote it; a spoiled child matures into an insightful young woman struggling with spiritual darkness and the apparent absence of God as she faces death.

In her short life, Thérèse developed a creative form of spirituality out of the limitations of her own personality, her imperfections, and stifling environment. While she is most famous for her “little way of love” – a way to God, accessible to anyone, the apparent absence of God in the last 18 months of her life wrought in her a deep, unitive mysticism. Her ingenious response “democratizes” the “Dark Night of the Soul” for us.

The 3 presentations, The Way of Imperfection, The Way of Love, The Way of Darkness (plus a conclusion with discussion) will be accompanied by the 19th century photos; many of them of life inside the Carmelite community, taken by Thérèse’s sister, Celine.

Suzanne Guthrie creates Soulwork Toward Sunday, a weekly online retreat on the coming Sunday’s Gospel. She served the church as an Episcopal parish priest, and a college, university, and convent chaplain. She is a frequent contributor to Christian Century and other publications. A mother of four and grandmother of two, Suzanne and her husband, Bill, live in New York’s Hudson Valley. She came to appreciate Thérèse reluctantly.

You can find Soulwork Toward Sunday at: http://EdgeOfEnclosure.org

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