In his book, Patience with God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing In Us, Tomáš Halík has an intriguing chapter on Thérèse of Lisieux. In it, I read many things I hadn’t known about her and gained a completely novel perspective on her value.
Here are some selected excerpts:
St. Francis of Assisi
“In half an hour, I’ll know more than you do”
On this Ash Wednesday, I am recalling those words spoken by Fr. Alfred Delp to a chaplain shortly before the Nazis executed the priest by hanging.
Throughout history, there are certain persons who display such a remarkably supernatural outlook toward death.
Here are a handful of examples excerpted from St. Alphonsus Maria De Liguori’s Preparation for Death: