Story of a Soul

Description

Story of a Soul is Saint Therese of Lisieux’s famous autobiographical work and spiritual memoir. She shares her spiritual journey, her struggles to grow in holiness, and her “Little Way.”

Two and a half years before her death in 1897 at the age of 24, as Thérèse Martin began writing down her childhood memories at the request of her blood sisters in the Lisieux Carmel, few could have guessed the eventual outcome. Yet this Story of my soul, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual classic, read by millions and translated into dozens of languages around the world.

Written under obedience, the book conveys her secrets of great holiness achieved in ordinary life, teaching the “Little Way of Spiritual Childhood” her “elevator” to Heaven, as she called it. She continually shows us in this book how her “Little Way of love and confidence” comes straight from Sacred Scripture. This method has since been approved and promulgated by Pope Pius XI as a way of holiness for all.

Saint Therese’s Little Way is one of the foundational sources for From the Abbey‘s Planning for Grace online spirituality program. One of the main lessons of Planning for Grace is how to live with God at the center of your daily life.

No Catholic should be ignorant of the mighty “little” Therese or her Little Way. The Story of a Soul is a book that belongs in every Catholic home.

This is the TAN Classics version of this classic work in Catholic spirituality edited by Mother Agnes of Jesus.