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March Editorial “Jesus is alive!”
Thérèse speaks little about the resurrection of Jesus as such. But she lives it very truly. Here are three stanzas from the poem 23 “To the Sacred Heart of Jesus”: 3. One day, oh my God, like Madeleine, I wanted to see you, to approach you My gaze plunged into the immense plain Whose I was searching for Master […]
Published on 5 March 2024
Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis on Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face
Apostolic Exhortation “It is Confidence” from Pope Francis on trust in the merciful love of God on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux 1. “It is confidence and nothing but confidence which must lead us to Love”.[1] 2. These very strong words of Saint Thérèse […]
December 15, 2023
Homily from the rector – Sunday April 21, 2024
Click here to download and print the text in pdf Three points can attract our attention from today's readings. The first is always the same: “Jesus the Nazarene, whom you crucified, God raised from the dead.” This is the heart of our conversion. This is the heart of our attachment […]
Published on 23 April 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday April 14, 2024
Click here to download and print the text in pdf To the disciples of Emmaus, Jesus, one could say, “put his foot down” so that they understood that what he had done on the evening of Maundy Thursday in the Pascal meal was really meant to be reiterated. Jesus leads them, in this gesture of the fraction of […]
Published on 17 April 2024
Recruitment: the Sanctuary is looking for its Feutier
The Lisieux sanctuary is looking for a VERSATILE FEUTIER/AGENT M/F to strengthen the current team. Contract: Full-time permanent contract Remuneration according to profile Workplace: 33 rue du Carmel 14100 LISIEUX Work on weekends and public holidays Position to be filled as soon as possible. CONTEXTLocated in the diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux, the Sanctuary of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux […]
Published on 10 April 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday April 7, 2024
Click here to download and print the text in pdf The other day, I gave my name and telephone number to a person who, to remember it, wrote my name and telephone number in the palm of his hand . She wrote it on her skin. In the book of Isaiah, […]
Published on 9 April 2024
Change of time of Sunday mass at the Basilica
From this Sunday, April 7, 2024, the Sunday morning mass at the Basilica will take place at 11 a.m. By decision of the rector of the Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux Sanctuary, the Sunday mass at 10:30 a.m. is now postponed to 11 a.m. in order to offer pilgrims Lisieux more choice by offering distinct schedules […]
Published on 3 April 2024
Rector’s Homily – Easter
Click here to download and print the text in pdf Apparently, there is something to see... but how? First we have to see reality, it is the first thing that is tangible to us, that is accessible to us. The gospel is precise in its description. Translations are less so. Marie went to […]
Published on 2 April 2024
Homily by the rector – Vigile Pascale
Click here to download and print the text in pdf “Resurrected from the dead, Christ no longer dies, death no longer has power over him. » Something definitive happened for all humanity in the resurrection of Jesus: death no longer has power over him. In Jesus, death is dead […]
Published on 2 April 2024
Rector’s Homily – Maundy Thursday
Click here to download and print the text in pdf Humility. Reciprocity. Acknowledgement. Humility first. This is something that touches Saint Thérèse very much: this humility of God who makes himself so small. In her prayer to obtain humility, which she wrote late in July 1897, Thérèse prays thus: O Powerful Monarch of Heaven, yes my soul […]
Published on 29 March 2024
Your free booklet: a week to let yourself be captivated by the wonder of hope with Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
On the occasion of Holy Week, the climax of Lent, the Sanctuary of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux invites you to live a path of conversion with Saint Thérèse to renew your faith and let yourself be touched by the One who constantly knocks at the door of your heart and invites you to live his Life fully. […]
Published on 21 March 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday March 17, 2024
Click here to download and print the text in pdf We have, in the first reading, one of the great prophetic announcements. — it is in the prophet Jeremiah — of the new Covenant promised by God. And the characteristic of this new Covenant is: “I will put my Law deep within them; I will write it on their […]
Published on 18 March 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday March 10, 2024
Click here to download and print the text in pdf The people of God installed on the earth to which God led them end up forgetting God, multiplying infidelities, profaning the house of God through idolatry, abandoning the commandments. And mercifully the Lord God sends prophets to him so that man can […]
Published on 15 March 2024