Job offer: Organist – Full-time permanent contract
Located in the diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux, the Shrine of Saint Therese of Lisieux attracts nearly a million pilgrims a year. The Basilica of Saint Therese is the primary destination for pilgrims from around the world to visit the shrine. The Shrine of Lisieux (religious organization) is seeking an organist (M/F) on a permanent, part-time […]
Published on 17 March 2025
Homily of the Rector – Sunday, March 16 “Take time to contemplate Jesus”
Click here to download and print the text in PDF On the way to Lent, the Church invites us to contemplate this astonishing scene from the Gospel: the Transfiguration. An event in which only three apostles are present, Peter, John, and James, but an event that will be recorded in the Gospels. This event is therefore important […]
Published on 17 March 2025
Homily of the Rector – Ash Wednesday “love God and love our brothers”
Click here to download and print the text in pdf I said at the beginning of the Mass that by entering Lent, we were preparing to celebrate Pentecost. I was not mistaken… I did not speak of Easter, I spoke of Pentecost. I spoke of this whole journey of […]
Published on 10 March 2025
Homily of the Rector – Sunday March 2 “our Father is merciful”
Click here to download and print the text in pdf For the third consecutive Sunday, we read what is called the Sermon on the Plain, in chapter 6 in the Gospel of Luke, which began with the beatitudes and the curses. Last Sunday, we heard the call to a love that goes to the end of love, that […]
Published on 5 March 2025
“Thérèse de Lisieux” Review – March 2025: “How thirsty I am for Heaven!”
Download the March editorial in PDF format How thirsty I am for Heaven! Saint Therese, Letter 79 Mortals, but destined for the glory of Heaven “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” This word that God addresses to man in the Book of Genesis is taken up by the liturgy of the […]
Published on 3 March 2025
Homily of the Rector – Sunday February 23 “Amen!”
Click here to download and print the text in pdf In a note from 1946, which is the first text of the little book "The Joy of Believing", Madeleine Delbrêl writes this: The Gospel of Jesus has passages that are almost totally mysterious. We do not know how to pass them through our lives. But there are others […]
February 25, 2025
Homily of the Rector – Sunday February 16 “living with Jesus every day”
Click here to download and print the text in pdf In Saint Teresa, we rarely find mention of the resurrection of Jesus or of the resurrected Christ. This is probably because Teresa never ceases to dialogue with him, and her faith in the resurrected Christ constantly shines through in her […]
February 20, 2025
“Thérèse de Lisieux” Review - February 2025: Thérèse’s Declaration of Love to Jesus
Download PDF version At every moment you give me your grace I live on Love. Saint Therese Therese's declaration of love to Jesus "What comes out of the mouth, Jesus said, is what overflows from the heart." (Mt 15,18:XNUMX). Sister Therese of the Child Jesus composed her poem Living on Love in her heart during adoration […]
February 5, 2025
Homily of the Rector – Sunday February 2 “the Lord offers himself”
Click here to download and print the text in pdf "The Lord you seek will suddenly come to his temple... Who will be able to endure the day of his coming? Who will be able to stand when he appears?" This announcement from the book of Malachi which is given to us as the first reading today; we can have a […]
February 3, 2025
Lisieux Theresian Colloquium – 2024
Organized in the heart of the Teresian week 2024 under the direction of Father François-Marie Lethel ocd, the conference proposed an integral approach to the life of Saint Therese through several conferences of 30 minutes each, in the broadest perspectives of reflection, evangelization and dialogue of cultures. Find below some […]
Published January 22 2025
Homily of the Rector – Sunday January 19 “welcoming the grace of Christ”
Click here to download and print the text in pdf The first reading evokes for us the nuptial dimension that God wants to maintain with his people. When Paul, in the letter to the Ephesians, meditates on this mystery of the Covenant, he even goes so far as to take up the affirmation of the second chapter of Genesis: "Therefore man will leave […]
Published January 20 2025
Homily of the Rector – Sunday January 12 “the merciful love of God”
Click here to download and print the text in pdf “Behold your God! Behold the Lord God!” This is what is manifested in this event, in this epiphany of the Lord, in this baptism of Jesus in the Jordan. Let us pause for a moment to resituate the meaning of John’s baptism. John stands on the eastern bank […]
Published January 16 2025