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Accompanied jubilee procession, every day at 15 p.m. at the Basilica

As part of the 2025 Jubilee “Peregrinantes in Spem”, a priest from the Sanctuary welcomes you every day at the Basilica of Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux to help you with the jubilee process. Meet every day at 15 p.m. in the Upper Basilica at the Chapel of Scotland (left transept)

December 30, 2024

Homily of the Rector for Sunday, December 15: “Jesus, my joy is to love you!”

Click here to download and print the text in pdf The first two readings of this Sunday focus our attention on joy, but the Gospel poses as a prerequisite. The figure of Saint John the Baptist is an essential figure: in his prologue, John the Evangelist tells us the importance of his ministry which is like an entry key […]

December 30, 2024

“Thérèse de Lisieux” Review – January 2025: Happy and Holy New Year

Download PDF version I will try to make you glorious by becoming a great saint Saint Therese, letter 52 Project successful! Less than 30 years after her death, Therese Martin, in religion Therese of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face, Carmelite, was canonized by Pope Pius XI! However, Sister Saint-Vincent de Paul, of the Carmel of Lisieux, said, in […]

December 19, 2024

Homily of the Rector of Sunday, November 24: “The kingship of Christ is a kingship of merciful love which means that there is nothing to fear”

Click here to download and print the text in pdf Today's readings make us contemplate in a certain aspect the kingship of Christ, with first of all this mysterious figure of the Son of Man in the Book of Daniel, which seems to be associated with the mystery of God; a passage from the Old Testament where we can find […]

Posted on 25 November 2024

“Thérèse de Lisieux” Review – November 2024: Aspiring to Holiness

Download the PDF version I can therefore, despite my smallness, aspire to holiness Saint Therese – Ms C, 2v Becoming a saint One of the first written echoes of Therese's desire to be a saint is found in her first communion retreat (she was 11 years old): "I am preparing myself well, I hope to go to […]

December 28, 2024

The mission, vocation of all the baptized

Very often missionary life presents itself to us with images of distant horizons, of journeys. But Thérèse understood it well at Carmel, this call to announce God is proposed to each baptized person, each one is called to illustrate this audacity where God has placed him. We asked Brother François-Marie Lethel, Carmelite in Lisieux, to […]

December 14, 2024

Pope Francis to welcome relics of St. Teresa to Rome in December

For the Jubilee year “Peregrinantes in spem” (Pilgrims of hope), Pope Francis wanted to associate several churches in Rome with holy female figures proclaimed Patrons and Doctors of the Church. It is in Trinità dei Monti, for its link with France, that the reliquary called “statue”, containing a bone from the right foot of Saint Teresa of […]

December 3, 2024

Conference and homily by Mgr d'Ornellas for the opening Sunday of the Feast of Saint Therese 2024

Published on September 30 2024

“The mission is first of all the offering of one’s life”

On December 14, 1927, Pius XI declared Saint Therese of the Child Jesus “Patron saint, in a special capacity, of all missionaries, men and women, and also of the Missions existing throughout the universe. She thus becomes their principal Patron saint, equal to Saint Francis Xavier.” Father Emmanuel Schwab, rector of the sanctuary of Lisieux, responded […]

Published on September 30 2024

Homily of the Rector – Sunday, September 22: “We need silence”

Click here to download and print the text in pdf Silence… Silence plays an important part in the life of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus. She speaks of it on many occasions, saying how much the Lord understands her prayer when she herself is silent, because she does not know how to express what is happening in […]

Published on September 25 2024

“Thérèse de Lisieux” Review – October 2024: Persevering in Prayer

Download the PDF version If Saint Therese, very early in her life, was inwardly drawn to meditation — “I went behind my bed into an empty space that was there and it was easy for me to close it with the curtain and there “I thought”” (Ms A 33v) — very early also after her entry […]

Published on September 18 2024

The Sanctuary is looking for a male/female receptionist for its Reservations department

A beautiful mission where the smile can be heard on the phone, very much in contact with the pilgrims who want to discover Lisieux and meet Saint Therese. In close relationship with the pastoral team of guides and religious, you will respond as closely as possible to the needs of the pilgrims by using your strong listening skills and your great organizational agility and […]

Published on September 4 2024