[Interview] Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux : pourquoi elle fascine

[Interview] Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: why she fascinates

Father Olivier Ruffray, administrator of the Sanctuary of Lisieux, speaks at the microphone of Timothée Dhellemmes of the figure of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her beatification and the 150th anniversary of her birth. Click HERE to watch the video!

Posted on 10 July 2023

Neuvaine à la Vierge Marie

Novena to the Virgin Mary

Day 1 Ah! I would like to sing, Marie, why I love you Why your name so sweet makes my heart tremble And why the thought of your supreme greatness Cannot inspire fear in my soul. If I contemplated you in your sublime glory And surpassing the brilliance of all the blessed That I am your […]

Posted on 6 July 2023

“Thérèse de Lisieux : Une sainte pour un temps de crise”, Rome 7 juin 2023

“Thérèse of Lisieux: A saint for a time of crisis”, Rome June 7, 2023

Rome, June 7, 2023. The relics of Saint Teresa are at the Teresianum in Rome, with Carmelite friars for a 2-day colloquium on holiness. Father François-Marie Lethel, ocd, gives a conference entitled “Thérèse of Lisieux: A saint for a time of crisis”. The Carmelite was sent by his order […]

Posted on 8 June 2023

Pérégrination des reliques de Thérèse de Lisieux et de ses parents Louis et Zélie Martin en Italie du 3 au 18 juin 2023

Peregrination of the relics of Thérèse of Lisieux and her parents Louis and Zélie Martin in Italy from June 3 to 18, 2023

Programma in italiano Prepared for several months by the Pontifical College of Russicum (an institution of ecclesiastical formation for the Catholic clergy of Eastern origin – welcoming in particular seminarians of Russian and Ukrainian nationality, seminary having been founded under the patronage of Saint Thérèse, a pilgrimage exceptional relics of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and […]

Posted on 2 June 2023

Revoir la messe d’installation du nouveau recteur du Sanctuaire

Review the installation mass of the new rector of the Sanctuary

Published May 23 2023

Édito de Mai “Ô Marie”

May editorial “O Mary”

Like an apotheosis, on her bed of abandonment and suffering hollowed out in her by illness and the night of Faith like an ultimate hymn to the Glory of God, Saint Thérèse wrote her last poem dedicated to the Virgin Mary in which she testified all the filial affection which is his for that […]

Published May 9 2023

Édito de Mars “La Charité en action…”

March editorial “Charity in action…”

We read in the Gospel according to Saint Luke: “Be merciful as your Father is merciful” (6,36). Saint Thérèse understood this well. On the little path of trust and abandon that she chose to take, she allowed herself to be pruned by the merciful Love of the Father's heart. The season of Lent invites us to taste […]

February 23, 2023

Le père Olivier Ruffray nommé vicaire général du diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux

Father Olivier Ruffray appointed vicar general of the diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux

PRESS RELEASE FROM MONSEIGNEUR JACQUES HABERT BISHOP OF BAYEUX AND LISIEUX On this February 1, 2023, Monsignor Jacques HABERT appoints, as vicar general of the diocese of Bayeux, Father Olivier RUFFRAY. This appointment takes effect today. Father Olivier RUFFRAY had been rector of the sanctuary of Lisieux since October 2013. Until the appointment of a new […]

February 2, 2023

Édito de février “Ne s’attacher à rien…”

February editorial “Be attached to nothing…”

February 21, 1888 at Les Buissonnets. "Theresita", (this is how she signs the letter to her sister Marie at the Carmel), shares the joy that their father gave her: "My dear little Marie, on Ash Wednesday dad gave me a gift […] a lovely, curly-haired little Lamb” (LT 42). There […]

Published January 26 2023

Édito de janvier “Par la confiance et l’amour…”

January editorial “Through trust and love…”

So ends Story of a Soul. These last words of Saint Thérèse, in her autobiography, accompany in Lisieux this year 2023 which marks a double Jubilee: the 150th anniversary of the birth of Thérèse Martin in Alençon, on January 2, 1873; the 100th anniversary of the beatification of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus of […]

Published January 10 2023

2023 Jubilé de la naissance et de la Béatification de sainte Thérèse

2023 Jubilee of the birth and Beatification of Saint Thérèse

Consult the jubilee process booklet by clicking on your language: French English Spanish Italian German Portuguese Dutch Polish Calendar of the Jubilee Year of Saint Teresa CLICK HERE to download the program for the year in PDF! Monday January 2, 2023: 150th anniversary of the birth of Thérèse 14:30 p.m.: Conference “Itinerary of a life […]

December 2, 2022

Édito de décembre “Le jouet de l’Enfant Divin…”

December editorial “The toy of the Divine Child…”

On this night of light when Jesus had just been born, on returning from midnight mass, Thérèse was delighted to discover her parcels in the fireplace at Les Buissonnets. She is 13 years old, almost 14, in a week! Will she have toys?.. Other gifts?.. The party seems to be ruined when her dad Louis advances […]

December 2, 2022