Collected Letters of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

By Saint Thérèse of Lisieux  Edited by Abbé André Combes | Translated by F. J. Sheed In every age, God sends saints to renew his Church. For the nineteenth century, that age of sweeping intellectual bewilderment, surely the obvious choice would have been another Angelic Doctor, a great mind to correct error and clear up confusion. Instead, the selection was Thérèse of Lisieux, a precocious, provincial young Frenchwoman. Neither lofty philosophy nor intricate mysticism did she wield as the instrument of renewal, but the seemingly inauspicious “Little Way.” “The smallest actions done for love,” she wrote, “are the actions which win God’s heart.” The difficulties of the Christian life are undeniable, yet even the most ordinary of souls can surmount them by following this Little Way.  Edited by Abbé André Combes, translated by F. J. Sheed, and printed exactly as they were originally written, the Collected Letters of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux contains everything in the way of her corresponde