Now, as for my name, Little Flower. You may be wondering about it, or maybe not. Little Flower was the nickname for my confirmation saint, St. Therese of Lisieux, who I must say, is an extremely awesome role model! Her mother died when she was four, and several years later one of her closest sisters left to enter a Carmelite order. A few months after that she got very sick and almost died, but was cured by the intercession of the Blessed Mother! As a child she was very emotional and selfish, but at age fourteen she had a conversion and decided to enter the Carmelite convent and give her life to Jesus. When the Mother Superior would not let Therese join because she was so young, Therese went to the bishop, and he refused to give her permission. So young Therese went to the Pope! A short time later she was granted permission to enter the Carmelite convent. While at the convent she had a rough time. Shortly after she joined her father suffered several strokes and she also went through a period where she stated about her prayer life, "Jesus isn't doing much to keep the conversation going." As a nun, Therese knew that she couldn't do great deeds for God, so she made little sacrifices every day, offering them up and striving to achieve holiness calling her daily sacrifices her "little way" to Jesus. She had dreams of becoming a missionary, but those were to remain only dreams, as it was discovered that Therese had tuberculosis. In the last years of her life, she wrote her autobiography at the request of a superior which was published posthumously (a word here meaning published or printed after the author's death) and called "The Story of a Soul". After suffering for many years, Therese died at age 24. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI twenty-eight years after her death. And in 1997 she was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II. There is not much else to why I chose the name "Little Flower". If you wish to read deeper into it, you may but be warned. I am not peacefully beautiful like a flower. I do not sit idly by while life goes on around me. Like a flower, I have deep roots and I cannot be easily moved to a permanent location. Like a flower, I am always fighting for the best spot in the meadow, and like a flower, I am surrounded by beautiful flowers. I am also like a flower or any logical plant, because I try my best to turn and face the Son and live in the light.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant- Edgar Allen Poe
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
What's with the name? (Part Duex!)
Now, as for my name, Little Flower. You may be wondering about it, or maybe not. Little Flower was the nickname for my confirmation saint, St. Therese of Lisieux, who I must say, is an extremely awesome role model! Her mother died when she was four, and several years later one of her closest sisters left to enter a Carmelite order. A few months after that she got very sick and almost died, but was cured by the intercession of the Blessed Mother! As a child she was very emotional and selfish, but at age fourteen she had a conversion and decided to enter the Carmelite convent and give her life to Jesus. When the Mother Superior would not let Therese join because she was so young, Therese went to the bishop, and he refused to give her permission. So young Therese went to the Pope! A short time later she was granted permission to enter the Carmelite convent. While at the convent she had a rough time. Shortly after she joined her father suffered several strokes and she also went through a period where she stated about her prayer life, "Jesus isn't doing much to keep the conversation going." As a nun, Therese knew that she couldn't do great deeds for God, so she made little sacrifices every day, offering them up and striving to achieve holiness calling her daily sacrifices her "little way" to Jesus. She had dreams of becoming a missionary, but those were to remain only dreams, as it was discovered that Therese had tuberculosis. In the last years of her life, she wrote her autobiography at the request of a superior which was published posthumously (a word here meaning published or printed after the author's death) and called "The Story of a Soul". After suffering for many years, Therese died at age 24. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI twenty-eight years after her death. And in 1997 she was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II. There is not much else to why I chose the name "Little Flower". If you wish to read deeper into it, you may but be warned. I am not peacefully beautiful like a flower. I do not sit idly by while life goes on around me. Like a flower, I have deep roots and I cannot be easily moved to a permanent location. Like a flower, I am always fighting for the best spot in the meadow, and like a flower, I am surrounded by beautiful flowers. I am also like a flower or any logical plant, because I try my best to turn and face the Son and live in the light.
Monday, May 9, 2011
What's with the name? (Part Un!)
I thought I would give an explanation to any of you curious people out there who are wondering about my name and the name of the blog.
In my first post I explained why my blog was called "Seemingly Irrelevant", but not why my blogspot is located at competelyrelevant. Well, I'm here to tell you. When starting my blog I knew it would be irrelevant or as the Chinese would say: 形容词, so I decided to name it accordingly. Recently I have been addicted to meaningful quotes and when I found one by Edgar Allen Poe that gave me a reason to start my blog, I decided to name it after his brilliant quote. Unfortunately, a soul named Josh had already taken the seeminglyrelevant blogspot so I named mine completelyrelevant because that was what my blog was despite what it seemed. Before my blog was created, I decided to check out Josh’s to see what his seemingly relevant blog had amounted to. I was dismayed to see he had only posted once, in 2005, promising “Rantings and ravings of mad men to follow...” So Josh, one day when you get around to posting your rantings and ravings I will be there. I am following you, waiting for you to live up to an extremely inspirational quote or at least my expectations. Please follow Josh, and let him know that we here at his sister blog completelyrelevant.blogspot.com are following him, waiting for him to live up to a quote, or at least our expectations of a seeminly irrelevant blog.
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