On mother’s day of this year (2006), we took my son to Villanova University to receive an academic award. It was rather cold that day. We got lost on our way back to the car. Since school was already out for the summer there where very few people to be found. We eventually ran into a young man loading up his car. We asked him for directions. The directions he gave us seemed reasonable, but after a minute or two I thought we where on our way to another dead end. Just to be sure we kept on going. Eventually we got to a break in the building and we could turn towards the road. Just as we turned we ran into at least a half dozen large rose bushes. They where all covered with beautiful pink roses. It was kind of unusual to see roses in doing so well in such cold weather. I can only guess that they where doing okay because the spot got a lot of sun and all of the bushes where up against the large stone building of the campus. Oddly enough, the roses looked exactly like the ones pictured on the front of the book I had just finished reading a couple of days earlier.
The book is called Shower of Heavenly Roses – Stories of the intercession of St. Therese of Lisieux by Elizabeth Ficocelli. The book is about 200 pages of wonderful stories. There must be over 50 stories about how praying to St Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower, had helped people. The stories are grouped into 6 chapters dealing with topics including healing, peace, love and more. I was very moved by many of the stories. The book will not help you gain much insight into how, at 9 years old, Therese knew she wanted to become a Carmelite nun, but you will be uplifted by the tremendous amount of love in the stories. If you will read the book you will understand why I mentioned the story about the flowers at Villanova in the beginning of this post.
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