Thérèse of Lisieux

You don't need a stage to do great things: what matters most in your life happens quietly, in small acts of love and faithfulness. That is exactly how Thérèse lives. At fifteen, after an audience with the Pope, she enters the Carmel and there discovers her "little way": holiness not through mighty deeds, but through the smallest steps taken with great love. Through the deep darkness of her final months she holds on to God. She dies at twenty-four behind convent walls; her notebooks are published as Story of a Soul and go around the world. Love, she writes, is her vocation, and the woman who never traveled becomes patroness of the world missions. And you: do you trust small things to be great?