"To return to Thérèse’s case, it is a fact that when people stand in the presence of her mortal remains or have some contact with her poor relics, as with petals from an unpetalled rose, God, who received through her humanity so many signs of love, is pleased in turn to manifest his love through her bodily remains.
From these poor signs, God’s salvific power reveals and unfolds itself. To become convinced it is enough to read the many volumes recounting favors and cures obtained through contact with Thérèse’s relics, as well as the abundant correspondence that arrives daily in Lisieux.
And who can name all those who cherish in their wallets or among their personal papers an image bearing the words “cloth touched to the relics of the Saint?” Truly we find ourselves in another logic, arising from the words of Jesus: “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike” (Lk 10:21)".
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