One of the Mothers, having come to visit her, did her a trifling service.  “How happy I should be,” thought the Mother, “if this Angel would only say:  ‘I will repay you in Heaven!’ At that instant Soeur Therese, turning to her, said:  “Mother, I will repay you in Heaven!”

But more surprising than all, was her consciousness of the mission for which Our Lord had destined her.  The veil which hides the future seemed lifted, and more than once she revealed to us its secrets, in prophecies which have already been realised.

“I have never given the Good God aught but love; it is with Love He will repay.

AFTER MY DEATH I WILL LET FALL A SHOWER OF ROSES.”

At another time she interrupted a Sister, who was speaking to her of the happiness of Heaven, by the sublime words:  “It is not that which attracts me.”

“And what attracts you?” asked the other.  “Oh! it is Love!  To love, to be beloved, and to return to earth to win love for our Love!"

One evening, she welcomed Mother Agnes of Jesus with an extraordinary expression of joy:  “Mother!” she said, “some notes from a concert far away have just reached my ears, and have made me think that soon I shall be listening to the wondrous melodies of Paradise.  The thought, however, gave me but a moment’s joy—­one hope alone makes my heart beat fast:  the Love that I shall receive and the Love I shall be able to give!

“I feel that my mission is soon to begin—­my mission to make others love God as I love Him . . . to each souls my little way . . .

I WILL SPEND MY HEAVEN IN DOING GOOD UPON EARTH.

Nor is this impossible, since from the very heart of the Beatific Vision, the Angels keep watch over us.  No, there can be no rest for me until the end of the world.  But when the Angel shall have said:  ‘Time is no more!’ then I shall rest, then I shall be able to rejoice, because the number of the elect will be complete.”

“And what is this little way that you would teach to souls?”

“IT IS THE WAY OF SPIRITUAL CHILDHOOD, THE WAY OF TRUST AND ABSOLUTE SELF-SURRENDER.

I want to point out to them the means that I have always found so perfectly successful, to tell them that there is but one thing to do here below:  we must offer Jesus the flowers of little sacrifices and win Him by a caress.  That is how I have won Him, and that is why I shall be made so welcome.”

“Should I guide you wrongly by my little way of love,” she said to a novice, “do not fear that I shall allow you to continue therein; I should soon come back to the earth, and tell you to take another road.  If I do not return, then believe in the truth of these my words:  We can never have too much confidence in the Good God, He is so mighty, so merciful.  As we hope in Him so shall we receive.”

On the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a novice said to her:  “I think that if you were to die to-morrow, after Holy Communion, I should be quite consoled—­it would be such a beautiful death!” Therese answered quickly:  “Die after Holy Communion!  Upon a great feast!  Nay, not so. In my ‘little way’ everything is most ordinary; all that I do, little souls must be able to do likewise."