Day 5 — Going about doing good

Meditation

Saint Therese said: «To pass through the Earth doing good.» Her life in Carmel was a chain of small services, smiles, hidden sacrifices, offered for the salvation of souls. She was patroness of missions without ever having left her convent, because her love embraced the whole world.

Prayer of the Day

Little Flower of Jesus! By the great effort you put into passing through the Earth doing good and spreading love and hope in hearts, grant that I too may spend my life sowing kindness to receive the sure reward of a hundredfold. Amen.

Prayer for all days

Saint Therese! I come to your feet full of confidence to ask for favors. The cross of life weighs heavily upon me, and I find nothing but thorns among its branches. Little Flower of Jesus! Send upon my soul a shower of flowers of grace and virtue so that I may climb the Calvary of life intoxicated by your perfumes. Send me a smile from your heavenly lips and a glance from your beautiful eyes. My God! Through the intercession of Saint Therese, give me strength to fulfill my duty exactly and grant me the grace I ask in this novena. Amen.

Final Prayer

O unique little saint! Teach us the «little way» of your spiritual childhood. My glorious little saint! I confidently hope that you will obtain from God the special grace I ask in this novena. I, in turn, promise to imitate, with all my strength, your heroic examples. Meanwhile, like you, O Little Flower of Jesus, I wish to scatter on earth the flowers of my affection at the feet of the Love of Loves.