Shirt of Flame: A Year with St. Therese of Lisieux (2011)

by Heather King

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If you have not read Heather King before, her honesty may shock you. In this remarkable memoir, you will see how a convert with a checkered past spends a year reflecting upon Saint Therese of Lisieux - and discovers the radical faith, true love, and abundant life of a cloistered 19th-century French nun. The provocative title is inspired by a portion of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets that says we all choose to live consumed by either fire or fire.… (more)

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Therese's family was deeply religious—so religious, in fact, that her father Lois Martin, thirty-five at the time of his wedding, had initially proposed a celibate marriage.

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Religion isn't something we tack on to life like a crumbling doily, in other words: religion suffuse life, drives life, sets life on fire. (p. 75)

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If you have not read Heather King before, her honesty may shock you. In this remarkable memoir, you will see how a convert with a checkered past spends a year reflecting upon Saint Therese of Lisieux - and discovers the radical faith, true love, and abundant life of a cloistered 19th-century French nun. The provocative title is inspired by a portion of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets that says we all choose to live consumed by either fire or fire.

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