A Little Littany in Honour of Saint Theresa of Lisieux

Teach us Little Flower to love as you did love in life the God of Love
Teach us we pray through the Holy Name of Jesus
Show us the path to God through Mary's tender heart
Pray take out hand and be our guide

Teach us Little Flower to walk our way with childlike faith in God's good promise
Teach us we pray through the Holy Name of Jesus
Show us in times of doubt the certainty of God's abiding love
Pray take our hand and be our guide

Teach us Little Flower to accept God's Holy will with gentle patience
Teach us we pray through the Holy Name of Jesus
Show us the way to trust and self-surrender
Pray take our hand and be our guide

Teach us Little Flower the beauty of Holy innocence in this our time
Teach us we pray through the Holy Name of Jesus
Show us the way to pray in love for this world
Pray take our hand and be our guide

Teach us Little Flower to bear with joy and hope our trials and pain
Teach us we pray through the Holy Name of Jesus
Show us the way of doing good on earth that we may do good in Heaven
Pray take our hand and be our guide

Teach us Little Flower to refuse nothing to God
Teach us we pray through the Holy Name of Jesus
Show us the way the truth and the light
Pray take our hand and be our guide

Amen

A Prayer of Intercession

Saint Theresas of the Child Jesus pray for us
and all we are and all we are to be
that through your holy intercession and heroic virtues
we may each attain to that heavenly garden of roses
the paradise of God's true promise.
In humble duty do we offer this litany of praise
to the glory of out loving Father
who with Jesus the Lamb of our redemption
and the Spirit our constant strength
reigns one God in that same most blest garden
with all His Angels and Saints
now and for everlasting

Amen

© Richard T Strudwick 1997