This beautiful stained glass window of the Child Jesus cannot be found by the average visitor to the Basilica today. This is a relic of our past which currently resides in storage.

In her writings, St. Thérèse used the rose to signify both love and sacrifice. This mosaic, then, is uniquely suited to both the Easter season and the Basilica itself.

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower is entering the final phases of the Master Plan project that is underway for the restoration, renovation, and repairs needed to the Basilica complex.

It’s easy to forget about the beauty and grandeur of the Basilica when you’re a parishioner. Things like stained glass, relics, and hand carved altar pieces become so much a part of your experience that it rarely strikes you that these are not in most churches.

Read Fr. Bonaventure’s meditation upon the hymn Death on a Cross. At best you might call it a very free translation. Maybe after reading the following, and then returning to the original in your Bible, you can meditate on the passage for yourself.

Chanting the Flos Carmeli, the Discalced Carmelite Fathers of the Province of St. Thérèse closed their XXXI Provincial Chapter meeting encouraged by the newly-elected Provincial, Fr. Luis Castañeda, OCD, “to take the best from the past and to build and live our present and future with creativity.”