On Sept. 30 a special ceremony, the Transit of St. Thérèse, will be held followed by the Vigil Mass for the Feast of St. Thérèse. The ceremony, instituted in 2008 by then pastor Fr. Luis Gerardo Belmonte-Luna, OCD, narrates the saint’s last conversations before her death. The 24-year-old Carmelite nun invites us to contemplate her encounter with the Lord as she said: “I am not dying; I am entering to a new life.”