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1 ST THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS 1 October 2025 - ST THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS VIRGIN AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH — Feast 🇫🇷 In France: SOLEMNITY Thérèse Martin was born at Alencon in 1873. At the age of fifteen she entered the Carmel at Lisieux. She practiced heroic humility, evangelical simplicity and trust in God, and taught the novices these virtues by word and example. She offered her life for the salvation of souls and the growth of the Church. She died September 30, 1897.

15 ST TERESA OF JESUS, OUR MOTHER 15 October 2025 - ST TERESA OF JESUS, OUR MOTHER VIRGIN AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH — SOLEMNITY Teresa was born at Avila in Spain in 1515. She entered the Carmelites and made great progress in the way of perfection and was granted mystical revelations. Wishing to share in the spiritual renewal of the Church of her time, she began to live her religious life more ardently and soon attracted many companions, to whom she was like a mother. She also helped in the reform of the friars, and in this had to endure great trials. She wrote books which are renowned for their depth of doctrine and which showed her own spiritual experiences. She died at Alba in 1582.

29 St. Henry de Ossó y Cervelló 29 October 2025 - St. Henry de Ossó y Cervelló Priest — Optional Memorial Henry was born at Vinebre, Catalonia, Spain, on the 16th October 1840 and was ordained priest on 21st September 1867. He was an apostle to young people in teaching them about their faith and inspired various movements for the teaching of the Gospel. As a spiritual director he was fascinated by St. Teresa of Jesus, the great teacher in the ways of prayer and Daughter of the Church. (She is better known in the English-speaking world as St. Teresa of Avila.) In the light of her teaching, he founded the Company of St. Teresa (1876) dedicated to educating women in the school of the Gospel and following the example of St. Teresa. He gave himself to preaching and the apostolate through the printing press. He underwent many severe trials and sufferings. He died at Gilet, Valencia, Spain, on the 27th of January, 1896.

30 Bl. Maria Teresa of St. Joseph (Tauscher) 30 October 2025 - Bl. Maria Teresa of St. Joseph (Tauscher) Virgin — Optional Memorial Anna Maria Tauscher was born in 1855 in Sandow, Brandenburg - now in Poland - of deeply religious Lutheran parents. She was brought up in this faith, but in 1888 she joined the Catholic Church and was expelled from her home and work. She found refuge in a religious institute, then in a family. Her journey of faith continued and, after reading the "Life" of Saint Thérèse of Jesus, she decided to dedicate herself to Carmel; but the Lord, through her, wanted to establish a new institute, attached to the Carmel of Thérèse, and so in 1891, in Berlin, the Congregation of the "Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus" was born. She devoted her life to caring for needy children and died in Sittard, Holland, in 1938.

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