Rather than a model, this young woman’s journey refers, beyond belief and dogma, to this journey to the confines of our singularity towards the other.
To read Thérèse is to listen to a being who abandons himself to destitution and allows himself to be tossed towards that holiness which makes the being porous to the world. Life in community, the failures of faith, the disease that gnaws: she goes through the trials like a little knight who arms himself from childhood and sticks to his “little way” to cross the unpredictable reliefs of the inner kingdom.
The quiet radicalism of her confidence is almost frightening; she looks like nothing, but she valiantly walks this frontier where man comes closest to human beings and compassion.
