During our Kinder Religion session today, using Who Am I?, we were talking about how different people respond differently to God's call to love. Some choose to get married and raise families, while others choose not to get married, and show their love in some other ways.
Some men become priests and religious brothers, women become nuns. The priests and religious show their love for God's people by praying for them, offering up penance, sacrifices and good works and teaching us how to live according to God's laws so we can get to heaven one day.
Some nuns teach in schools, others tend to the poor and the aged, and others care for and nurse the sick. To this, Curlytop (who turns 5 in 5 weeks, pictured above as St Therese) promptly and animatedly replied: "Just like St Therese! She was a doctor of the church!" ♥♥♥
NB: Along with St Thomas Aquinas, St Gregory the Great, St Anthony of Padua, St Alphonsus Ligouri, St Catherine of Sienna and many others, St Therese of Lisieux is one of the 33 officially recognized Doctors of the Church. They are a group of saints whose writings and theological preachings are said to be useful to Christians "in any age of the Church."
