The following news item is, as my 15 year old son would say, "well cool":
"I have the vocation of an apostle. I would like to travel over the whole earth to preach your name and to plant your glorious cross on infidel soil. But oh, my beloved, one mission would not be enough for me, I would want to preach the Gospel on all five continents simultaneously and even to the most remote isles. I would be a missionary, not for a few years but from the beginning of creation until the consummation of the ages." (St. Therese of Lisieux -"the little flower")
Thanks to the Carmelite community at New Caney, Texas this aspiration of St. Therese has now been fulfilled.
The sisters are frequently visited by Colonel Ron Garan, commander of the Space Shuttle mission of May 31st - June 14th. Shortly before that mission blasted off the Colonel visited the Carmel to ask the sisters for their prayers. As a thank you he told the sisters that he could take one small item with him into space. So the sisters gave him a small relic of the Saint.
So the Saint, Patron of the Missions has now travelled 5, 735, 643 miles around the earth for 14 daays, at an average speed of 17,000 miles an hour. While the beloved saint was on her travels the community prayed for the world.
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