{"id":147967,"date":"2024-10-01T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=147967"},"modified":"2024-11-17T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T03:18:50","slug":"a-vote-for-therese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/a-vote-for-therese\/","title":{"rendered":"A vote for Th\u00e9r\u00e8se"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Friends in Christ,<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Tis the season of elections here in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years it has become a season when deep divides in opinions and beliefs have bubbled to the surface and strained friendships and family ties if not whole communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even in the best of times, democracy can be a messy affair in the public arena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But now, its acidy elements have managed to seep into and corrode personal relations in a way that shows the devil is up to his tricks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good news is that politics need not dominate our lives. We were created for better things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A saint who understood this truth in a tender way was St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux, whose feast day the Church celebrates on October 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in a country that had its own share of political strife, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se didn\u2019t find solace in public affairs but rather in her relationship with Jesus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a famous passage in her autobiography, she wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<em>Jesus, my love! I\u2019ve found my vocation, and my vocation is love. &#8230; To be nothing else than love, deep down in the heart of Mother Church; that\u2019s to be everything at once.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s a vocation we can all follow. It would certainly keep our vision lifted above the 24\/7 news cycles and endless social-media scrolls that vie for our attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This vocation to love also reminds us of our dignity as children of God. For we weren\u2019t created to be political gladiators but to reflect the love that the Almighty has for all of us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To help focus on Th\u00e9r\u00e8se\u2019s wisdom, it might be helpful to pray along with our Retreat Guide on her \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/love-one-another-a-retreat-guide-on-st-thereses-little-way-of-charity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/rcspirituality.org\/retreat_guide\/love-one-another-a-retreat-guide-on-st-thereses-little-way-of-charity\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1726760299142000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0FNFZ_1fhALWPM-BhrSPEA\">little way,<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/love-one-another-a-retreat-guide-on-st-thereses-little-way-of-charity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/rcspirituality.org\/retreat_guide\/love-one-another-a-retreat-guide-on-st-thereses-little-way-of-charity\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1726760299142000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0FNFZ_1fhALWPM-BhrSPEA\"><em>Love One Another: A Retreat Guide on her Little Way of Charity<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It could help direct our energies in a healthy and sanctifying way. And shift our gaze away from the election cycle and toward eternity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Christ,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Father Edward McIlmail, LC<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/ask-a-priest\/\">Ask a Priest<\/a> contributor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends in Christ, \u2018Tis the season of elections here in the U.S. In recent years it has become a season when deep divides in opinions and beliefs have bubbled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":157279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6616],"tags":[5664,3062],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-147967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-message","tag-election","tag-love"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of LisieuxA vote for Th\u00e9r\u00e8se - Regnum Christi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux&#039;s &#039;little way&#039; of love and simplicity offers guidance in navigating political tensions. 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He was an assistant publisher of the National Catholic Register and Faith &amp; Family magazine and an editor of the Zenit news agency\u2019s English edition. He has written for\u00a0SpiritualDirection.com\u00a0and\u00a0ePriest. Fr. McIlmail also worked in spiritual retreats in the Northeast, New England, the Midwest, and the South\u00a0and assisted with mission work in Mexico. Born in Philadelphia, he worked in journalism and was active in the pro-life movement before entering the novitiate of the Legion of Christ in 1992. His contributions to RCSpirituality include responding to\u00a0Ask A Priest\u00a0questions and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/emcilmail\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147967"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=147967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}