{"id":7169,"date":"2017-04-22T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2020-06-28T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:10:27","slug":"from-the-mail-a-certain-rose-petal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/from-the-mail-a-certain-rose-petal\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Mail (Archives): A Certain Rose Petal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16131\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Duhovi-2018-450x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Duhovi-2018-450x245.jpg 450w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Duhovi-2018-450x245-255x139.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36419\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/logoinside2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/logoinside2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/logoinside2-255x51.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7175 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img069.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"442\" \/>We enjoy hearing from our viewers &#8212; twenty years now &#8212; and constantly are elevated by the way God operates in everyone&#8217;s lives, when we let God operate, and when we notice what He has done and is doing, with thanksgiving.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>The more we realize, the more we experience wonders. It&#8217;s called living in faith instead &#8220;in the world.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don&#8217;t worry if the worldly look down a collective nose at you, even the worldly who are in the Church:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>God is hidden until we uncover Him. It&#8217;s the nature of His ultimate humility.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>That humility responds to the humility in all of us.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How about a candle that melts into a certain form at a certain moment?<\/p>\n<p>Or a light form in the center aisle of a church?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5776 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/loispica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>He operates through His saints.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>There was the account of Arceli Liceralde of Gold River, California, who told us of a happening, as she perceived it, several years ago.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;I am a member of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites since 2014 and I love the Carmelite saints, especially Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux,&#8221; she informed us.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;In October of 2014,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">my daughters and I went to France and had a Mass in the basilica of Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se. I can&#8217;t express the joy. It was a dream come true. After work, I go to Mass to Saint Ignatius Church and for many months, I constantly felt the presence of Saint\u00a0Th\u00e9r\u00e8se while walking to the church. I carry the book by Saint\u00a0Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, <em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/gi-336.htm\">The Story of a Soul<\/a><\/em>, wherever I go.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14390 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2293-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2293-min.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2293-min-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2293-min-255x191.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/span><\/span>&#8220;Something very beautiful and miraculous happened on December 30, 2016,&#8221; Arceli informs us.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;I was so tired that evening after a stressful week&#8217;s work and having stayed up late packing my bags, because we planned to celebrate New Year&#8217;s Day in San Francisco. I just wanted to go to bed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;After taking out the comforter<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">and blanket, I saw twenty or more yellow things, all the same size, on my bed and thought they were leaves [that somehow got there].<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;I just ignored them and went to sleep.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;I can&#8217;t remember the exact date, but maybe a few days after returning from San Francisco, I found a yellow rose petal on my bed and was surprised to find two more rose petals on the carpet!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;I asked my two daughters, who live with me, if they had put them there but they told me they never did. A week before it happened, my daughter, whose name is also Theresa, told me that she dreamed of Saint\u00a0Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and I told her to ask for intercession.\u00a0Now when I found that these are roses from Heaven, I could not put into words how I felt &#8212; amazed, overwhelmed, so grateful, so blessed and loved by Saint\u00a0Th\u00e9r\u00e8se. What did I do to deserve this mysterious experience and so great a Grace from Heaven?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0Saint\u00a0Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and so many saints are faithful to those who have a devotion to them!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;It dawned on me<\/span> that the twenty or more yellow things were also rose petals. I started looking for them, turning my bed upside-down, but [I had forgotten about them] and they had just disappeared. They were very fragile and the closest I can compare it to is the wings of a butterfly.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Often &#8212; in signs from Heaven &#8212; there is a extra special twist.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/gi-336.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.org\/GI-336-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span>In this case,<\/span> for example (and yes, we also say purportedly): it turned out that Arceli&#8217;s family has a special fondness for yellow flowers and when her father died, all the roses at his wake were yellow.\u00a0Was\u00a0<em>he<\/em> also sending love?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;Several months have passed since this shower of roses happened, and yet the memory it has left in my soul has lost nothing of its freshness and heavenly charms. 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