The Little Way of Lent: Meditations in the Spirit of St. Therese of Lisieux

Lent is not meant to foster morbid gloominess and debilitating self-loathing, but to thrust us into the heart of Divine love.—From the Introduction

While reading the autobiography of St. Therese, Fr. Caster had an 'ah ha' moment that transformed his experience of Lent from one of narrow concern over what to give up to one of joyful freedom to enter into the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ. "What struck me," he says, "was her insistence on the way we do things for God and not the things we do for him. It wasn't about what I was offering; it was about why." The daily Lenten meditations in this book—all colored by St. Therese's Little Way of Spiritual Childhood—will transform you, too, helping you focus not so much on what you have done to offend God, but on what he has done to redeem you.

FATHER GARY CASTER, Ph. L., a priest of the Diocese of Peoria, is the Catholic Chaplain at Williams College. He leads retreats and parish missions, has written and produced shows for EWTN and been a contributor to Magnificat magazine. He is the author of Mary in her own words: The Mother of God in Scripture and a contributor to Praying with St. Paul: Daily Reflections on the Letters of the Apostle Paul. His thesis for a Master of Arts in Church History from Mt. St. Mary’s University was on St. Therese of Lisieux.