With Empty Hands, Catholic Carmelite Book

The message of ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX

By Conrad De Meester
This is an entirely new edition and translation of Conrad de Meester's brilliant and moving persentation of the life, thought and spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux. The author has completely revised and amplified his previous book in the light of the new, throroughly annotated editions of her own works and the many recent works of research and commentary, which have led him to develop and change some of his interpretations of the saint's life and character.

Fr. de Meester asks why and how this young girl, who asked to be admitted to the Carmel of Lisieux and persevered in her vocation to a hidden life in an obscure corner of France, is not only loved and invoked by millions of people but has become a profound influence on theology, spirituality, and the missionary apostolate, culminating in her being a Doctor of the Church. He shows how the intuitions of her faith were achieved by growing from spiritual poverty to spiritual maturity through much suffering and in spite of many crises and reversals. This book reveals Therese as the saint of hope, whose constant watchword was 'My God, I love you!,' and as a revolutionary of love through whom God worked and works as a liberating force.

Conrad de Meester is a Belgian Discalced Carmelite who has made the interpretation and exposition of the life and thought of St. Therese his life's work. The first version of this book appeared in English in 1982 and has been unavailable for some years.

ICS Publications, Originally published 2002 by Burns and Oats, soft cover, 142 pp

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