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Media coverage in the lead-up to the visit of the relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Standpoint
Relics of Thérèse
Despatches: Lisieux, France
September 09
BBC Radio 4
Sunday Worship
The Little Flower of Jesus
6 Sept 09
A service from the church of Sacred Heart and St Theresa, Coleshill, Birmingham.
BBC Bristol
Ancient Bones Brought to the West
3 Sept 09
The Independent on Sunday
Review section
The magical mystical tour: Why are the relics of St Thérèse such a holy hit?
23 Aug 09
Saint Thérèse, or what's left of her, is about to arrive in Britain for the first time – but is she a holy Roman circus act or an icon for our times? Joanna Moorhead reveals how a long-dead young nun from northern France became a 21st-century superstar.
BBC Radio 2
Good Morning Sunday
Boyce and Stanley: interview on St Thérèse of Lisieux
16 Aug 09
BBC Radio 4
The Sunday Programme
Package direct from Lisieux with Peter Stanford
2 August 09
BBC Radio 4
You and Yours
St Thérèse of Lisieux: Mgr Keith Barltrop
31 July 09
National Co-ordinator of the relics' visit, Mgr Keith Barltrop, on 'You and Yours'.
The Independent
St Therese of Lisieux: Bigger than the Pope
9 July 09
BBC Radio 4
PM Programme
Interview with Canon John Udris
5 July 09
The Guardian
Saint who loved sinners to visit Wormwood Scrubs inmates
5 July 09
Relics’ visit affirms evangelisation and sanctity of life
26 Sept 08
In an interview with The Catholic Herald, Bishop Malcolm McMahon (Nottingham), who is Chair of the Bishops’ Conference Department for Evangelisation and Catechesis and one of the bishop patrons of the visit of the relics, explains why the bishops have initiated this event.
"The focus of the visit is not so much St Thérèse herself, but Jesus Christ; the relics serve to signpost people to the story of how one person’s life was transformed through an encounter with Jesus – His unconditional love and mercy. In the footsteps of St. Thérèse, all of our lives can be transformed if we so desire it and allow Jesus to work within us. As such, the Bishops’ vision was that the relics’ tour of England and Wales will serve to provide many opportunities for Spirit-filled encounters and for evangelisation – explicit proclamation of the Good News of Jesus Christ."
Bishop Malcolm McMahon: Relics’ visit affirms evangelisation and sanctity of life (pdf)
© The Catholic Herald, September 2008. Used with permission.
'Through the visible to the invisible’
27 Sept 08
Mgr Keith Barltrop, Chairman of the national organising group for the visit of the relics of St Thérèse to England and Wales, wrote an article in The Tablet on the visit.
"Pilgrimage is a big draw for people today, and this is a kind of pilgrimage in reverse, whereby a holy person comes to us rather than we to them. That is why the visit of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux to England and Wales next year has been conceived as an opportunity to reach out to spiritual seekers of all faiths or none, who may actually be far more open to such things than we realise."
Mgr Keith Baltrop: 'Through the visible to the invisible’ (pdf)
© The Tablet, September 2008. Used with permission.
Relics of St. Thérèse on six-million-mile space flight
21 Nov 08
The Carmelite community of New Caney, Texas has used its close links with a NASA astronaut to send a relic of St. Thérèse millions of miles into space.
The community entrusted the relic to Colonel Ron Garan, who was on the 31 May - 14 June Discovery shuttle mission.
According to the Zenit news agency, the relic travelled around the earth for 14 days at 17,057 miles an hour!