St. Thérèse of Lisieux, known as “The Little Flower of Jesus,” is one of the most beloved saints in the Catholic Church.

The St. Thérèse Novena is a beautiful nine-day prayer asking for her intercession. It’s especially popular because of her promise:

“I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses.” 🌹

Many who pray this novena look for a sign — often a rose, real or symbolic — as reassurance that St. Thérèse has heard and is praying with them.

🌹 About the St. Thérèse Novena:

  • Prayed over 9 consecutive days
  • Focuses on:
    • Trusting God with childlike simplicity
    • Loving in small, everyday acts
    • Abandonment to God’s will
  • Often includes:
    • The St. Thérèse prayer (asking for a rose as a sign)
    • The Glory Be and Our Father
    • Closing prayer expressing trust in God’s plan

✨ Typical intention:

For help with special requests: health, family, faith, or discernment

To ask St. Thérèse to “pick a rose” for you from the heavenly garden and send it as a sign of her intercession

The Little Flower’s Path of Trust and Love

“I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses.”
– St. Thérèse of Lisieux

🙏 How to pray this novena:

  • Pray each day for nine consecutive days.
  • Reflect on St. Thérèse’s “Little Way”: doing small things with great love.
  • End each day asking her to send you a “rose” as a sign of her intercession.

🌹 Daily Prayer (repeat for 9 days)

O St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus,
you promised to spend your heaven doing good on earth.
With confidence, I come before you asking for your prayers.
Intercede for me in my special intention:
(mention your request here)

Little Flower, help me to trust in God’s love as you did.
Teach me your “Little Way” of humility and simplicity.
Grant me the grace to accept God’s will with joy and to do small things with great love.

St. Thérèse, please pick for me a rose from the heavenly garden
and send it as a sign of your prayerful presence.

Amen.

(Then pray):

  • Our Father
  • Hail Mary
  • Glory Be

✨ Day-by-day special reflections / intentions:

📿 Day 1

Reflection: Trusting God’s plan, even when it is hidden from us.
Intention: Lord, increase my trust in Your loving providence.

🌸 Day 2

Reflection: Loving others in small, everyday acts of kindness.
Intention: Teach me to see You, Lord, in the people around me.

🌿 Day 3

Reflection: Finding holiness in ordinary life, as St. Thérèse did.
Intention: Help me offer my daily work and joys to You.

🕊 Day 4

Reflection: Embracing humility and recognizing our need for God.
Intention: Free me from pride and fill me with a humble heart.

🌹 Day 5

Reflection: Surrendering our deepest fears and burdens to God.
Intention: Grant me the grace to let go and trust completely.

✨ Day 6

Reflection: Finding joy in suffering by uniting it to Christ’s love.
Intention: Help me bear my struggles patiently and with hope.

🙏 Day 7

Reflection: Loving God with a childlike heart, simple and sincere.
Intention: Deepen my love for You, Lord, in small and quiet ways.

🕯 Day 8

Reflection: Offering our prayers and sacrifices for others.
Intention: Make my heart generous in praying for the needs of others.

🌼 Day 9

Reflection: Saying “yes” to God’s will, as Thérèse did until the end.
Intention: Lord, give me strength to trust You completely, whatever may come.

🌹 Closing prayer (on the final day):

St. Thérèse, Little Flower,
you lived your life in quiet trust and love.
Thank you for walking beside me during these nine days.
Continue to shower roses from heaven
and help me follow your “Little Way” —
to love deeply, trust boldly, and serve humbly.

Amen.