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By Valerie Scadden
Rappahannock News Writer
On Sunday, Sept. 17, about 15 young ladies and girls established the "Daughters of the Little Flower" at St. Peter's Mission in Washington.
The society was established for purposes of spirituality, devotion, apostolic action and recreation. A main spiritual goal is imitate Mother Teresa's life of virtue (which was inspired by St. Therese of Liseaux, affectionately called the "Little Flower") and to pray for her canonization.
Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, was the foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, an order of nuns dedicated to work among the "poorest of the poor." St. Therese was a Carmelite nun who died in 1897 at the age of 24.
She is the Church's patroness of missionaries because of her prayers for priests, especially those who were missionaries. She is one of the most beloved modem saints.
The organizing president of the group is parishioner Alexandria Scadden, age 11, under the guidance of moderator Mrs. Valerie Scadden. During the meeting, the girls tentatively identified several specific goals: monthly confession, first Friday devotions followed by a social; preparing the altar linens for Mass; bake sales to raise money for the missions; exercises of virtue; visiting the sick of the parish; planning devotions to celebrate the liturgical year; and, organizing picnics.
St. Therese became a saint by being "ordinary." She herself describes her method of the spiritual life as the "Little Way." Her "Little Way" had three great points.
The first point is that sanctity does not have to be in doing spectacular things as used in the way the world
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