'Thou couldst not stoop lower to teach me humility' — her prayer at the tabernacle, asking to be sent 'some humiliations each time that I shall attempt to put myself above others'.
Veiled in the white Host, O my Well-beloved, how meek and humble of heart dost Thou show Thyself to me! Thou couldst not stoop lower to teach me humility, and I, to respond to Thy love, desire to put myself in the lowest place and share Thy humiliations, that I may have part with Thee in the kingdom of heaven. I beseech Thee, my Jesus, to send me some humiliations each time that I shall attempt to put myself above others.
Before the tabernacle; after Holy Communion; on 1 October.
Thérèse saw in the Host the last word of the humility of God: the Word made flesh, and then the flesh made bread, hidden under a white veil that anyone may handle. Her answer was to ask for the lowest place, and — a petition few would dare — for humiliations whenever she reached for a higher one. It is the Little Way at the tabernacle.
The text is that printed in Blessed Be God (1925) among the prayers for a visit to the Blessed Sacrament.
