"I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses."
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Chaplet composed by Desheng Chen
St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), known as the Little Flower, entered the Carmelite convent at age 15 and died at just 24 years old. Despite her short life, her spiritual writings—especially her autobiography "Story of a Soul"—have inspired millions with her "Little Way" of doing small things with great love.
Before her death, Therese promised: "I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses." Countless devotees have reported receiving roses as signs of her intercession—making her one of the most beloved intercessors in the Church.
This chaplet invites St. Therese to pick roses from the heavenly garden and send them as messages of God's love and answers to our prayers.
Using ordinary rosary beads
Make the Sign of the Cross, then pray:
O my God! Holy Trinity, I desire to love You and make You loved. I desire to accomplish perfectly Your will and reach the degree of glory You prepared me in Your kingdom. In other words, I wish to be a saint but feel my own powerlessness and ask You, O my God, to be Yourself my saintliness.
The Offering
Saint Therese, the Little Flower, please pick a rose from the Heavenly Garden and send it to me in a message of love. Ask God to grant me the favor I thee implore, and tell Him I will love Him more and more.
Saint Therese of Lisieux, Little Flower, I bind these blood red roses, snow white buds, and full blown roses with a petition and request that you would send it to me.
Our Father...
For an increase in virtues
For an increase in faith, hope, and charity; and that Saint Therese in a letter of love would send me a rose.
3 Hail Marys
Glory Be, then the prayer, then state your intention
Glory Be...
Saint Therese, the Little Flower, please pick a rose from the Heavenly Garden and send it to me in a message of love. Ask God to grant me the favor I thee implore, and tell Him I will love Him more and more.
[State your petition here]
Optional: Saint Therese, I present to your utmost kindness the petitions and requests of every brother and sister that has lived and will live. I also offer you, to aid, all my family and brethren that duty bid me pray.
With this, sweet Therese, I sign with greatest confidence my love, that you would send me a rose.
Saint Therese of Lisieux, Little Flower, I bind these blood red roses, snow white buds, and full blown roses with a petition and request that you would send it to me.
Before each decade
Glory Be...
Our Father...
The decade prayer
Saint Therese of Lisieux, Blessed Little Flower, look kindly upon us and kindly upon the face of Jesus Christ, your Well Beloved Spouse, and increase in us faith, hope, and charity, especially those in most need of your love. Graciously hear our prayers and answer our pleas, and teach us the way to Christ, everlasting and sweet.
On the large bead
Glory Be...
Saint Therese, the Little Flower, please pick a rose from the Heavenly Garden and send it to me in a message of love. Ask God to grant me the favor I thee implore, and tell Him I will love Him more and more.
Our Father...
Repeat for 5 decades
After 5 decades, conclude with:
Hail, Holy Queen...
Let us pray:
Dear sister Therese, to whom we are protege, I beseech you to send us a bounteous outpouring of roses, sweetly scented that, answering our prayers, love of Jesus in all hearts and endless conversions across the world may abound. Make of us a sweet testimony, O Holy Sister, to Our Lord Jesus Christ: teaching us the swift ways to eternal life!
For all devotees to St. Therese and those of the Holy Church
"Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest things right and doing it all for love."
"My vocation is love! In the heart of the Church, my Mother, I will be love."
"You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them."