St. Thérèse, the Heavenly Father's Little Flower, your heart was so consumed with the desire to win souls for Your Lover that you willingly offered yourself as His "victim of love." As the patron saint of our Province, we beg you to not turn your back on us, but through your intercession and the intercession of the Blessed Mother Mary, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, I pray that the Lord may touch the hearts of men and women and fill them with the same desire that moved you, Little Flower, to give yourself to Him as His spouse. Protect your Province, the Oklahoma Semi-Province of St. Thérèse, and ask our Heavenly Father to fill its coffers full of good and holy friars, nuns, and seculars. May God bless our friars, nuns, and seculars to be holy men and women full of love and zeal for the work of our Lord with the spirit of St. Elijah. May your life lived in obedience, chastity, and poverty as a Carmelite, inspire those who are called by the Lord to the consecrated life to courageously say "Yes" and encourage them to live out this divine calling in their lives. Amen.