To begin your preparation for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, please watch this 2:29 video with English subtitles; see Pope Francis proclaim the Year of Mercy.  He announced it at the end of his homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

Pope Francis's Lenten message offers St. Therese of Lisieux as an example of how the saints are not indifferent to us:

The prayers of the Church on earth establish a communion of mutual service and goodness which reaches up into the sight of God. Together with the saints who have found their fulfilment in God, we form part of that communion in which indifference is conquered by love. The Church in heaven is not triumphant because she has turned her back on the sufferings of the world and rejoices in splendid isolation. Rather, the saints already joyfully contemplate the fact that, through Jesus’ death and resurrection, they have triumphed once and for all over indifference, hardness of heart and hatred. Until this victory of love penetrates the whole world, the saints continue to accompany us on our pilgrim way. Saint Therese of Lisieux, a Doctor of the Church, expressed her conviction that the joy in heaven for the victory of crucified love remains incomplete as long as there is still a single man or woman on earth who suffers and cries out in pain: “I trust fully that I shall not remain idle in heaven; my desire is to continue to work for the Church and for souls” (Letter 254, July 14, 1897).

We share in the merits and joys of the saints, even as they share in our struggles and our longing for peace and reconciliation. Their joy in the victory of the Risen Christ gives us strength as we strive to overcome our indifference and hardness of heart.  

[from the Vatican Web site]

Read Pope Francis's message for Lent 2015 in full.  And read the letter the Pope cited from St. Therese (her last letter to her spiritual brother, Father Adolphe Roulland) at the Web site of the Archives of the Carmel of Lisieux.

Please see this story about the announcement of the opening of the diocesan process at "Leonie Martin, Disciple and Sister of St. Therese of Lisieux."

A series of photos of Therese which have been retouched by her sister Celine are presented side by side with the authentic photos by the Web site of the Archives of the Carmel of Lisieux to allow viewers to see that these retouched photos "promulgated a largely false image of Therese." Please view the authentic and the retouched versions of 22 photos of St. Therese at the Web site of the Archives of the Carmel of Lisieux.

The retouched photos and other paintings of Therese by Celine were circulated from 1898 through 1961.  In 1961 (after Celine's death in 1959), the Carmel published the authentic photos of Therese in the two-volume Visage de Therese in French.  It appeared in English as The Photo Album of St. Therese of Lisieux (New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1961).  All 47 authentic, unretouched photos of Therese may now be viewed online at the Web site of the Archives of the Carmel of Lisieux. 

To stay up to date, please subscribe to the newsletter of the Web site of the Archives of the Carmel of Lisieux.  (This link leads to the page where you can enter your e-mail address in the box at the bottom of the page). You will then receive in your in-box occasional very short (one or two paragraphs) alerts (in both French and English) from the Archives with links to their newest postings.

When we realize that God is in love with our smallness, that he made himself small in order to better encounter us, we cannot help but open our hearts to him

Please read Pope Francis's Christmas Eve homily, full of themes from St. Therese.