Saint Therese Shows Us How to Extinguish the Flames of Purgatory

Written by St. Therse of Lisieux:

"My Beloved, this is how my life will be consumed. I have no means of proving my love for you other than that of strewing flowers, that is, not allowing one little sacrifice to escape, not one look, one word, profiting by all the samllest things and doing them through love. I desire  to suffer for love and even to rejoice through love, and in this way I shall strew flowers before your throne. I shall not come upon one without unpetalling it for you. While I am strewing my flowers, I shall sing, for could one cry while doing such a joyous action? I shall sing even when I must gather my flowers in the midst of thorns, and my song will be all the more melodious in proportion to the length an sharpness of the thorns. 

O Jesus, of what use will my flowers be to you? Ah! I know very well that this fragrant shower, these fragile, worthless petals. these songs of love from the littlest of hearts will charm you. Yes, these nothings will please you. They will bring a smile to the Church Triumphant (angels and saints in heaven). She will gather up my flowers unpetalled through love and have them pass through your own divine hands, O Jesus. And this Church in heaven, desirous of playing with her little child, will cast these flowers, which are now infinitely valuable because of your divine touch, upon the Church Suffering (souls in purgatory) in order to extinguish its flames and upon the Church Militant (Christians on earth) in order to gain the victory for it."