Her name is Blessed Eugénie Joubert!
She will be our guide as we discover the path of spiritual childhood.
If you wish, she will be our guide to the path of spiritual childhood that the Lord Jesus invites us to follow in order to reach the Kingdom of Heaven.

Before we follow in her footsteps, let us begin with a brief outline of her life, for those who do not know her…

Spiritual childhood is an invention that comes from the Heart of God! It is a light that enables us to see life in His own way. It is a path traced out by Jesus throughout his Gospel to guide us towards the Kingdom of Heaven.
Throughout this exploration of spiritual childhood, we will discover that Blessed Eugénie readily used images when she wrote.

Humility is like the good soil in which spiritual childhood can take root.
Blessed Eugenie wanted to become a disciple of Jesus and also took her model from the Virgin Mary.
She sought to uproot all pride… Let us follow in her footsteps, to follow the Lord.

The life of Our Lord Jesus is the most beautiful model of the importance given to little things. For thirty years of his life, he did little things with great love… aware that in doing so he was participating in the salvation of the world.
Blessed Eugenie gave importance to little things because she saw in them a gratuitousness directed towards God alone.
Let us follow her in her fidelity to little things…

Blessed Eugénie had the heart of a pure and simple child. Looking back over her life, she reflects a radical purity.
She clearly expresses the link that exists between the virtue of simplicity and spiritual childhood: ‘Being a little, tiny child, keeping simplicity and making it grow in me’.
We want to draw close with her to this source of purity and simplicity that helps us grow in spiritual childhood and bears such beautiful fruit!

The most beautiful fruit of spiritual childhood is undoubtedly the soul’s total trust in God. Indeed, the most repeated advice in both the Old and New Testaments is: “Do not be afraid”, “Take heart”. Jesus taught his apostles through his life and words.

Some people think that spiritual childhood means abandoning ourselves so much that all we have to do is let Jesus do the work. We wouldn’t have to make any effort.
Others think it’s a natural disposition for some people.
Still others think it’s holiness for the little ones, for those who aren’t very capable! The example of Blessed Eugenie will show us how wrong such conceptions are.

From the Feast of the Sacred Heart in 1902 onwards, Sister Eugénie Joubert was transferred to the monastery infirmary and began a new life that often kept her apart from her sisters. It was in this context that an intimate dialogue developed between Jesus and Sister Eugénie, from which we will quote extensive excerpts.

In the second part of our trilogy, we will discover that, for our blessed sister, the role of the Virgin Mary in spiritual childhood was central. Let us first consider how our dear sister spoke about it, then how she experienced it.

Little Eugénie was an outgoing and cheerful child. Throughout her life, her smiling face was a true inspiration to those around her. However, this happiness did not come without struggle.
Spiritual childhood, as taught by Blessed Eugénie, could be symbolised in the form of a rosary!

We have just followed Blessed Eugénie and travelled with her along a beautiful path, the path of spiritual childhood.

A gentle path in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus.

Spiritual childhood is so rich, so small and so great that we are filled with wonder, while perhaps saying to ourselves deep down: it is beautiful, but I am quite incapable of it…