The mission of St. Therese proves that sanctity does not consist in great deeds or in long prayers or severe penance.  Sanctity consists in loving God.   St. Therese shows us that anyone, of any age, in any state in life, can and must become a saint.  Her life displays for us the sure way to sanctity.  Her Little Way, as Mother Mary Bosco explains, simply means taking up the Cross daily and following Our Lord.