Opposed to the entry into the Carmel of Thérèse, whom she considered too young to understand Carmelite life, Sr Saint-Jean de la Croix said after her entry: "I am very surprised at what I see because Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus is extraordinary, she shows us all. And it happened to her, the former, to seek advice from Thérèse for her spiritual life.
After Thérèse's death, Sister Saint-Jean de la Croix composed a prayer to invoke her every day and she always kept this prayer in one of her office books:
"My little sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, I greet you through the Heart of Jesus, and I offer you this same Heart of your divine Spouse. I thank him for all the graces he has showered on you. I beg you to associate me on earth with the love you have for him in heaven. Pray the seraph who must have pierced your heart with the arrow of divine love to please do in me what he did in you. Since we are the children of the Saints, have for me, I beg you, the tenderness of a Mother, assist me until the evening of my life and bless me.
A tiny nothing"
