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Revealed, in her never-before-published private letters: Mother Teresa's "dark night of the soul"
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C.
During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa of Calcutta's public image was that of a tiny, energetic woman of cheerful disposition who embodied the essence of Christian faith in action. People of all creeds were attracted to the joy and peace that radiated from her -- but only her closest spiritual advisors knew of the agonizing spiritual pain she endured for almost fifty years. Now, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of her death, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light brings together the private letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors which reveal the hidden dynamics of her relationship with God -- including moments, indeed years, of utter desolation. In this moving chronicle of her spiritual journey, Mother Teresa emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true "dark night of the soul."
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Compiled and presented by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C. -- who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of the Mother Teresa Center -- the reflections gathered here, almost all of which have never been made public before, shed light on Mother Teresa's interior life as nothing else ever has. The paradoxical and totally unsuspected cost of Mother Teresa's mission, we discover, was that she herself would feel abandoned by God and live in "terrible darkness" -- a darkness that would prove to be an essential element of her vocation.
"If I ever become a Saint, I will surely be one of ‘darkness,'" she writes. "I will continually be absent from Heaven -- to light the light of those in darkness on earth." This previously unknown aspect of her interior life revealed here help us gain greater insight into her resolute faith and her intense love for God and neighbor.
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