Mary's Light in the Dark Night of Mother Teresa (excellent article/interview)

[BarbaraTherese]

Heaps of articles around on Mother Teresa and her Dark Night…also some books coming out on the same subject. This interview with Fr. Joseph Langford, co founder of The Missionaries of Charity with Mother Teresa is a particularly excellent and inspirational article I thought.

zenit.org/article-22398?l=english

Mary’s Light in Mother Teresa’s Dark Night

TIJUANA, MEXICO, APRIL 24, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The secular press recently was full of articles on how Mother Teresa had a “crisis” of faith for decades, but the untold story is how Mary sustained Mother Teresa during that time.

For insight, ZENIT turned to Missionary of Charity Father Joseph Langford, cofounder with Mother Teresa of her community of priests, the Missionaries of Charity Fathers, and author of “Mother Teresa: In the Shadow of Our Lady,” published by Our Sunday Visitor.

Father Langford told ZENIT how Mother Teresa clung to Our Lady throughout her dark night, and how we can grow closer to Mary by following Mother Teresa’s example.

Q: What made you decide that now would be a good time to tell this part of Mother’s story?read on here

 

[BarbaraTherese]

Father relates Mother Teresa’s vision:

She was shown a “large crowd” of poor of every kind, “covered in darkness” – a darkness she herself would soon share. Our Lady was standing in the midst of them, claiming them as her children.

Mother Teresa saw herself “as a little child,” standing directly in front of Our Lady, so close as to seem one thing with her, literally enveloped by her presence. What Mother Teresa saw in vision that day would indeed come to pass, as her mission became a kind of “extension of Our Lady” at the Calvaries of this world.

The vision and how Mother Teresa’s life unfolded into The Dark Night reminds me of what Simeon said to Our Lady when she and Joseph took Jesus to be circumcised. Luke, Chapter 2:
"35* And thy own soul a sword shall pierce" …for Chapter 2 of Luke go to here*