Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith

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To me, this revelation makes Mother Theresa seem at once more human and more heroic. I thought of her often and asked her for help when I was going through the RCIA.
 
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zerinus said:
They reveal a crisis of faith in her life that lasted fourty years, to the end of her life. (The first link may require a login; but a trial is free. I can cut and paste if you have difficulty viewing):

startribune.com/562/story/1395491.html

telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/24/wteresa124.xml

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She was probably suffering a burnout , but she didn’t quit!

She was ill and maybe wondered who was going to carry on, but she didn’t quit!

She saw 10 + babies die each and every day, but she didn’t quit!

She appealed and struggled with many governments, turned down and told not to prostelize her faith, but she DIDN’T quit, till her body could not go on anymore and then she said “I LOVE JESUS.”

Could you do this?
Could anyone other than a Saint do this?

Watch her movie DVD of here work and it will leave you speachless.

Better yet go to Porta Prince in the Dominican Republic and see some of her work that she did start. The truth will come out and the merciful shall see justice.

Dessert
 
dessert said:
She was probably suffering a burnout , but she didn’t quit!

She was ill and maybe wondered who was going to carry on, but she didn’t quit!

She saw 10 + babies die each and every day, but she didn’t quit!

She appealed and struggled with many governments, turned down and told not to prostelize her faith, but she DIDN’T quit, till her body could not go on anymore and then she said “I LOVE JESUS.”

Could you do this?
Could anyone other than a Saint do this?

Watch her movie DVD of here work and it will leave you speachless.

Better yet go to Porta Prince in the Dominican Republic and see some of her work that she did start. The truth will come out and the merciful shall see justice.

Dessert
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I wasn’t questioning her virtue or sanctity. I thought it was an interesting story.

zerinus
 
Pretty darn impressive, isn’t she? She gave to those who could not give back. She lived and died for Jesus Christ, knowing He had already given her His most inestimable gift. She did not allow human emotions to dictate how far she was willing to go to love her Jesus.
How many of us invite mostly, if not only, those who can somehow give something back to us. (today’s reading Lk 14: 7-14)
How many of us, in human relationships and in our relationship with God, put much emphasis on some “burning in our bosom”, as though it is the be-all-end-all in faith. And then, when we determine that we are not “being fed”, abandon Our Lord.
She lived by faith. That is, believed what she could not see or feel. She simply lived, “Jesus, I trust in you.”
“Crisis of faith” is, in my mind, a misnomer. “Crisis of feeling” might work, but I think her faith was far from in “crisis”.
 
in 1959 when she refound God, until her death at age 87, a decade ago.

After Pope Pius XII died in October, 1958, Mother Teresa prayed to him for proof God was pleased with her work. “Then and there,” she rejoiced, “disappeared the long darkness … that strange suffering of 10 years.”

“I have come to love the darkness for I believe now that it is part of a very, very small part of Jesus’ darkness & pain on earth,” she wrote in 1961.

Mother Teresa was a 36-year-old convent teacher riding on a train in India on Sept. 10, 1946, when she said Christ spoke to her directly, telling her to become a missionary in the slums to help the poorest of the poor.

“Come be My light,” is what she heard.

canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=4972bf1c-64f2-464e-b218-23d84c841be8
 
I have just purchased the book.

Inside leaf:
…Compiled and presented by Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for 20 years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood…
 
I had heard that she had suffered from this for many years.

What a great testament to walking by faith!
 
I first read about this over on Jimmy Akin’s fine blog. I was deeply moved & inspired that Mother Teresa continued on with her difficult work for so many years, despite the lack of any consolations…

Makes me feel guilty, when I think how I sometimes let “how I feel” get in the way of what I do…and then, I remember: 👍 Mother Teresa was a living saint. I’m just a :o regular human being like most of the rest of the world.
 
What an insperation she was! And still is.
Her faith is just amazing, she never gave up on it.
We all struggle from time to time with exactly the same thing, its just the human side of us.
But she had that extra strength to keep her going, truly remarkable.
I would say God bless her soul, but im sure he has already done that numerous times over!
I aspire to be more like her, even just have a bit of her devotion would be great!
Still, God bless her even more so!
 
exiled said:
How many of us, in human relationships and in our relationship with God, put much emphasis on some “burning in our bosom”, as though it is the be-all-end-all in faith. And then, when we determine that we are not “being fed”, abandon Our Lord.
She lived by faith. That is, believed what she could not see or feel. She simply lived, “Jesus, I trust in you.”
“Crisis of faith” is, in my mind, a misnomer. “Crisis of feeling” might work, but I think her faith was far from in “crisis”.
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That really says it all. Thank you, exiled. Faith is not about what we feel, but about what we do. The fact that she had the faith to go on giving when she got nothing in return is what makes her a saint. Remember everyone, that what makes a saint is “a life of heroic virtue”, not warm fuzzies.
Blessed Teresa, pray for us!
Paul
 
They reveal a crisis of faith in her life that lasted fourty years, to the end of her life. (The first link may require a login; but a trial is free. I can cut and paste if you have difficulty viewing):
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They don’t reveal a “Crisis in Faith” the way the media is trying to present this. MANY Saints have written of similar experiences…it’s called the “the dark night of the soul” St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Padre Pio and many others experienced this same thing where their prayer life becomes dry and they feel as if God has abandoned them and yet still continue…in true faith…to do God’s will.
 
I believe that some of the miracles that are and will be done through her intercessions have to do with the honesty that many Godly people will find more comforting. We will understand better what people like St. John of the Cross and St. Paul “I die daily” meant when they shared in the fulfillment of Christ’s suffering. Joy is not the same of perpetual giddiness. Joy has more to do with trust and contentment than with giggling. I’m glad for the laughter that our Lord’s allows but I’m even more joyful for the simple confidence that he gives.

CDL
 
“Crisis of Faith” is (deliberately) misleading…as to suggest that ‘she died in doubt’ of her faith in Our Lord!

The ‘emptiness of abandonment’ she encountered or felt during her trials and tribulations…and still toilled away continuously in her love of Christ…?? I pray that I am spared from experiencing an iota of it, for I know that I will fail miserably, the wretched creature that I am!

At least her ‘final testimony,’ in dying Catholic, I can look forward to emulate.

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