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Like you said Dan, you don't know the woman,so why would you bash him.. she sacrified her whole life to help people,I think she deserves some respect
Like you said Dan, you don't know the woman,so why would you bash him.. she sacrified her whole life to help people,I think she deserves some respect
Does a true saintly being say some of the things she wrote in her published diaries ??? Personally i have no idea what so ever... But it has to be said that such excerpts as these (below) changed my thoughts on the woman to a certain extent...
she said, “Because (I) was forever smiling, people thought my faith, my hope and my love are overflowing and that my intimacy with God and union with his fill my heart. If they only knew.” And finally this heartbreaking statement: “I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God and that he does not really exist.”
Mother Teresa’s diary reveals her crisis of faith
Mother Teresa, who was put on the fast track to sainthood by the Pope after her death five years ago, was tormented by a crisis of belief for 50 years, her writings reveal.
Her letters and diaries present a completely different picture of the nun and Nobel peace prize winner from her public image as a woman confident of her faith. Biographies would have to be rewritten to take the revelation into account, it was said in Rome yesterday.
The previously unpublished material is to be brought out as a volume in Italy. It was collected by Roman Catholic authorities in Calcutta after her death at the age of 87.
Mother Teresa, who worked for years among the poor of Calcutta, wrote in 1958: “My smile is a great cloak that hides a multitude of pains.” Because she was “forever smiling”, people thought “my faith, my hope and my love are overflowing and that my intimacy with God and union with his will fill my heart. If only they knew . . .”
Mother Teresa, who was greatly admired by Diana, Princess of Wales, said in another letter: “The damned of Hell suffer eternal punishment because they experiment with the loss of God. In my own soul, I feel the terrible pain of this loss. I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God and that he does not really exist.”
Mother Teresa’s personal writings are being published next month as Il Segreto di Madre Teresa (Mother Teresa’s Secret). —Telegraph
Mother Teresa, who was put on the fast track to sainthood by the Pope after her death five years ago, was tormented by a crisis of belief for 50 years, her writings reveal.
Her letters and diaries present a completely different picture of the nun and Nobel peace prize winner from her public image as a woman confident of her faith. Biographies would have to be rewritten to take the revelation into account, it was said in Rome yesterday.
The previously unpublished material is to be brought out as a volume in Italy. It was collected by Roman Catholic authorities in Calcutta after her death at the age of 87.
Mother Teresa, who worked for years among the poor of Calcutta, wrote in 1958: “My smile is a great cloak that hides a multitude of pains.” Because she was “forever smiling”, people thought “my faith, my hope and my love are overflowing and that my intimacy with God and union with his will fill my heart. If only they knew . . .”
Mother Teresa, who was greatly admired by Diana, Princess of Wales, said in another letter: “The damned of Hell suffer eternal punishment because they experiment with the loss of God. In my own soul, I feel the terrible pain of this loss. I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God and that he does not really exist.”
Mother Teresa’s personal writings are being published next month as Il Segreto di Madre Teresa (Mother Teresa’s Secret). —Telegraph
Thats a scandal really. Wow, thats actually quite shocking. It does not really affect me in anyway considering I have no belief in religion, infact I quite despise the idea of religion, but its amazing that this woman who gave so much light to people through her faith was actually a person with so many self doubts.
