“Dear Lord, help me spread your fragrance where I go.
Flood my soul with your spirit and life.Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of yours.
Shine through me, and be in me, so that every soul I come in contact with may feel your presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me, but only you, O Lord!
Stay with me, then I shall begin to shine as you do; to shine so as to be a light to others. The light, O Lord, will be all from you; none of it will be mine; it will be you shining on others through me.
Let me thus praise you in the way you love best, by shining on those around me.
Let me preach you without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to you .
Amen.”
Mother Teresa In the Heart of the World (page 89)
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“Prayer is not asking.
Prayer is putting oneself in the
hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to His voice in the depths of
our hearts.”
Mother Teresa In
My Own Words (page 9)
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Bread of Life
“Christ changed himself into bread of life. Changing himself into bread, he became totally at our disposal so that, having been fed by him, we would feel the strength necessary to give ourselves to others.”
Mother Teresa In My Own Words (page 100)
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Forgiveness
Mother Teresa In
My Own Words (page 100)
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Abortion
“A great poverty reigns in a country that allow taking the
life of an unborn child-a child created in God‘s image, created to live and to
love. His or her life is not for
destroying but for living, despite the selfishness of those who fear that they
lack the means to feed or educate one more child.”
Mother Teresa In
My Own Words (page 26)
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“The first person in the world to welcome Jesus, to
recognize him in the womb of his own mother, was a child: John the
Baptist. It is wonderful, God choose an
unborn child to announce the coming of his redeeming Son.”
Mother Teresa In
My Own Words (page 68)
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Happiness
“I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in
you, and that your joy may be complete“ (John 15:11)
We are talking about the joy that comes from union with God,
from living in his presence, because living in his presence fills us with joy.
When I speak of joy, I do not identify it with loud laughter
or with noise. This is not true
happiness. Sometimes it hides other
things.
When I speak of happiness, I refer to an inner and deep
peace, which shows itself in our eyes, on our faces, in our attitudes, in our
gestures, in our promptness.”
Mother Teresa In
My Own Words (page 42)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
― Mother Teresa
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My Dear Children: Mother Teresa's Last Message
“I worry that some of you
still have not really met Jesus, one on one, you and Jesus alone. We may spend time in chapel, but have you
seen with the eyes of your soul how He looks at you with love?
Do you really know the living
Jesus-not from books, but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to
you? Ask for the grace; He is longing to
give it. Until you can hear Jesus in the
silence of your own heart, you will not be able to hear Him saying, “I thirst”
in the hears of the poor. Never give up
this daily, intimate contact with Jesus as the real living person-not just the
idea. How can we last even one day
without hearing Jesus say, “I love you?”
Impossible!
Our soul needs this as much
as the body needs to breathe the air. If
not, prayer is dead-meditation is only thinking. Jesus wants you each to hear Him speaking in
the silence of you heart. Be careful of
all that can block that personal contact with the living Jesus. The devil may try to use the hurts of life,
and sometimes our own mistakes, to make you feel that it is impossible that
Jesus really loves you, is really cleaving to you. This is the danger for all of us. And so sad, because it is completely the
opposite of what Jesus is really wanting, waiting to tell you. Not only that He loves you, but even more-He
longs for you.
He misses you when you don’t
come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don’t feel
worthy. When not accepted by others,
even by yourself sometimes, He is the one who always accepts you. Only believe you are precious to Him. Bring all you who are suffering to His
feet. Only open your heart to be loved
by Him as you are. He will do the rest!
Mother Teresa
- Mother Teresa, 1910-1997
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