He's a very nice young man, and he preaches like an angel.
Posted on 08/26/2007 2:55:47 PM PDT by Salvation
London, Aug. 25 (PTI): A day after it was revealed that Mother Teresa had a deep crisis of faith in God for the last four decades of her life, the Vatican has said that her path to sainthood will not be affected by the controversy.
"Mother Teresa has already been beatified. For her canonisation as a saint, she now requires one more verified miracle," 'The Daily Telegraph' reported here today, quoting Monsignor Robert Sarno, in charge of her case at Congregation for the Causes of Saints, as saying.
The 'Saint of the Gutter', who died on September 5, 1997, nine days after her 87th birthday, is likely be canonised as a saint by the Vatican later this year. Admitting that Mother Teresa had, at times, turned away from God, Mgr Sarno said, "It's really very simple. People have to realise that the Church does not canonise God. She was a human being... she faced reality. Even the saints are faced with the difficulties of life."
The Vatican has more than 35,000 pages of documents attesting to the virtues and shortcomings of Mother Teresa. Mgr Sarno said he had to close the investigation because of the enormous amount of evidence that poured from Mother Teresa's supporters. "Over 100 witnesses, far more than in any other case for sainthood, have testified."
According to some of the letters within her file, Mother Teresa began to struggle with her belief in God at roughly the same time as she started caring for the poor and sick in Kolkata in 1949.
The Catholic Association of Bengal, the largest lay organisation in Calcutta, has mounted a constant prayer for the last two weeks to push her cause forward at Rome. It has also nominated 2007 as the 'Year of Mother Teresa's Sainthood', since Sept 5 will mark her 10th death anniversary.
The MSM hates godly people and lives for anything they can use to discredit them or run them down. Mother Theresa was/is a person whose lifestyle and words rebuke everything the MSM stands for.
That's it! Doesn't want anyone else modeling her behavior. Her sisters are required to spend a certain amount of time in prayer each day before the Holy Eucharist. They joyfully comply even when they have worked overtime and are exhausted. It's no wonder Satan wants to see her reputation smeared. And he has willing accomplices in the media.
You are aware, aren’t you of how the lamestream media, ABCNNBCBS, hates Christians — and in particular, Catholics??
Isn’t this the reason for this old story being raked up again?
Sure, I know. What annoys me is how they take advantage of the poor memory that most people have about things like this, the bottled water stuff, etc. Too many people don’t remember even recent history, and are repeating it.
Agree with you about the short memory and the bottled water.
But will people remember Princess Diana who died at the same time as Mother Teresa ten years ago? LOL!
He's a very nice young man, and he preaches like an angel.
"Louisville Slugger", FRiends. Words to live by.
Besides, why spoil a perfectly good bat? (although a friend of mine does carry a fungo bat when he goes jogging, as defense against dogs.)
I would have been using both hands and teeing off on whoever was handy.
Amazing that there is more coverage of Princess Diana, not begrudging her charity work, who passed a couple days before Blessed Mother Teresa. But at least we have a woman here who lived the Gospel out everyday and started an order that helps the poorest of the poor. I think all this talk will bring even more devotion to Blessed Mother Teresa.
To me, she is a saint already, even without the needed process.
God makes saints, men don't, and I think you're right that she's firmly ensconced in Heaven already. All the canonization process establishes is that the Church officially recognizes that she is in Heaven.
And because the lamestream media is doing this to Mother Teresa, she is getting more advertisement and coverage ten years later than Princess Diana is! LOL — and thank you, God!
40 years? Thats a long time.
How true, even Time Magazine is making Blessed Mother Teresa the cover for its main story this week and Princess Diana is given a small front picture on top, how ironic. This will help her cause because more people will look for prayers for her intercesion and viola, another miracle comes about because of her direct prayers to God, making her a saint in the offical sense. Thank-you God and Time Magazine for helping Blessed Mother Teresa’s cause.
"If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint." - St. Ignatius of Loyola
Of course.
All of the great saints go through an extremely trying night of the soul.
Got a link to the Father’s show?
First of all, the believer is always threatened with an uncertainty that in moments of temptation can suddenly and unexpectedly cast a peircing light on the fragility of the whole that usually seems so self-evident to him. A few examples will help to make this clear. That lovable Saint Therese of Lisieux, who looks so naive and unproblematical, grew up in an atmosphere of complete religious security; her whole existence from beginning to end, and down to the smallest detail, was so completely molded by the faith of the Church that the invisible world became, not just a part of her everyday life, but that life itself. It seemed to be an almost tangible reality that could not be removed by any amout of thinking. To her, "religion" really was a self-evident presupposition of her daily existence; she dealt with it as we deal with the concrete details of our lives. Yet this very saint, a person apparently cocooned in complete security, left behind her, from the last weeks of her passion, shattering admissions that her horrified sisters toned down in her literary remains and that have only now come to light in the new verbatim editions. She says, for example, "I am assailed by the worst temptations of atheism," Her mind is beset by every possible argument against the faith; the sense of believing seems to have vanished; she feels that she is now "in sinners' shoes." In other words, in what is apparently a flawlessly interlocking world someone here suddenly catches a glimmpse of the abyss lurking - even for her - under the firm structure of the supporting connventions. In a situation like this, what is in question is not the sort of thing that one perhaps quarrels about otherwise - the dogma of the Assmmption, the proper use of confession - all this becomes absulutely secondary. What is at stake is the whole structure; it is a question of all or nothing. That is the only remaining alternative; nowhere does there seem anything to cling to in this sudden fall. Wherever one looks, only the bottomless abyss of nothingness can be seen.
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