Book description
During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa
became an icon of compassion to people of all religions, and none. Her
selfless commitment to the care of the sick and the dying, as well as
to thousands of others who no one else was prepared to help, has been
recognised and acclaimed throughout the world.
Yet this impressive collection of her writings shows a different and
unexpected picture of the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Her absolute
conviction that she was doing God's will is well known but what is a
revelation is the discovery that she fulfilled her mission in spite of
feeling a chasm of spiritual emptiness within her, which lasted for
decades.
This book is a moving chronicle of her spiritual journey and it
reveals the secrets she shared only with her closest confidants. It
also illustrates how the experience of an agonizing sense of loss need
not hold anyone back from doing something extraordinary with their lives.
Born in Skopje in 1910, Mother Teresa joined the Sisters of Loreto
in Dublin in 1928 and was sent to India, where she began her
novitiate. She taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta from 1931
to 1948, until leaving the Loreto order to begin the Missionaries of
Charity. Through her sisters, brothers and priests, her service to the
poorest of the poor spread all around the world. She won many awards,
including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. After her death in 1997, the
process for her sainthood was quickly begun and she was beatified in 2003.
Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M. C., Ph. D., was born in Winnipeg, Canada.
He met Mother Teresa in 1977 and was associated with her until her
death in 1997. He joined the Missionaries of Charity Fathers at the
time of their foundation in 1984. Fr. Brian is postulator of the Cause
of Beatification and Canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and
director of the Mother Teresa Center.
