How ironic that as I opened my devotional to the following excerpt by Mother Teresa on suffering just as I’m contemplating her dark night, and the difference between that kind of suffering and the symptoms of clinical depression. Here is an excerpt entitled “Christ’s Compassion for the Suffering” Suffering has to come because if you…

How weird is this? Just as I’m quoting Blondie about the topic of letting go, I check out her blog and she’s writing on the same subject. And very poignant and beautiful stuff. She’s got some cool graphics, too, that I don’t know how to do yet (sorry!). So go to her blog, Tales From…

Back in 2003, Beliefnet’s Rome correspondent Father Raymond J. de Souza interviewed Brian Kolodiejchuk, the Missionary of Charity priest who is advancing Mother Teresa’s sainthood cause and the editor of the new compilation of Mother Teresa’s writings. Here are a few excerpts from the interview. To read the entire article, click here. What did you…

This morning I read the following hymn in my devotional, “Magnificat.” The words could have been composed by Mother Teresa, because, like her most personal writings edited and compiled by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., they speak of finding the light in our darkness: O Light that knew no dawn, That shines to endless day, All things…

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