{"id":57110,"date":"2024-03-18T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/?p=57110"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:52:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:52:59","slug":"la-madre-teresa-de-calcuta-ivenglish18324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/?p=57110","title":{"rendered":"la Madre Teresa de Calcuta IMother Teresa of Calcutta came \u201cto love the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta came \u201cto love the dark<\/span><\/p>\n

Father Kolodiejchuk at the presentation of \u00abThe Private Letters\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mother Teresa’s private correspondence allows us to reconstruct \u00abthe most spiritual side\u00bb and less known of the work that made this humble Albanian famous, as explained by the postulator of her cause, who was able to access the letters that are now published at the beginning of her process of beatification.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the surprises that this documentation held was hidden from most people behind Mother Teresa’s permanent smile, and yet it was essential to her vocation. It is about the inner darkness that she experienced especially from the 1960s, but that she began to feel much earlier, around 1937, when she was still a missionary from Loreto, before founding her own Congregation (Missionaries of Charity ).<\/span><\/p>\n

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However, her Mother Teresa was able to harmonize the \u00abjoy of doing what God asked of her day after day\u00bb with \u00abheartbreak and loneliness\u00bb. According to Father Kolodiejchuk, \u00absmiling\u00bb was her choice. In one of her letters, Mother Teresa writes: \u00abWhen I see someone sad, I always think that she is denying something to Jesus.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

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In addition, the nun came to \u00ablove the dark\u00bb, as she confessed in a letter to Father Neuner: \u00abFor the first time in these eleven years-I have come to love the dark.-Well, now I think it is a part, a very, very small part of the darkness and pain of Jesus on earth. You have taught me to accept it as a \u00abspiritual side of \u00abhis work\u00bb\u00bb (…) Today I really felt a deep joy-because Jesus can no longer suffer from agony again-but He wants to suffer it in me-More than ever I give myself to Him.-Yes-more than ever I will be at your disposal\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Father Kolodiejchuk confessed that he had to read the letters \u00abseveral times\u00bb until he understood what her \u00abdarkness\u00bb was really about; even many sisters who lived near her, \u00abhad no idea what was going on inside her.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

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Seeing the enormous work that Mother Teresa carried out (especially after her \u00abinspiration\u00bb in 1946, when she received \u00abthe call within the call\u00bb to work among the poorest of the poor) the easiest thing is to think that she did it supported in the comfort he experienced in God. However, according to the postulator of her cause, what made her life \u00abheroic\u00bb was precisely her fidelity to God despite this lack of consolation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For Mother Teresa, \u00abthe greatest poverty in the world today\u00bb was \u00abnot feeling loved\u00bb, that is why she understood that experiencing the abandonment of her Beloved as something real brought her closer to her poor and identified her with the suffering of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the Cross, when he asks the Father: \u00abWhy have you forsaken me?\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to Father Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa’s experience is similar to that of other saints and more than a \u00abcrisis\u00bb of faith (which refers to something \u00abmore existential and intellectual\u00bb), what the Mother went through was a \u00abtest of faith \u00bb until reaching, as one of his confessors said, \u00aba pure and naked faith, without feeling anything\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In addition, the postulator of the Cause of Mother Teresa sees in this attitude an example for believers, who must know that \u00abfaith is not always easy\u00bb and \u00abwe have to fight\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Despite Mother Teresa’s wish that her writings be destroyed, they have finally seen the light, because the Church considers that although it was a \u00abpersonal\u00bb experience, it was not a \u00abprivate\u00bb experience, because it was not just for her. . The Missionaries of Charity inherited the \u00abcharisma\u00bb of Mother Teresa, which consists not only in sharing material poverty, but also \u00abspiritual poverty.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

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The postulator of the Cause of beatification of the nun concluded that the love that Mother Teresa lived is not only \u00abto admire\u00bb, but that \u00abit is possible to imitate it starting around us\u00bb.<\/span>
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TweetMother Teresa of Calcutta came \u201cto love the dark Father Kolodiejchuk at the presentation of \u00abThe Private Letters\u00bb .   Mother Teresa’s private correspondence allows us to reconstruct \u00abthe most spiritual side\u00bb and less known of the work that made this humble Albanian famous, as explained by the postulator of her cause, who was able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divulgacion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58877,"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57110\/revisions\/58877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}