"Jesus Preferential Love for the Poor"

A review of Missionaries Of Charity by Kevin Mcfadden written on Monday 3rd of November 2008

I am just finishing reading Blessed Mother Teresa's

memoirs and it strokes me that here is definitely a Saint. 'By their fruits you shall know them', said Our Lord and I feel that nothing is wanting in her cause for canonisation on this score.

She lived through the classic mystical experience of 'The Dark night of the Soul' for decades. An excruciatingly impoverishing experince of the absence of God deep within the core of one's being. For my part I am a very common sinner and I have no inkling of what this experience is like. Nevertheless Mother Teresa could still bear God to others and be the bridge between people, especially the poor, and their own personal saviour. In this way she has doubtless brought inummerable Souls to salvation already.

Never was she deterred in unstintingly giving her all to God and from a very early age, in imitation of her patron Saint Therese of Lisieux she had made the very austere resolution to, 'Refuse nothing to the good God.' And this in spite of his seeming total absence within her own Soul which she has described in these words; 'If there is more than one Hell then this is certainly one of them.' She made this statement to lay bear the searing pain she was in and not to confuse dogma.

Mother Teresa, again in imitation of another one of her namesakes - Saint Teresa of Avila - made the assertion that all the trouble and suffering she had borne over many years for the Love of the Good God would all be worthwhile were it to prove enough to secure the salvation of just one Soul for Jesus.

Oh, would that it were, if only we all had the same appreciation of the value of human beings in the eyes of God.

Mother also made the assertion that the greatest moral evil of our age is abortion. She puts it to us that, since God has us all carved in the palm of His Hand at the moment of our conception, for a mother to kill her own baby whom God has made to Love and be Loved then nothing is too low for humanity.

What matter if I kill you or you kill me, strangers as we are, since mothers are killing their very own infants.

I have really been touched while reading this book and it has given me a dtermination to re-invigorate my own Faith when as I learn of Mother's heroic virtues. She was a champion not just of the poor, but of the poorest of the poor and she lived the same poverty with them so as to become like Our Lord, 'Who being rich yet became poor for our sakes.'

The book is called, 'Come be my light' and it is sure to set all those who read it afire with wonder at the Love of God for humanity as evidenced in the person of this Angelic nun soon to become a Saint..

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