Come Be My Light; The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
New York: Doubleday Religion, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, 2007. First Paperback Edition, later printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 5 inches by 8 inches. x, 404, [2] pages. Footnotes. Cover and first few pages are creased and the book has some wear. Includes Preface; Introduction; Conclusion; Appendix A: Rules; Appendix B: Retreat Notes of Mother Teresa; Endnotes, Acknowledgments, and Index. Chapters include "Put Your Hand in His Hand, and Walk Alone with Him; Something Very Beautiful for Jesus; "Come, Be My Light"; "To Bring Joy to the Suffering Heart of Jesus; Delay No Longer. Keep Me Not Back; To the ''Dark Holes"; The Dark Night of the Birth of the Society; The Thirst of Jesus Crucified; "My God, How Painful Is This Unknown Pain; "I Have come to Love the Darkness; "At His Disposal"; "God Uses Nothingness to Show His Greatness; and Radiating Christ. Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. She was canonized on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day. Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC, Ph.D. was the advocate for Mother Teresa of Calcutta in the cause for her canonization, and director of the Mother Teresa Center. He edited and wrote the commentary for the book Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. Father Kolodiejchuk's 20-year association with Mother Teresa began in 1977 when he joined a new group of contemplative brothers she was then starting. He later joined the priestly branch of Mother Teresa's religious family, the Missionaries of Charity Fathers, at the time of their foundation in 1984. He was ordained to the priesthood in June 1985 in the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Newark, New Jersey, USA, by the late Metropolitan-Archbishop of Winnipeg, Maxim Hermaniuk, C.Ss.R. In March 1999 he served as Mother Teresa's advocate in advancing the cause of her beatification and canonization. He was appointed director of the Mother Teresa Center, which is an extension of the office for the cause of canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in June 2004. This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history--Mother Teresa. During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa's interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time. Compiled and presented by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of the Mother Teresa Center, Mother Teresa brings together letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades. A moving chronicle of her spiritual journey, including moments, indeed years, of utter desolation, these letters reveal the secrets she shared only with her closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul. "If I ever become a Saint-- I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from Heaven-- to light the light of those in darkness on earth." --Mother Teresa. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Catholic Church; Christian life; Saints, Faith, Religion, Spirituality, God, Joy, Suffering, Poverty, Pain, Darkness, Jesus, Christ, Selflessness, Love, Piety, Compassion
ISBN: 9780307589231
[Book #82456]
Price: $17.50