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
