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When my husband was dying of cancer, the 24 hour care he would need was beyond our financial means (we had no insurance, of course), and beyond  my capacity.  I'm a people person. A paper person.  A computer person.  I am NOT, and never have been, a nursing or a doctor person.  

From the day I woke up from a snooze in anatomy class to discover the person next to me dissecting a frog, I knew that this type of thing was not for me. 

Yet, this incredibly ill man, who I loved with my whole heart, was coming home alone with me, and  no one else to help care for him. 

As I was agonizing over what to do, a novena of the late Mother Theresa's came to me in the mail.  I prayed the novena and agonized.  Exactly as promised, one day a change came over me.  Miraculously I was able to care for this wonderful human being AS HE NEEDED TO BE.  He died well, he died beautifully, he died loved, he died cared for, he died peacefully.  Mother came to our rescue.

I later attended her  beatification ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica.  

I am building this page in gratitude for all Mother did.  I recommend that you, too, when you need her, ask for her help.

Thank you for  your patience as I build this page.  It takes  a LOT to do this incredible woman justice. 

News! Mother Theresa's Diaries to be Published!

An Incredible Dark Night of the Soul

Let the Light Jesus - enlighten you.
Let the Way Jesus- lead you.
Let the Love Jesus- inflame you.
Let the Life Jesus- live in you.
For He is the Truth to be told.
The way to be walked.
The love to be loved.
The life to be lived.

Mother Teresa

+LDM Mon, Jun 04, 2007
Dear Margaret,

Fr. Brian MC, the Postulator of the cause of Canonization of Mother Teresa is finishing to write a book on Mother Teresa's interior life, the darkness that she lived in for almost 50 years. Please kindly pray that this book will be soon available for all to read and discover more through Mother Teresa how much Jesus loves each one of us. It is supposed to be out on September 4, Mother Teresa's 10th death anniversary.

Please kindly pray that the message of Mother Teresa through the work we are doing, may shine forth in the world of today, that "God still loves the world through you and through me today;" that the poorest of the poor, the unwanted, the lonely, the rejected and each one of us may know and experience how much God loves us personally.

God bless you and keep you in His Love.

Sr. M. Elisabeth MC

Mother's Dark Night of the Soul

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Mother Teresa's struggle with faith - a torment revealed in her own secret letters - was a struggle with Satan himself and should not block her ascension to sainthhood, former Ambassador to the Vatican Raymond L. Flynn told the Herald.
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Mother Teresa was not sophisticated. But she was smart ? very smart. She was aware ? super aware. She was also very simple in her understanding of Christ's presence in the world in and through every person.

That she did not ?feel? God's presence mattered not to her. That is the mark of the genuine dark night. She saw Christ present in every single person whom she met. And that is what Christianity is all about.

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Why Charity to the Sick and Dying?

Love is Eternal

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IN HULLABALOO OVER MOTHER TERESA, FEW FOCUSED ON ASTONISHING VOICES SHE HEARD
"I want Indian nuns, victims of My love, who would be Mary and Martha, who would be so very united to Me as to radiate My love on souls," the nun heard Our Lord say. "I want free nuns covered with the poverty of the Cross. I want obedient nuns covered with the obedience of the Cross.

"I want full of love nuns covered with the Charity of the Cross.

"Wilt thou refuse to do this for Me?"

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