Mother Teresa's spirituality is in the prominence ten years after her passing with the publication of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. This aggregation predominantly of equality betwixt Mother Teresa and priests who functioned as her confessors as all right as whichever others shows an central life of shadow for just about 50 old age. I was advantaged to meet Mother Teresa in the 70s when she visited New Zealand. I visited her toil in Calcutta in the 80s. The hypersensitivity of a number of to this narrative - even to the ingredient of describing her as hypocritical - in my persuasion misunderstands the mystic spree.
Christian property distinguishes involving the Creator and God's development. Time, space, all we experience, ourselves, even our thoughts and morale - all these are created by God. They are creatures. Our morale for God, our experiences of God are not God - they are creatures.
Our impression of God is ever too modest. We run to say God is approaching us - lonesome bigger. That is called the kataphatic convention. God is ruling resembling us - but much so: all powerful; adoring - all loving; in progress - omnipresent; wise - all knowing, wise...
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There is other tradition, called the apophatic tradition: God is not look-alike this, God is not similar to that. We on the odd occasion hound this apophatic norm in the West, and discovery it more commonly in the East, together with Eastern Orthodoxy. We do have a illustrious Western hymn that includes it:
"Immortal, invisible, God with the sole purpose wise,
In featherweight untrod hid from our eyes,
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Unresting, unhasting, and still as light,
Nor wanting, nor feebleness..."
It is mournfully not unexpected, then, in our kataphatically slanted West to breakthrough race flabbergasted that Mother Teresa's go through was not of private perception delight, but of "light out of reach hid from our eyes". The institution of "Dark Night of the Soul" is usually misunderstood. It is a regular element of the go from touchy-feely God for God's gifts to affectioned God in Godself. And for many, Mother Teresa unmistakably included, it forms the connatural surroundings of their confidential duration.
There is, of course, regrettably the trouble that culture of faith experiencing disquiet will misdiagnose this as the Dark Night of the Soul when, in fact, they status direction or separate relieve. But for copious this live lightness of the murkiness of Mother Teresa's hidden duration will facilitate them to reposition further than a rummage through for supernatural experiences to a real pass through into God.
Mother Teresa's church property is in the glare ten old age after her departure beside the publication of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light.
Mother Teresa's spirituality will stress once once again the importance of earnestness in a civilization so commonly decisive on vibrations and experiences.
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