Monday, September 5, 2011

Today's Feast -- Bl. Teresa of Calcutta

You are being sent, you have not chosen for yourself where you want to go, and you are sent just as Jesus was sent to us.

You are sent not to teach but to learn: learn to be meek and humble of heart. That is just what Jesus has asked us to do: “Learn of me for I am meek and humble of heart.”

You are sent to serve and not to be served: Go to serve with a humble heart. Never escape the hard work. Be always the first one to do it.

Go to be a cause of joy to your communities.

Go with zeal and love for the poor.

Go in haste, like Our Lady, to serve.

Choose the hardest thing. Go with a humble heart, with a generous heart. Don’t go with ideas that don’t fit into our way of life: with big, big ideas about theology and what you would like to teach, but rather go to learn and to serve.

Share what you have received, with a humble heart.

Go to the poor with great tenderness. Serve the poor with tender, compassionate love.

Say yes to peace with your tongue. Close your mouth rather than speaking a word which will hurt anyone.

Go to give yourselves without any reservation. Give yourselves wholeheartedly, unreservedly

~Bl. Theresa of Calcutta
Dear Mother Teresa, pray for us to be as much in love with Jesus as you were!  Amen.

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