Bl. Mothere Teresa

For I see Christ in you

We all know who Mother Teresa is. We idolize her so much in her great love to Christ. Once asked by a sick man that she is serving “Mother why are you doing this to me, I don’t know you and you don’t know me, what it is for you that you do this?” and Mother Teresa answer with great serenity “for I see Christ in you. I am not doing this just for you it is for him I'm loving so much.” Mother Teresa is an image of what is to fall in love with Christ. We all idolized and idolizing her because of her union with God.

But now letters of Mother Teresa to her spiritual Director come out making us realize that Mother Teresa the one that we idolized of great union with Christ experience a great absence of her lover for so many years. Did she lie when she said “I see Jesus in you”? What does she mean about it? If she felt that she was abandon by her lover what moved her to continue doing the great deeds she had shown us? many think that we were wrong about her? Is she really a Saint how come she was abandoned by Christ?

It was true love that moved mother Teresa. She had shown us the real action of loving and she defined what love is. Out of her love to Christ she accepted the vocation that God has given to her. One of her letter explain everything “ I think this is my vocation and I know if I become a Saint I am a Saint outside the gate of heaven where there is darkness so that I may be a light for the people who are still in the dark.”

She never lie but she just lived out the Gospel "what you have done to your brothers you have done it to me." She is like a wife waiting for the return of her husband. While waiting she is preparing, doing things as an offering to his husband when he came.

It was great and deep faith that moved her. Even she could not see Christ she still hold to her faith knowing that even she could not see him she knows that he is there. remember the words of Christ in the cross "My God, my God why have you abandon me?"

We are not wrong in saying that she is a Saint for she indeed live out the faith which we are all called to follow.

Mother Teresa helped me to remember my vocation as Christian. I remembered that I am called to search, to look for Christ and by knowing him I may love him all the more and be a light to individuals who are in the dark. I most be the "emmanuel" for all.