Three books detail Mother Teresa's 'thirst,' teachings and impact
Much has been written in the past months concerning the
interior darkness and long periods of spiritual dryness in the life of Blessed
Mother Teresa, revealed through her private correspondence in the book
"Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light," by Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, a
Missionaries of Charity priest who is the postulator of her sainthood cause.
Both the secular press and scholars alike have delved into the meaning of her
letters and the long periods in her life when she no longer felt the presence
of Jesus.
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In "Mother Teresa's Secret Fire," Father Joseph
Langford, a Missionaries of Charity priest and companion of Mother Teresa since
the early 1970s, shares his personal encounters with Mother Teresa and sheds
light on two words which can sum up her life: I thirst.
It is the thirst of Jesus on the cross that became Mother
Teresa's own thirst and she spent the last 50 or so years of her life trying to
satiate this thirst through her service to the poorest of the poor. It is this
thirst that is at the heart of Father Langford's book.