Virgil Believes In Mother Theresa

Jesus, Mary, Buddha, & Kwan Yin deserve the utmost respect and are worthy of emulation. Still, the lady of the day is Mother Theresa. She faced the world and its horrors without believing that a spook was taking care of and guiding her. She did her best to alleviate the suffering of others in spite of her own pain and without expecting a reward or fearing punishment. “. . . for the last nearly half-century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever . . .That absence seems to have started at almost precisely the time she began tending the poor and dying in Calcutta, and - except for a five-week break in 1959 - never abated. Although perpetually cheery in public, the Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep and abiding spiritual pain. In more than 40 communications, many of which have never before been published, she bemoans the ‘dryness,’ ‘darkness,’ ‘loneliness’ and ‘torture’ she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. ‘The smile,’ she writes, is ‘a mask’ or ‘a cloak that covers everything.’ Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. ‘I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God - tender, personal love,’ she remarks to an adviser. ‘If you were [there], you would have said, 'What hypocrisy.'’” Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith By DAVID VAN BIEMA in Time.
Mother, showing us your human tortured side may be your greatest gift. I guess that we're all hypocrites to some degree. If you were one, I wish we had a few million more like you.