Sept. 5, 2018: Mother Teresa
Sept. 5, 2018: Mother Teresa
(You are invited to Special feast day mass for Mother Teresa with Bishop Michael Duca at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Sept. 5, 2018, 5PM located 749 East Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70802)
I Give What I Have
Deep down in every human heart there is a knowledge of God. And deep down in every human heart there is the desire to communicate with Him. And therefore, the word that I speak… is true, because I am a Catholic, and a sister totally [consecrated] in vows to God. Naturally I can only give what I have. But I think everybody… knows deep down in their hearts that there is God, and that we have been created to love and to be loved; that we have not been created to be just a number in the world. But we have been created for some purpose, and that purpose is to be love, to be compassion, to be goodness, to be joy, to serve.
You see that in animal life [even], there is love between animals, there is the love of the mother animal to the little child, to the little animal to which she has given birth; it is engraved in us, that love. So I don’t think it is difficult for you; you can express that in your own words; but you know very well that every single… person… knows that God IS love, and that God loves them, otherwise they would not be, they would not exist; and that God wants us to love one another as He loves us. We all know! Everybody knows—how God loves you. Each one of us knows. Because otherwise we cannot exist. The proof of our existence is that God—somebody who is higher, somebody who is greater—is holding us, protecting us.
Life is life, and the most beautiful gift of God to a human family, to the nation, and to the whole world [is] the child. And therefore if the child is born a disabled child, we cannot destroy it. We cannot destroy the unborn child; we cannot destroy the born child. If your parents did not want you, you would not be here today. If my mother didn’t want me, there would be no Mother Teresa. So I think it is good that our parents wanted us. And it is for us to help our people. If a mother is not able to take care of that deserted child, it is for you and for me to help them to take care of that child. That is the gift of God to that family.
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
