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The poor are great people
The poor do not need our sympathy and our pity.
The poor need our love and compassion.
They give us much more than we give them.
During a terrible time when millions of refugees fled to India,
we asked for help and many volunteers came and spent some months with us,
just loving, serving, giving tender love and care to our people.
On their departure, they said they had received much more than they had given.
In Calcutta, some time ago, we went out at night and picked up four or five people from
the street and took them to our Home for the Dying. One of them was in a very bad
condition and I wanted to take care of her myself. I did for her all that my love could
do. When I put her into bed, she took hold of my hand and there was such a wonderful smile
on her face. She said one word: "Thank you" and she died. She gave me much more
than I had given her. She gave me her grateful heart and I thought: what would I have done
in her place? My answer was: I would have tried to draw some attention to myself, I would
have said: I am hungry or I am cold or I am dying. But she, she was so great, she was so
beautiful in her giving. The poor are great people.
If you pray with words, let them be filled with love and come from the deepest of your heart. Pray with great respect and trust. Fold your hands, close your eyes en lift up your heart to the Lord. Let your prayer be a pure sacrifice to God. Do not pray loud and not too quiet. Pray simply. Let your heart speak. Praise the Lord with all your soul. Words will come like that from the bottom of your heart and you will find joy in prayer. Stop once in a while by a word and think it over, let it sink to the bottom of your heart. Keep them during the rest of the day: they will bring you peace.
Till the end of my days Jesus is for me:
my God
my beloved
my life
my only love
my All in all
my highest Good
Jesus I love you with all my heart
Jesus I love you with all my soul
I gave Him everything,
even my sins and He took me in His tender love for His bride.
From now on to the end of my days
I am the bride of my crucified bridegroom.
Amen.
ABOUT LOVE...
Don't think that love, to be true, has to be extraordinary. What is
necessary is to continue to love. How does a lamp burn, if it is not by the continuous
feeding of little drops of oil? When there is no oil, there is no light and the bridegroom
will say: "I do not know you". Dear friends, what are our drops of oil in our
lamps? They are the small things from every day life: the joy, the generosity, the little
good things, the humility and the patience. A simple thought for someone else. Our way to
be silent, to listen, to forgive, to speak and to act. That are the real drops of oil that
make our lamps burn vividly our whole life. Don't look for Jesus far away, He is not
there. He is in you, take care of your lamp and you will see Him."
Mother Teresa.
19 june 1983
"Who do you say I am" (Matthew 16:15)
You are God.
You are God from God.
You are begotten, not made.
You are One in Substance with the Father.
You are the Son of the Living God.
You are the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.
You are One with the Father.
You are in the Father from the beginning:
all things were made by You and the Father.
You are the Beloved Son in Whom the Father is well pleased.
You are the Son of Mary, conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary.
You were born in Bethlehem.
You were wrapped in swaddling clothes by Mary and put in the manger full of straw.
You were kept warm by the breath of the donkey who carried your Mother with you in her
womb.
You are the son of Joseph, the Carpenter as known by the people of Nazareth.
You are an ordinary man without much learning, as judged by the learned people of Israel.
Jesus is the Word made flesh.
Jesus is the Bread of Life.
Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the Cross.
Jesus is the Sacrifice offered at the Holy Mass for the sins of the world and mine.
Jesus is the Word - to be spoken.
Jesus is the Truth - to be told.
Jesus is the Way - to be walked.
Jesus is the Light - to be lit.
Jesus is the Life - to be lived.
Jesus is the Love - to be loved. Jesus is the Joy - to be shared. Jesus is the Sacrifice -
to be offered. Jesus is the Peace - to be given. Jesus is the Bread of Life - to be eaten.
Jesus is the Hungry - to be fed. Jesus is the Thirsty - to be satiated. Jesus is the Naked
- to be clothed.
Jesus is the Homeless - to be taken in.
Jesus is the Sick - to be healed.
Jesus is the Lonely - to be loved.
Jesus is the unwanted - to be wanted.
Jesus is the Leper - to wash his wounds.
Jesus is the Beggar - to give him a smile.
Jesus is the Drunkard - to listen to him.
Jesus is the Mental - to protect him.
Jesus is the Little One - to embrace him.
Jesus is the Blind - to lead him.
Jesus is the Dumb - to speak for him.
Jesus is the Crippled - to walk with him.
Jesus is the Drug Addict - to befriend him.
Jesus is the Prostitute - to remove from danger and befriend her.
Jesus is the Prisoner - to be visited.
Jesus is the Old - to be served.
To me -
Jesus is my God
Jesus is my Spouse
Jesus is my Life
Jesus is my only Love
Jesus is my All in All
Jesus is my Everything.
Jesus, I love with my whole heart, with my whole being.
I have given Him all, even my sins and He has espoused me to Himself in tenderness and
love.
Now and for life I am the Spouse of my Crucified Spouse..
Amen.
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