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To: Arthur McGowan
Yeah. That Mother Theresa. She didn’t have a relationship with Jesus, did she?

I remember reading her actual words where she admitted she did not have a relationship with Jesus...She went for years being in the dark spiritually...I understand that while being a very caring person, she never led a single soul to Jesus Christ...

55 posted on 06/21/2014 8:24:06 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

IMHO what Mother Theresa was experiencing was separation from God. God often gives souls who are sincerely searching a relationship with Him moments of union and love and then sometimes years of feeling separation. This increases the longing for Him. Her admitting this in her book is very possibly due to her humility. She didn’t consider herself a great saint or anything of that nature.

Consider the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector, the Pharisee considered himself a very holy person, and the tax collector beat on his chest in lamentation that he was a sinner, and begged God for mercy.


67 posted on 06/21/2014 9:24:04 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Iscool

Nonsense. She went for years without perceptible consolation in prayer. That’s not the same thing as “not having a relationship with Jesus.”

As for her “never having led a soul to Christ,” I have a two-word answer: Malcolm Muggeridge. And, oh, several million other people.

You need to get some info about the Catholic Church from somewhere other than Jack Chick pamphlets.


84 posted on 06/21/2014 10:40:46 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Iscool
To her it seemed to be “whatever”

"If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept" (from Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work , by Desmond Doig, p. 156, as quoted by Dave Hunt, Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist , p. 149).

93 posted on 06/21/2014 4:20:41 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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