[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

All of us are praying for an early sainthood of our mother,´´ she told nuns and volunteers who gathered to offer morning prayer at Mother Teresa´s tomb. ``We feel her absence very much physically. But spiritually she is always with us and guiding us in our work.´´

Cut from the article about an excorsism being done on Mother Teresa before she died. This was said by the nun who took her place.

Two questions. Why would they gather at her tomb for morning prayers? How can she be with anyone and spiritually guiding them?

Becky

[D-fendr]

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[cookcounty]

"All of us are praying for an early sainthood of our mother (Theresa)

She's already a Saint. I've never understood what seems to me the Catholic obsession with Official Sainthood, especially praying to the saints. Mother Theresa is wonderful, but in relative terms, compared with Jesus' compassion, she's a hard-hearted piece of granite.

Why would anyone pray less to God and direct their prayers to the saints instead? I sincerely wonder if God isn't "insulted" by all these indirect prayers.

I mean, it's nice to honor those who have lived exemplary lives of faith, but some of my Catholic friends talk incessantly about St. Anthony or St. Jude or St. Christopher etc., etc., etc, but for Jesus, they have not a word, unless it's as an expletive. This is SO very common that I wonder why the Catholic Church doesn't (at least to my limited knowledge) take corrective action.

[D-fendr]

Why would you visit anyone's grave? How can spirit become finite?

[dadwags]

Becky, I can't proof text this but some of the "caddie "scholars can prove that the N.T. shows that Christians don't die when their bodies quit . They just move to a different phase of existance ,waiting for the Ressurection . I could go on about purgatory and my personal view of it, but I'll catch that later. I have to quit typing now so i can do some spousal foot-rubbing duties (^_^)