Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Judith Anne

Not sure what your post is telling us, but Christians possess a mind renewed by the Holy Spirit to understand God and His free gift of salvation.

Clearly, Mother Teresa is to be pitied. Her mind had not been renewed by the truth of Christ risen. She was bereft and without the indwelling Holy Spirit, according to her own words for 50 years right up until her death.


6,906 posted on 09/24/2010 11:13:52 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6903 | View Replies ]


To: Dr. Eckleburg
She was bereft and without the indwelling Holy Spirit, according to her own words for 50 years right up until her death.

Can you provide a source for that statement, or are you twisting people's words again?

6,908 posted on 09/24/2010 11:57:55 AM PDT by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6906 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Eckleburg
"Clearly, Mother Teresa is to be pitied."

Judge not lest ye be judged. Mother Teresa is not to be judged by the likes of you and found wanting. She has been judged by God and is to be loved, emulated, and venerated. Of course she had doubts, she was after all human. In spite of her human frailties and doubts she never gave in to those doubts and daily gave herself to the work of God and those in need.

Just as true courage is doing what is right and needed in spite of fear, true faith is doing what is right and needed in spite of doubts. Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. Its not what we did yesterday that assures our salvation, it is what we do next.

The most damning of Mother Teresa's statements has been quoted below:

"Jesus has a very special love for you," she assured Van der Peet. "[But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand."

We don't know what triggered Mother Teresa's despair, but it's not hard to guess. Her ministry in India was to care for the most wretched on earth, those forsaken by all others; the discarded, the destitute, the forgotten, the sick, and those dying without love or God. Please tell me which saints never had moments of doubt. Even Christ Himself anguished and doubted at Gethsemane. I will not pity Mother Teresa and will continue to look to Mother Teresa for inspiration and examples of Beatitude. Those things I will not to find in black hearted judgmental bloggers. The conditions in India and other similar locations still exist today. What are you doing about them?

6,924 posted on 09/25/2010 10:35:11 AM PDT by Natural Law (A lie is a known untruth expressed as truth. A liar is the one who tells it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6906 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson