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?
As we've seen dozens of times, Roman Catholics do not understand that verse or its context. We are most certainly to judge right from wrong according to the spiritual discernment given to us.
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.
The evidence of her own words denies your opinion. She is to be pitied because her own words tell us of her lack of faith, denial of God and Christ, and her emotional distress.
Not much to emulate or venerate there.
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.
Of course she "gave in to her doubts." She gave in to her doubts by denying Christ and God. If that's not "giving in to her doubts," nothing is.
You are missing the most important fact in Mother Teresa's life. She did good work, but she most certainly did NOT "daily gave herself to the work of God." She denied God. She did the work for her own satisfaction or because she had nothing else to do or because she felt moved by the plight of the less-fortunate, but she did not "give herself to the work of God."
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.
Read the Bible. "Everything not of faith is sin." While her work no doubt helped a lot of people, it is meaningless if it isn't done in the name of Christ.
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.
Amen. And what did Mother Teresa "do next?"
For over 40 years until she died she doubted God, denied Christ, refused to pray and generally was without faith.
That is not to be emulated or venerated or praised. She is to be pitied. Her only hope is that she was given faith before she died. And none of us will know whether was rescued or not.
Did God tell you that Himself?