Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta

Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta

by Mother Teresa

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404 pages~6.7 hr readPublished by Gramercy BooksPublished 1997-01-01

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  • You're drawn to spiritual biography and want to understand the inner lives of religious figures beyond their public image.
  • You've felt disconnected from faith or struggled with doubt and want to know that even revered mystics experienced spiritual desolation.
  • You're interested in how extraordinary people maintain purpose and compassion whilst wrestling with profound personal suffering.

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  • You're looking for an uplifting, straightforward hagiography rather than a complex portrait of struggle and spiritual crisis.
  • You prefer narrative-driven books with vivid storytelling. This is primarily letters and reflections, which can feel fragmentary.
  • You have little interest in Christian spirituality or contemplative theology, as both are central to understanding her journey.

About this book

This work presents the private writings and reflections of Mother Teresa, revealing her inner spiritual life. Throughout her service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became recognized worldwide as an icon of compassion across religions. Her work caring for the sick, the dying, and others in need gained widespread acclaim. However, little has been publicly known about her own spiritual experiences and internal struggles. Compiled by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C.—who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years and serves as postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of the Mother Teresa Center—this collection brings together letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades. Nearly all of these writings are published here for the first time. The letters chronicle her spiritual journey, including periods of profound desolation, and reveal confidences she shared only with her closest advisors. They portray her as a mystic whose inner life was characterized by intense charity and whose faith was tested through what she described as a dark night of the soul.

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