From the book Mother Teresa of Calcutta. . .
In order to correctly understand the importance of Mother Teresaś charism, her extraordinary spiritual gift, we need to bear in mind that her vocation was not directed toward the poor in general, but rather to the ¨poorist of the poor,¨ those who could not help themselves and had no one to take care of them.
Mother Teresa was certainly not a guru who expected everybody to imitate her; she had great respect for other vocations. “If you are called to educate young people, then that is your vocation.
That is what God wants from you.¨ And I often heard her say this simple sentence: ¨What you do, I cannot do. But together we can do something beautiful for God.¨
Moreover, Mother Teresa saw poverty neither as an ideal in itself nor as a divinely ordained destiny. God did not create poverty. We created poverty because we do not share with one another.¨ ~from the book Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Augustine Institute, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, 2011) 37
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