The Fruit of Silence is Prayer.
The Fruit of Prayer is Faith.
The Fruit of Faith is Love.
The Fruit of love is service.
The fruit of service is peace.
Just read these lines by One of the most inspired face of humanity, Mother Teresa, commonly known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
Mother Teresa is undoubtedly one of the greatest human beings and Christians witnessed in our time. She was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje in former Yogoslavia and went to India as a missionary nun in 1929 and lived all her life in Calcutta, a congested city full of slums. Only at her death in 1997 did many Indians come to know that she was a European, because she lived a life of Indians better than Indians themselves.
Yesterday Pop Frances declared other Teresa of Calcutta, a saint. This news has been circulating on the internet since yesterday. So, I wanted to read her religious views, that was quite surprising for me.
One of the most famous words are
"I am told God lives in me — and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul.”
Her letters revealed that, except for one short period, Teresa had been afflicted with a deep sense of God’s absence for the last half-century of her life. Such was her unflagging dedication to the work she’d undertaken for God that most of the world was completely unsuspecting of her spiritual darkness.
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