Mother Theresa

I don't know if you saw the recent AP story about Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta. Her biographer is claiming that after her initial visions of Jesus and her mandate from Him to serve the poor, she went through the last three decades of her life or so without any feeling of closeness to Jesus. At one point, the article claims that after all the good she had done, she felt like she had nothing because she had lost her closeness to Jesus. The spiritual dryness or 'dark night of the soul' that Mother Theresa felt was surprising to me. I know how dedicated she was to daily prayer, and how she insisted that all her sisters be faithful to a daily hour of meditation and to daily Mass. Who would have known, if what her biographer is saying is true, that she persisted in her love and service by the simple commitment of her will to follow through on what she had been asked to do by our Lord, without any further encouragement or consolations from Him. I'll be interested to see further comment on this story. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INDIA_MOTHER_TERESA?SITE=ILSPR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

I'm headed to Benedictine College tomorrow (www.benedictine.edu) to try to meet some people on campus to begin vocation ministry there. Please pray for a fruitful day. Tomorrow night, perhaps the Royals game vs. Detroit, if the weather is tolerable.

Also, I got a facebook recently after reading about a priest who thinks it is important to be present there! I don't really know what I am getting into, but I have 8 friends so far!