Her Agony.  

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Biema, David van

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Time Magazine vol. 170 no. 09 (Sep. 2007), page 26.
Topik: Mother Teresa; God; Religion; Faith; Self-contradiction

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A decade after Mother Teresa's death, her secret letters show that she spent almost 50 years without sensing the presence of God in her life. What does her experience teach us about the value of doubt? On Dec. 11, 1979, Mother Teresa, the "Saint of the Gutters," went to Oslo. Dressed in her signature blue-bordered sari and shod in sandals despite below-zero temperatures, the former Agnes Boaxhiu received that ultimate worldly accolade, The Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance lecture, Teresa, whose Missionaries of Charity had grown from a one-woman folly in Calcutta in 1948 into a global beacon of self-abnegating care, delivered the kind of message the world had come to expect from her. Yet less than three months earlier, in a letter to a spiritual confidant, the Rev. Michael van der Peet, that is only now being made public, she wrote with weary familiarity of a different Christ, an absent one. "Jesus has a very special love for you.. [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 tounge moes [in prayer] but does not speak.. I want you to pray for me--that I let Him have [a] free hand." The two statements, 11 weeks apart, are extravagantly dissonant. The first is typical of the woman the world thought it knew. The second sounds as thought it had wandered in from some 1950s existentialist drama. Together they suggest a starting potrait in self-contradiction.

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