Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light - The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta by Mother Teresa Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light - The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Book Review: A beautiful Work
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most beautiful, moving, and inspired books that I have read in a long time. Father Brian Kolodiejchuk has done an excellent job in editing these letters together and in providing commentary to this work. This book can be thought of as a spiritual biography of Mother Teresea. Readers are given an intimate look at the her life, her work, and her holiness.
The book is easy to read, and readers (both Catholic and Protestant) will be inspired by the way she lived her life and by her devotion to Christ. I never really understood before what an extraordinary person Mother Teresea was before reading this book. Now I know how special she was, and I will go out of my way to recommend this book to others.
Book Review: No One Knows Suffering Until You Meet It Like Mother
Summary: 4 Stars
Truly no one knew more of suffering than Mother who gave of herself to the poorest of the poor with true love and care. Mother is known for her heroic faith and selfeless service to the poor but few have met the real Mother behind the publicity and reputation. She struggled with her faith as we come to know in this book that reveals her inner darkness, loneliness, and, trimph over her struggle in faith. Don't miss it, read for yourself and know that we all struggle with our faith now and then even the most imporant saints like Mother. Oh! Mother, pray for us in Heaven.Book Review: The Greatest of These is Love
Summary: 5 Stars
In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul reminds followers of Christ that though faith and hope are important if we are to follow Christ, love is even more important. Christ himself explains to the Pharisees that the two greatest commandments are to LOVE the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind and to LOVE your neighbor as yourself. In his epistle, James explains to followers that faith without love is dead.
Too many times as Christians we want the easy way out. We want to be wealthy and enjoy the fruits of this world and still spend eternity with the Creator and His Son, and yet it is the ultimate selfishness to hoard wealth while so many of our brothers and sisters in Christ suffer needlessly. The type of love Christ describes to the Pharisees demands that we do more, so much more, and in Mother Teresa we have an example of just how much more is possible.
Mother Teresa understood that Christ's call to pick up one's cross and follow was not a suggestion but a command. She understood that Christ did not suffer so that we didn't have to, but rather Christ suffered because this is what His Father, our Father, demanded of Him, just as He demands it of each and every one of us. Our suffering alone could not save us from sin, but when modeled after Christ's suffering at Calvary, it is the ultimate expression of love for the Father, and such love is the path of true salvation.
Book Review: I know this to be true...
Summary: 5 Stars
I feel that Mother Teresa's private confessions may show us an example of how the deepest doubt may still illuminate the path, if we have even that small seed of faith. To have doubts and questions will still allow the door of our minds and hearts to remain open for the light, not closed in preconceived and predigested dogma. Although I am sad that her wish to have her materials destroyed upon her death was not carried out... I am also overjoyed to be able to have them available.Book Review: Lost Interest
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this book for my wife, because we both believe that Mother Teresa was a great Servant of God and we heard so many good things about this book. So my wife started to read it very enthused and was captivated by what was written but she said that once you get towards the middle of the book she lost complete interest in the book, it sort of got a little bit boring.