A rich lady at a party asked Mother Teresa “What do u do for a living?” Mother said “I pick up starving people in the streets of Calcutta.” Rich lady said “I wouldn’t do that for all the money in the world.” Mother said “neither would I, but I do it for love.”
i've always been thinking why i never really loved anyone especially my own parents and siblings in such a way that i would care for their needs and interests... now i know i am devoid of love and need to pray earnestly for the gift love from God... tq Bishop Barron 🙏
❤. I have been having exactly the same thoughts lately about my family and those I claim to love. To love is to serve. Do I serve them? I do not think that I have. Mother Teresa would say to someone like me: ‘well then, do you really love them?’ This Saint is beginning to show me my family failings. The things I should have done. The things I should do if I truly love someone. It has been a sobering experience. The needs and interests of others… it is so important.
I don't think any of us deserve to criticize Mother Theresa until we have followed God's Word as closely as she did, for as long as she did. Of course the devil bringing liars and slanderers would attack the Church and her saints.
They were right to question her sainthood. Questions are the weapon against falsehood. Would you deny people this weapon? BTW: Do you remember what the name Michael means?
Blasphemous! Necromancy. People wake up from the lies of the vatican and its wealth which does nothing to help the poor, only to destroy it., especially the evil jesuits.
It is easy to love when you see beauty, abundance, goodness. But what is moving in the life of Mother Teresa is that she was able to love in the middle of poverty, dirt, sinfulness of people. ❤️ Jesus please let us see your heart in every person we meet
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God. Bishop :-Fulton J. Sheen
I’m not Catholic, but the teaching that you gave about feeling the emptiness and absence of God is so insightful. Thank you father for such a wonderful video.
Great Sister Diaz. We serve one God. I wasn't raised Catholic. Our faith in God started from Catholic Church foundation and Mother Teresa I think of all women as gifts from God because Mary birth Jesus our Lord and Savior. For women who don't have children we can adopt/ mentor children just like she did.
What an epiphany for me today, to understand that God living in me includes part of that crucified Jesus that says "why have you forsaken me." Thank You. My spiritual journey just took another step in understanding.
I was afraid of that. The canonisation of MT has led to the self-justifaction of of those leading a life devoid of the Grace of God. Their spiritual journey is over. MT's was over after the Calcutta riots in 1946. She never got back on track, even after 50 years of trying extremely hard to regain her faith. A faithful life is marked by a succession of Divine Revelations. Eventually God will present you with His ultimate revelation: that of his non-existence. It is a rite of passage, a graduation into moral adulthood, a final calling, and the ultimate test: live without counting on God, and as if there is no afterlife outside of the lives of your progeny and your charges. "Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachtani" is the pang of pain that announces your being set free. You don't want to feel that for 50 years on end, but you will if you refuse to accept the gift of freedom+responsibility. MT is a perfect example of how NOT to relate God. If you want to know a real saint, read up on St. Damian of Molokai.
So a faithful life following God leads to atheism and the dismissal of all supernatural truths? After the "pang of pain" that is the beginning of psalm 22 (which by the way ends with a reminder of the greatness of God,) Jesus ends his mission with the words " 'Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.'" He wasn't set free? He didn't reach moral adulthood? Isn't a real "graduation" test to hold the hope of God even when no proof is given to you and his voice who the day before you "heard" clearly has suddenly disappeared, even if it took 50 years of hope? I feel like saying "oh now I get it! No God! I must become an existentialist and substitute with some amorphous will to live" is the ultimate spiritual failing, but hopefully I misinterpreted your comment since I doubt saint Damian did that. Please could you explain yourself better?
Iacopo Donati "Isn't a real "graduation" test to hold the hope of God even when no proof is given to you?" No. It is behaving like a dog wasting away on top of the grave of his master. Self-pity masquerading as loyalty, sycophancy disguised as piety, nostalgia passing for hope. God isn't as cruel as you are making him out to be. Who would abandon a loved one, expecting that loved one to hope for His uncertain return? Do you realise what you are saying?
@@Sophiedorian0535 He doesn't, these things happen after you reach a closeness with Him that you do not need consolations to be affirmed that He is working in you and through you. You serve for the fact that He is the ultimate good and there is nothing as great as to do as He would and asks of you. It is to be so much in Christ to take up His Cross and to share in its salvic work. Your suffering works for the salvation of others and alongside the Cross of Christ, you are emptied and Christ is filled.
@@Sophiedorian0535 it's called the dark night of the soul, many many saints experienced it and is an state acquired at a high level of spiritual realization send as a test of love from God
"Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!" Saint John of the Cross
"Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. .... And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love." ~ 1 Corinthians 13: 8,13
Seven years ago, I was volunteering once a week at a Missionaries of Charity home in the archdiocese of Baltimore. The ministry is primarily as an drug abuse facility / AIDS hospice. It was very challenging for me personally, culturally, socially, and spiritually. The sisters live a very disciplined life: daily liturgy of the hours, daily Mass, daily Eucharistic adoration, provide transportation to and from the hospital, medication dispensary, arrange for / organize / lead AA & NA meetings for the residents, provide food, meals, clothing, laundry for themselves and the residents, arrange pastoral visits / internships for seminarians and consecrated religious; arrange field trips for the residents; manage a lay Missionaries of Charity weekly group. It was impressive to see everything they accomplished each day, week, month.
When I heard of Saint Teresa of Calcutta being declared a Saint by Pope Francis, I was filled with joy and happiness. Despite of what Christopher Hitchens about her, I disregard it. Some could argue that her works of mercy were fruitless.
Could someone make a video of Hitchens showing all the good work he did for the poor, sick & dying people of India, or how he went into leper colonies...Thought not.
Dakarius Ashby koo. th-cam.com/video/PrYnvZqLN4o/w-d-xo.html Check out this link. This ex nun talks about how Hitchens changed his mind about Mother Teresa. He put the blame on the money issue on corrupt Vatican officials.
+Bit Phreak More likely that people have been propagandized by an nonintellectual polemist like Hitchens and just take what he said at face value. I am not shocked that people here have no idea what her activities actually were, what the Church teaches on spiritual poverty and desolation, and any number of other things because 'skeptics' aren't skeptical at all but religious in their nonbelief.
+Anthony P -- You don't have to be a "disciple of Hitchens" to find Mother Teresa's story disturbing. Mother Teresa suffered many symptoms of depression, yet was never treated for it. Instead, she was exorcised of demons by the order of her archbishop. All the research that I have read indicates that a "dark night of the soul" and a"clinical depression" are impossible to separate apart (the first one is almost always accompanied by the second) so a treating physician becomes obligated to treat the medical condition (depression), regardless of what people want to call it (Teresa's confessor apparently believed that Teresa was clinically depressed). There are therefore many philosophical and ethical questions regarding Teresa's depression, why it wasn't treated, and why theologians who don't experience depression dare to call it a "gift" of the Holy Spirit.
Everyone struggles in someway on their journey with Jesus!!!! We shouldn’t judge St. Teresa of Calcutta!!!!! Her life of Love and service to the poor is an example we should all pay attention to and learn from!!!!! It really disturbs me to read negative comments about her struggles and I for one choose to try to learn and imitate her examples.....
British journalist Christopher Hitchens said Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta was nothing but a scandalous woman and her works of mercy and hope were meaningless. However, I disagree. As a 4th degree Knight, I believe that her works of mercy and love and hope were meaningful. So I say, God bless her. Amen.
4th degree knight who took the Jesuit oath to kill and mame people who weren't catholic? I know all about the oath. Let your friends read the oath. I bet you can't.
Your a refreshing breeze in the stagnant air in the valley of tears. I see your list of talks and in between you tube has stuck the vile creatures penn and teller who are just so full of themselves with hate they lash out at anything good. Is this to compare or just to try and erase all the good you do? I often wonder if your love of God just threatens all the haters. You bear a heavy load, but you are still an awesome priest, bishop, whatever your title may happen to be, God Bless you always.
Thank you Father Barron. Just a theory. Spiritual darkness comes to everyone: including Jesus as displayed in the garden. But the smile on Mother Teresa’s face, though momentary, was a sign and glimpse of what true happiness and joy that awaits us and Mother Teresa in heaven
I read "Come Be My Light" a while back and as I was reading the book I could feel Jesus presence in Mother Teresa, and I said "She couldn't feel his love because she was the walking Jesus" The people she touched encountered Jesus...and she was looking for that encounter with Jesus...and didn't not know He was in here, but she know now! She denied her self to that point...a Saint!
I'm not worried about Hitchens and his ridiculous opinions. he's in the bliss of nothingness and purposelessness now in that he is dead. Regardless of his opinions, Mother Teresa left a legacy that the world will never forget unlike Hitchens who left his message of purposelessness.
+misti2 "Regardless of his opinions, Mother Teresa left a legacy that the world will never forget " The world will never forget her dubious finances and certainly not the thousands of dead's she was responsable for.
P.G. Burgess she did "something"...the Hitchens person was a person...who made a living and income on preaching (same as the religious) that he was nothing. Yay.
Opinions have nothing to do with it. He was there. The mayor of India even backed up and had proof of what was going on. The volunteers witnessed what went on there.
God bless Saint Teresa of Calcutta and all those who love her❤ She did not just talk the talk. She walked the walk. She understood the words of Jesus: ‘follow me.’ Actions. Not just words.
The nasty comments about Mother Teresa being espoused by people are disgusting. It appears Hitchens was quite successful in smearing this woman. What is wrong with giving your life to loving the poorest of the poor and dying?
Do u think feeding 1000s of people per day is free ? Do u think housing 1000s of people is free ? Do u think buying many many buildings is free ? Do u think travel for 4000 nuns is free ?
She reused needles. Didn't sterilize them. No decent pain meds. Wouldn't let family members visit. No decent bedding. I could go on. How is that helping the poor dying? If that was my relative or friend, I certainly wouldn't treat them that way. Where is the dignity and compassion? I sure didn't see any. If that happened here there would be a ton of lawsuits. I can guarantee that for sure. She sure took the money from that billionaire who later was arrested for fraud. The money went to the greedy vatican to go along with the wealth they already have. The Vatican owns at least 179 million acres of land across the world. Probably more now. They keep getting richer while the poor get poorer. I have no use for Mother Teresa. She is a fraud and a scam artist. I am so sick of hearing her say, "for the love of God, for the poor." May God have mercy on her wretched soul. Hitchens exposed her for what she really was. Nothing wrong with that.
@@PInk77W1 No it's not free, but she recived a check for close to one billion dollars. It sure didn't go where it was supposed to. Instead it went to the Vatican bank. If I received that money, it sure as hell wouldn't of gone to the vatican bank! Not one penny of it! I would have started building a hospital immediately! That didn't happen either unfortunately. So sad.🤑😤 😢
Reading through some of these responses is really sad. A saint is a person who is flawed just like the rest of us. The difference is that they know it and they try to do their best to avoid sin. They also follow Christ's teachings, do as He instructs them, and be humble(which doesn't mean let people walk all over you). We are all called to be saints, some are called to be big saints so that the rest of us have role models to follow. So instead of us saying, it is to hard to live the way Christ wants me too, we can say, with Christ, I can try too. People don't create miracles, God works through people to create miracles. Why for some and not others? Only He knows, but He allows suffering so that we may unite our suffering with His on the cross to help save souls from eternal damnation. Why? Because sin is graver than we realize and to sacrifice ourselves through our suffering is the greatest love there is, to lay your life down for another! Why? Because God created each and everyone of us in union with our parents out of pure love! God loves you just the way you are, not your sins. He never stops loving you even when you deny His existence...Jesus said it Himself...those who persecute you do so because they have persecuted me. Remember, God loves you and someday He wants you home.
Hitchens was a terribly shallow thinker. All his "great wit" and "iconoclastic thinking" (yeah right) amounts to destroy what's already there. He's never contributed to anything out of his own creation. Anyone can point fingers and name flaws. The single question that can vaporize any Hitchens is this: "Compared to what?"
What an amazing story of this wonderfully inspirational saint! However, what hope is there for me if such a saintly person has a spiritual darkness for 50 years, and I, at best, a wretched sinner who tries to do the best I can as a devout Catholic, attending church every Sunday, praying every day, saying the rosary often, but falling from Grace every time I turn around...? I don't give up hope, I know God is merciful, but I'm a spiritual 'single celled organism' compared to Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and all others like her. I believe my calling is to be the best Catholic husband & father I can be, and that is my vocation, but wow, am I really making an impact? Do I pass through the eye of the needle to enter the gates of heaven? Anyone else out there feel like this and what advice do you have for a cradle Catholic that only started to embrace his faith at age 30, now almost 48 and still feeling at times like I'm just not 'getting it'?
Dan Tharan I hope your getting it and I'm sure you are, God is love. Have you ever watched John Michael Talbot gospel reflections on TH-cam daily. You might give it a go - hope so . God Bless Albert MacDonald.
Pray a Novena of the Seven Hail Mary Devotion and meditate on Our Lady's Seven Sorrows. Try it from the perspective of a parent towards the end of the Novena. When you say the prayers, go somewhere where you can be alone and focus your whole hearr upon them. And remember that Christ endured all He did for our sake. I am not saying this is some magic sure-fire method, but it certainly sobered me up and set my act straight. Learn to embrace the Crucifixion and you shall find the Resurrection.
Lovely video. I’d like to bless everyone with an inspirational quote of Mother Teresa: “AIDS is just retribution for improper sexual misconduct”. (Washington DC International Health Organisation Lunch Meeting, 1989, long after it was known that anyone could catch AIDS, including children given blood transfusions).
Thank you Bishop you're so insightful and inspiring I wonder if Mother Teresa had such deep sadness as I because of believing lies from the Devil and now understanding that the Holy Spirit lives in us and so Jesus is right here with the spirit of compassion that has given us the spirit of himself on the cross loving his children through Mother Teresa .
To journey through darkness is to seek the light. Our fears and doubts provide the motivation to seek the truth. The dark night is the way to a new day.
But how do you will yourself to love? I'm not talking about a mother's love for a child. I have had moments of love, it was an overwhelming burst of joy, felt deep inside, it was usually for an innocent animal. I am not sure I ever really loved a person. I forgive, even easily, after being hurt, but I can let those that have hurt me go from my life, because after all, if they hurt me, they did not love me, so not so hard to let them go. It's harder to let go of the idea of them, than them, themselves. I can actively choose to forgive them, but I cannot make myself love them. I can say I love them, but I really don't, not like Jesus loved us. Christ saw us as the poor pitiful creatures that we are, the fallen, which we are. He saw inside us to our sins and still He loved us. Is that what I have to do? See their flaws and through eyes of compassion, allow myself to see them without judgement, without resentment, just will myself, in my mind, will the goodness of God for them. I don't know, is that love? If so, I have to practice, which I am willing to do. Maybe I have to start with service, and the will to love follows?
C.S. Lewis did point out that because of love being so recognizably good, one could fall into an idolatrous assumption of seeing love as the "supreme good" and acting immorally in the name of "love" e.g. justifying sexual immorality like infidelity "I'm in love". However this would definitely not fall into the definition of love as "willing the good of the other as the other." Lewis focused on love primarily in its accidents (eros, friendship, and so on) rather than its substance which I think is what your definition is.
+SheepEsquire Love is not greater than God, that is what is important to recognize. Then someone would say God is love. However, if you worship love instead of God you are on a wrong path.
I agree with you completely. And with C.S. Lewis. MT's definition of love lacks a notion of balance and of priority. I don't recognise it as love. She preaches the administering of spiritual caritas INSTEAD OF material caritas. That is faith-healing, voodoo, superstition, shamanism, witchcraft even. If you are in the position to administer both (she had the funding for it, didn't she?), you are enjoined (for the Love of God) to administer the maximum of material caritas (pain medication and curative care) first and offer spiritual caritas ON TOP OF THAT. MT went about the virtue of caritas as wrongly as one possibly could, and caused a lot of unnecessary suffering that way. An example of a recent saint who went about it the right way, I believe was St. Damien of Molokai.
I am a conservative true believing Catholic, and I think highly of most of Bishop Barron's videos, but like so many good Catholics Bishop Barron seems taken in by this woman. He hasn't bothered to check the facts. That was me, too, until recently. Mother Teresa ran a very slipshod operation that did very little to help the destitute and dying. She had nuns with little or no medical training, mats instead of beds, extremely unsanitary facilities, no separation of the contagious from the non-contagious. At first the Missionaries of Charity lacked resources, true, but once they became famous donations poured in. Mother Teresa could have built nice modern hospices with rooms and beds and had her nuns become at least LPNs. She could have done so much. But what did she do with all these donations? No one knows. There never has been a public accounting. The best guess is that the moneyvsits in banks unused. Mother Teresa may have been guilty of an heresy I will call painism, a belief that physical pain is so beautiful that it should not be allevied. While we all must bear crosses, and while most of us must suffer great pain in our final sicknesses, that doesn't mean it doesn't behoove Christians or medical professionals from alleviating that suffering. Note that Mother herself did not die on a mat with untrained nuns in an unsanitary Calcutta hospice---she died in Switzerland with the best medical care money could buy. I do support her campaigns against abortion, contraception, and ecumenical services, and her evangelization efforts and her emphasis on Jesus.
FROM: THE WAY OF DIVINE LOVE - SISTER JOSEFA MENENDEZ A prayer given to Sr. Josefa from our Lord Jesus Christ: "O God most holy and just . . . Father of all clemency and of infinite goodness, Thou who didst create man out of love and through love has made him heir to eternal blessings, if he has sinned against Thee through frailty and if he deserves chastisement, accept the merits of Thy Son who offers Himself to Thee as a Victim of expiation. By those divine merits, forgive sinful men, and deign to reinstate them as heirs of Heaven. Oh My Father pity and mercy for souls". Amen. The Way of Divine Love is in video form on line - especially the FULL narration of His Passion as He dictated it to Sr. Josefa. It is WONDERFUL to view! VERY moving...how I wish All would read this book or view it on line in the videos! God bless you and all dear to your heart.
+Bishop Robert Barron I think that what the critics of Mother Teresa successfully cast doubt on was not her intent, but her competence. So my question is this: What good did she accomplish, and how does it compare to the saintly image of her in peoples minds?
Mother Theresa was a cruel woman. She didn't provide any end of life care. She claimed that suffering would bring the people closer to God. How can you love someone when you want to maximize their suffering?
Bishop Robert Barron, I respect you very much and appreciate all the lessons you so gracefully share with the rest of the world. But I am baffled that you say that too much faith is bad... I know God is always there, and I deep down believe that faith is as infinite as love. I'm almost certain that if everyone had the most faith any human can possibly have, God would be performing miracles through each and every one of us, and it would be Heaven on Earth. I understand there is a reason that the flesh is weak, , but as for faith, I can't think of other thing that it would you but empower you more and more and more. Just like God is absolute Infinity, I believe the blessings would be just as infinite. And if one truly trusts in God with all his/her being, then I honestly feel that there isn't such thing as too much faith. Those are just my thoughts though, I ask God for more faith every day, and I thank Him for keeping me faithful.
I believe Mother Teresa walked the life of Jesus Christ. Christ went to the limits of man's forsakenness to atone for our sins and to get man on the path towards God. So far was the limit that Jesus himself felt the absence of the divine. Likewise, Mother Teresa went to the depths of man's poverty to radiate the presence of God. It's only fitting that she would have felt the same despair that Jesus as man felt; otherwise, she would not have been human. Her life is indeed inspiring.
Jesus also overturned the tables of the moneymakers in the temple. If He was here He today He would do the same to the evil, corrupt, money laundering vatican.
Jesus comes to us in distressing disguise we learnt from Mother Teresa as she worked the streets reaching out to those in distress and approaching death.She would never have not known the Spirit of Jesus in her ministry with her fella Sisters.
This may be unrelated to the video but I need to ask you a question do you think JRR Tolkien could be saint one day please comment back if you can I would really appreciate it:)
+Kevin Farris They are putting GK Chesterton up for sainthood in this article from 2013. Tolkein is mentioned.I don't know if there is enough evidence for his case but one never knows.zenit.org/articles/gk-chesterton-s-cause-for-sainthood-investigation-gets-underway/
I'm not criticizing Mother Teresa, but sometimes we look at those on the world stage as beacons of faith, instead of those living in anonymity. Intellectually, it is crystal clear there is a God; it's the virtues and promises of God that we must learn to take up our cross about.
why do you have to hide the Cross? Is it because of Church ordinance? Personally I don't like especially Bishops hide the Cross instead of using it as a visible witness to Christ's suffering death and resurrection to save humanity, Forgive my ignorance but please hep understand. IAnd I am a loyal follower of you videos.
Saint Teresa, mother to all, pray for us and this deteriorated world. You were a shining light of God's love and message to all. Love to you always for your mission and your example to serve with humility.
Not what she meant, man causes poverty, chemicals in the air we breath and in some of the food we eat...much pain is directly caused by man's greed. Now, when medicine is not available or is not strong enough what is one to do? Embrace the pain, and see it as a way to be purified, as a way to share in the pain Jesus was put through...there are much better medicines today, and if the Sisters can acquire it I'm am most sure they would supply it to people in need. So, it isn't that she found pleasure in people's pain...it was to direct that pain when nothing else could be done about it medically to give up that pain to God as a prayer.
Ah the Catholics just love their saints don't they ! She was so full of love says our Bishop, and love knows no bounds, there can't be enough of it. So much does Jesus love the people of India and Calcutta in particular, that omnipotent He allowed so many humans to live in abject poverty, misery, disease and death, in that place among many others in the world , and then He sends along this sadistic "saint" who also "loved" suffering so much that pain relief was not allowed in her hospice for the dying, whilst the nuns secretly baptised them. If Mother Tereza was a saint, I'm glad I'm just human.
+Byron Hamilton Hi Byron. It's the Catholics, among the other Christians, who claim that God is benevolent. I was merely pointing out that considering all the suffering in the world, and His claimed omnipotence, He does very little about it, indeed nothing, almost as if He weren't there. He didn't even answer our new Saint's prayers, let alone sort out the world's poverty. Sorry if my tone seems snide to you, I'm just speaking frankly.
Tony your always on the internet trying to prove how much smarter you are than all the poor benighted believers you love to attack with your sophomoric "wit". Unfortunately your not that smart and everyone, believers and unbelievers knows it.
John, you have nothing to say except to attack me. I suppose that is par for the RCC course when the criticism of you new "saint" hits home. A mean minded nasty old bigot, in love with suffering as long as it was others doing the suffering. For her own medical care, she had the best. Look up the facts John.
Tony you're right. I lost my temper and attacked you personally. You're on the internet a lot. Belief in a Supreme Intelligence seems quite in tune with the order of the universe as great thinkers from Aristotle to Einstein have pointed out. However, there is also great suffering in the world and you have every right to believe that this Being is indifferent to that suffering. People such as Mother Theresa believe in the goodness of God and they live their lives to bring their vision to others. She went to the people ignored by the rest of us. I expect you have done little to help alleviate that suffering. So maybe you should be less critical of people who do and not worry about the nature of their vision.
In 1997, Mother Teresa underwent an exorcism, mostly because she was experiencing insomnia. Insomnia can be a defining symptom of severe depression, or even psychotic depression. Given the many recent revelations about Mother Teresa's "darkness", which seem to almost exactly fit the DSM-V criteria for severe depression, it seems odd to me that the Bishop would scoff at the idea that Mother Teresa was depressed. It also seems odd to me why the Church would have rather treated her symptoms with exorcism as opposed to modern mental health treatments. Would it have hindered her path to sainthood, if her "darkness" had turned out to be something amenable to modern treatment, and not a gift of the Holy Spirit"? Would a truly happy Mother Teresa, healed of a mental illness, been less qualified for sainthood than the psychologically miserable woman described in recent accounts?
+skjelver one She wasn't a miserable woman, but deeply joyful. One can suffer and still be joyful. If Mother Teresa had asked for therapy, she could have had it. I haven't heard of her making such a request. She suffered in that she could not feel God's presence, yet her faith was such that she knew that God would still be present whether she felt His presence or not.
+skjelver one There is a world of difference between clinical depression and "the dark night of the soul". I am bipolar, but I cannot say that I ever experienced the absence of God like Mother Teresa. To feel the absence of Him so keenly, one must have felt His Presence just as strongly. Many, many saints have gone through this. Now, this is not to say that such spiritual desolation cannot cause depression as the psychiatric world defines it. It may very well do so. But Mother was undergoing something other than a lack of serotonin.
yourbluesmama "I am told that God lives in me, and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul." ~~Mother Teresa
Debra Johnson This IS clinical depression: "I am told that God lives in me, and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul." ~~Mother Teresa
Jesus said "Take up your cross and follow me." He never said we wouldn't suffer. God gives everyone the cross they need to perfect their souls. Mother Teresa's cross was to help her identify with the people she helped who were unloved and forgotten and see the Lord in them and love Him in them. She carried her cross beautifully and faithfully, making her a saint for sure. St. Teresa, pray for us!
"You can't love too much" ... well, just like you said "too much faith becomes credulity", we can also state that "too much love becomes obsession." Can we not? It depends on what you mean by love. You said in this video that love is an act of the will, so then you are saying "you can never act enough of your will?" that sounds odd, and in a certain light, dangerous. Regardless, I don't see anything in this video that would suggest that Mother Teresa actually was the loving, kind person you describe. "she radically loved people" tells us nothing about what she actually did. Her "service to the poor" is stated, but not elaborated on. What service did she actually deliver? Did she give humanitarian aid? Not really. Her "service" was religious in nature. I'm pretty sure the poor would have appreciated medicine, food, and education more, and it would have had a greater impact.
Charles Boulanger, just as the professors of the pro-English Sorbonne had planned to eliminate the Maid for foreign policy reasons in 1431 Cauchon, but it was the Bishop of Beauvais, another Burgundian and English partisan, cunningly pointed out a Biblical law, Deuteronomy 22:5 to burn her. The only means left to accomplish their end was to convict her of heresy. So the Catholic Church did. The Maid had already passed the test for witchcraft, she was a virgin And in the Church’s eyes, the technical reason for her conviction-dressing like a man-was justifiable to burn her. The Catholic Church haaaaa, they are so nice people.
10:29 Only one way to holiness is through Jesus' sacrifice!! Not the cross (When you say cross, you obviously mean works) Romans 6: 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
A rich lady at a party asked Mother Teresa
“What do u do for a living?”
Mother said “I pick up starving people in the streets of Calcutta.”
Rich lady said “I wouldn’t do that for all the money in the world.”
Mother said “neither would I, but I do it for love.”
God transformed my life through Mother Teresa, I am now a lay missionary of charity in her community. Saint Mother Teresa, pray for those in darkness.
i've always been thinking why i never really loved anyone especially my own parents and siblings in such a way that i would care for their needs and interests... now i know i am devoid of love and need to pray earnestly for the gift love from God...
tq Bishop Barron 🙏
❤. I have been having exactly the same thoughts lately about my family and those I claim to love. To love is to serve. Do I serve them? I do not think that I have. Mother Teresa would say to someone like me: ‘well then, do you really love them?’ This Saint is beginning to show me my family failings. The things I should have done. The things I should do if I truly love someone. It has been a sobering experience.
The needs and interests of others… it is so important.
nice video father...I m from India ....Proud to hav a mother Teresa as a saint
She was Albanian though
HoneyBadger you may be mistaken. As saint, she is now universal. So you can put her anywhere she is known and welcome
India was blessed to have such an amazing person.
There is no maximum amount to love. Love that.
Celeste Auger-Munshi there is a limit on love... it's called infinite love ;)
@@josephjackson1956 Obsession is a overstatement of love
I don't think any of us deserve to criticize Mother Theresa until we have followed God's Word as closely as she did, for as long as she did. Of course the devil bringing liars and slanderers would attack the Church and her saints.
They were right to question her sainthood.
Questions are the weapon against falsehood. Would you deny people this weapon?
BTW: Do you remember what the name Michael means?
Stfu. Everything should be questioned.
She may have followed God's words, but not His actions. The devil even knows scripture and quotes it.
@@dawnbroker5156
Language.
Can i question yours?
She took money from a murderous dictator. No one ever denied it. She certainly didnt deny it. It's not hidden knowledge.
Saint Teresa of Calcutta,pray for us!
Blasphemous! Necromancy. People wake up from the lies of the vatican and its wealth which does nothing to help the poor, only to destroy it., especially the evil jesuits.
It is easy to love when you see beauty, abundance, goodness. But what is moving in the life of Mother Teresa is that she was able to love in the middle of poverty, dirt, sinfulness of people. ❤️ Jesus please let us see your heart in every person we meet
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.
Bishop :-Fulton J. Sheen
I’m not Catholic, but the teaching that you gave about feeling the emptiness and absence of God is so insightful. Thank you father for such a wonderful video.
Great Sister Diaz. We serve one God. I wasn't raised Catholic. Our faith in God started from Catholic Church foundation and Mother Teresa I think of all women as gifts from God because Mary birth Jesus our Lord and Savior. For women who don't have children we can adopt/ mentor children just like she did.
What an epiphany for me today, to understand that God living in me includes part of that crucified Jesus that says "why have you forsaken me." Thank You. My spiritual journey just took another step in understanding.
I was afraid of that. The canonisation of MT has led to the self-justifaction of of those leading a life devoid of the Grace of God. Their spiritual journey is over. MT's was over after the Calcutta riots in 1946. She never got back on track, even after 50 years of trying extremely hard to regain her faith.
A faithful life is marked by a succession of Divine Revelations.
Eventually God will present you with His ultimate revelation: that of his non-existence. It is a rite of passage, a graduation into moral adulthood, a final calling, and the ultimate test: live without counting on God, and as if there is no afterlife outside of the lives of your progeny and your charges.
"Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachtani" is the pang of pain that announces your being set free. You don't want to feel that for 50 years on end, but you will if you refuse to accept the gift of freedom+responsibility.
MT is a perfect example of how NOT to relate God. If you want to know a real saint, read up on St. Damian of Molokai.
So a faithful life following God leads to atheism and the dismissal of all supernatural truths? After the "pang of pain" that is the beginning of psalm 22 (which by the way ends with a reminder of the greatness of God,) Jesus ends his mission with the words " 'Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.'" He wasn't set free? He didn't reach moral adulthood? Isn't a real "graduation" test to hold the hope of God even when no proof is given to you and his voice who the day before you "heard" clearly has suddenly disappeared, even if it took 50 years of hope? I feel like saying "oh now I get it! No God! I must become an existentialist and substitute with some amorphous will to live" is the ultimate spiritual failing, but hopefully I misinterpreted your comment since I doubt saint Damian did that. Please could you explain yourself better?
Iacopo Donati "Isn't a real "graduation" test to hold the hope of God even when no proof is given to you?"
No. It is behaving like a dog wasting away on top of the grave of his master. Self-pity masquerading as loyalty, sycophancy disguised as piety, nostalgia passing for hope.
God isn't as cruel as you are making him out to be. Who would abandon a loved one, expecting that loved one to hope for His uncertain return? Do you realise what you are saying?
@@Sophiedorian0535 He doesn't, these things happen after you reach a closeness with Him that you do not need consolations to be affirmed that He is working in you and through you. You serve for the fact that He is the ultimate good and there is nothing as great as to do as He would and asks of you. It is to be so much in Christ to take up His Cross and to share in its salvic work. Your suffering works for the salvation of others and alongside the Cross of Christ, you are emptied and Christ is filled.
@@Sophiedorian0535 it's called the dark night of the soul, many many saints experienced it and is an state acquired at a high level of spiritual realization send as a test of love from God
"Oh, night that guided me,
Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,
Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover,
Lover transformed in the Beloved!" Saint John of the Cross
"Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. .... And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
~ 1 Corinthians 13: 8,13
Only "Love" is the answer.!
Seven years ago, I was volunteering once a week at a Missionaries of Charity home in the archdiocese of Baltimore. The ministry is primarily as an drug abuse facility / AIDS hospice. It was very challenging for me personally, culturally, socially, and spiritually. The sisters live a very disciplined life: daily liturgy of the hours, daily Mass, daily Eucharistic adoration, provide transportation to and from the hospital, medication dispensary, arrange for / organize / lead AA & NA meetings for the residents, provide food, meals, clothing, laundry for themselves and the residents, arrange pastoral visits / internships for seminarians and consecrated religious; arrange field trips for the residents; manage a lay Missionaries of Charity weekly group. It was impressive to see everything they accomplished each day, week, month.
Works salvation won't save anyone.
Thanks for this wise and beautiful sermon, Bishop Barron
Have to love the Trolling atheists , there nothing if not predictable
4th knights worship Lucifer by taking the Jesuit oath. I know this first hand.
Not atheists, just facts and her being exposed for what she is. Ezekiel 33:8 and Ephesians 5:11
When I heard of Saint Teresa of Calcutta being declared a Saint by Pope Francis, I was filled with joy and happiness. Despite of what Christopher Hitchens about her, I disregard it. Some could argue that her works of mercy were fruitless.
Delusional
Could you make a video responding to Hitchen's claims about Mother Teresa?
+Dakarius Ashby someone needs to. and with as much financial data analysis as possible
Could someone make a video of Hitchens showing all the good work he did for the poor, sick & dying people of India, or how he went into leper colonies...Thought not.
Jack Quinn yeah that would be nice
Dakarius Ashby koo. th-cam.com/video/PrYnvZqLN4o/w-d-xo.html
Check out this link. This ex nun talks about how Hitchens changed his mind about Mother Teresa. He put the blame on the money issue on corrupt Vatican officials.
@@tompalm64 Who disproved Hitchens? What is the name of that person's work?
“The hand of the beggar is the hand of the King.”
St. Teresa of Calcutta
Funny how when Mother Teresa comes up online the Disciples of Hitchens come out of the wood work.
+Anthony P - sunlight kills bacteria
+Bit Phreak More likely that people have been propagandized by an nonintellectual polemist like Hitchens and just take what he said at face value. I am not shocked that people here have no idea what her activities actually were, what the Church teaches on spiritual poverty and desolation, and any number of other things because 'skeptics' aren't skeptical at all but religious in their nonbelief.
Anthony P - sometimes there are things that are taught, which don't always line up with how people act....
+Anthony P -- You don't have to be a "disciple of Hitchens" to find Mother Teresa's story disturbing. Mother Teresa suffered many symptoms of depression, yet was never treated for it. Instead, she was exorcised of demons by the order of her archbishop. All the research that I have read indicates that a "dark night of the soul" and a"clinical depression" are impossible to separate apart (the first one is almost always accompanied by the second) so a treating physician becomes obligated to treat the medical condition (depression), regardless of what people want to call it (Teresa's confessor apparently believed that Teresa was clinically depressed). There are therefore many philosophical and ethical questions regarding Teresa's depression, why it wasn't treated, and why theologians who don't experience depression dare to call it a "gift" of the Holy Spirit.
+skjelver one " Mother Teresa's story disturbing".... disturbing to whom? and why?
Everyone struggles in someway on their journey with Jesus!!!! We shouldn’t judge St. Teresa of Calcutta!!!!! Her life of Love and service to the poor is an example we should all pay attention to and learn from!!!!! It really disturbs me to read negative comments about her struggles and I for one choose to try to learn and imitate her examples.....
British journalist Christopher Hitchens said Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta was nothing but a scandalous woman and her works of mercy and hope were meaningless. However, I disagree. As a 4th degree Knight, I believe that her works of mercy and love and hope were meaningful. So I say, God bless her. Amen.
4th degree knight who took the Jesuit oath to kill and mame people who weren't catholic? I know all about the oath. Let your friends read the oath. I bet you can't.
Your a refreshing breeze in the stagnant air in the valley of tears. I see your list of talks and in between you tube has stuck the vile creatures penn and teller who are just so full of themselves with hate they lash out at anything good. Is this to compare or just to try and erase all the good you do? I often wonder if your love of God just threatens all the haters. You bear a heavy load, but you are still an awesome priest, bishop, whatever your title may happen to be, God Bless you always.
Thank you Father Barron. Just a theory. Spiritual darkness comes to everyone: including Jesus as displayed in the garden. But the smile on Mother Teresa’s face, though momentary, was a sign and glimpse of what true happiness and joy that awaits us and Mother Teresa in heaven
Very helpful. I was trying to do the love without enough prayer.
Mother Teresa was an inspiration. God bless.
One of Bishop Barron’s best
I read "Come Be My Light" a while back and as I was reading the book I could feel Jesus presence in Mother Teresa, and I said "She couldn't feel his love because she was the walking Jesus" The people she touched encountered Jesus...and she was looking for that encounter with Jesus...and didn't not know He was in here, but she know now! She denied her self to that point...a Saint!
Denied herself? She went to the best hospitals when she was dying. It wasn't good enough for her to humbly die there to set the real example?
God sent Mother Theresa to India, thank you for that
Amen, In all your getting get understanding.
I'm not worried about Hitchens and his ridiculous opinions. he's in the bliss of nothingness and purposelessness now in that he is dead. Regardless of his opinions, Mother Teresa left a legacy that the world will never forget unlike Hitchens who left his message of purposelessness.
+misti2 "Regardless of his opinions, Mother Teresa left a legacy that the world will never forget "
The world will never forget her dubious finances and certainly not the thousands of dead's she was responsable for.
P.G. Burgess she did "something"...the Hitchens person was a person...who made a living and income on preaching (same as the religious) that he was nothing. Yay.
+P.G. Burgess "The world will never forget her dubious finances ..."??? you mean the very few followers of Hitchens that think they are the world???
Opinions have nothing to do with it. He was there. The mayor of India even backed up and had proof of what was going on. The volunteers witnessed what went on there.
What a lie. Legacy? Yeah right!
Excellent, "illuminating" video. The sound seems distorted though, perhaps some sort of sound cancellation effect? Your recent homily had this too.
God bless Saint Teresa of Calcutta and all those who love her❤
She did not just talk the talk. She walked the walk. She understood the words of Jesus: ‘follow me.’ Actions. Not just words.
She was a CON-WOMAN, A SADIST and a HYPOCRITE.
Mother Teresa is one of those people who has a truly infectious smile.
Sir... please comment on Hunchback of Notre Dame... the Disney film.. really would appreciate your views on it.
The nasty comments about Mother Teresa being espoused by people are disgusting. It appears Hitchens was quite successful in smearing this woman. What is wrong with giving your life to loving the poorest of the poor and dying?
She did not give her life for the poor. She exploited them to get millions in donations that went to the vatican's many banks.
LoL.
Do u think feeding 1000s of people per day is free ?
Do u think housing 1000s of people is free ?
Do u think buying many many buildings is free ?
Do u think travel for 4000 nuns is free ?
She reused needles. Didn't sterilize them. No decent pain meds. Wouldn't let family members visit. No decent bedding. I could go on. How is that helping the poor dying? If that was my relative or friend, I certainly wouldn't treat them that way. Where is the dignity and compassion? I sure didn't see any. If that happened here there would be a ton of lawsuits. I can guarantee that for sure. She sure took the money from that billionaire who later was arrested for fraud. The money went to the greedy vatican to go along with the wealth they already have. The Vatican owns at least 179 million acres of land across the world. Probably more now. They keep getting richer while the poor get poorer. I have no use for Mother Teresa. She is a fraud and a scam artist. I am so sick of hearing her say, "for the love of God, for the poor." May God have mercy on her wretched soul. Hitchens exposed her for what she really was. Nothing wrong with that.
@@PInk77W1 No it's not free, but she recived a check for close to one billion dollars. It sure didn't go where it was supposed to. Instead it went to the Vatican bank. If I received that money, it sure as hell wouldn't of gone to the vatican bank! Not one penny of it! I would have started building a hospital immediately! That didn't happen either unfortunately. So sad.🤑😤 😢
The only one of your videos that has made me cry..
Mother Teresa is a beautiful soul for many.
Reading through some of these responses is really sad. A saint is a person who is flawed just like the rest of us. The difference is that they know it and they try to do their best to avoid sin. They also follow Christ's teachings, do as He instructs them, and be humble(which doesn't mean let people walk all over you). We are all called to be saints, some are called to be big saints so that the rest of us have role models to follow. So instead of us saying, it is to hard to live the way Christ wants me too, we can say, with Christ, I can try too. People don't create miracles, God works through people to create miracles. Why for some and not others? Only He knows, but He allows suffering so that we may unite our suffering with His on the cross to help save souls from eternal damnation. Why? Because sin is graver than we realize and to sacrifice ourselves through our suffering is the greatest love there is, to lay your life down for another! Why? Because God created each and everyone of us in union with our parents out of pure love! God loves you just the way you are, not your sins. He never stops loving you even when you deny His existence...Jesus said it Himself...those who persecute you do so because they have persecuted me. Remember, God loves you and someday He wants you home.
Beautiful.
Hitchens was a terribly shallow thinker. All his "great wit" and "iconoclastic thinking" (yeah right) amounts to destroy what's already there. He's never contributed to anything out of his own creation. Anyone can point fingers and name flaws. The single question that can vaporize any Hitchens is this: "Compared to what?"
So it is shallow to report the truth? Jesus said "have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?"
What an amazing story of this wonderfully inspirational saint! However, what hope is there for me if such a saintly person has a spiritual darkness for 50 years, and I, at best, a wretched sinner who tries to do the best I can as a devout Catholic, attending church every Sunday, praying every day, saying the rosary often, but falling from Grace every time I turn around...? I don't give up hope, I know God is merciful, but I'm a spiritual 'single celled organism' compared to Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and all others like her. I believe my calling is to be the best Catholic husband & father I can be, and that is my vocation, but wow, am I really making an impact? Do I pass through the eye of the needle to enter the gates of heaven? Anyone else out there feel like this and what advice do you have for a cradle Catholic that only started to embrace his faith at age 30, now almost 48 and still feeling at times like I'm just not 'getting it'?
Dan Tharan I hope your getting it and I'm sure you are, God is love. Have you ever watched John Michael Talbot gospel reflections on TH-cam daily. You might give it a go - hope so . God Bless Albert MacDonald.
Pray a Novena of the Seven Hail Mary Devotion and meditate on Our Lady's Seven Sorrows. Try it from the perspective of a parent towards the end of the Novena. When you say the prayers, go somewhere where you can be alone and focus your whole hearr upon them. And remember that Christ endured all He did for our sake.
I am not saying this is some magic sure-fire method, but it certainly sobered me up and set my act straight.
Learn to embrace the Crucifixion and you shall find the Resurrection.
Lovely video. I’d like to bless everyone with an inspirational quote of Mother Teresa: “AIDS is just retribution for improper sexual misconduct”. (Washington DC International Health Organisation Lunch Meeting, 1989, long after it was known that anyone could catch AIDS, including children given blood transfusions).
Hope fades away because "you" fade away, the serpents whisper, the passions ...the world... have no place to root.
Thank you Bishop you're so insightful and inspiring I wonder if Mother Teresa had such deep sadness as I because of believing lies from the Devil and now understanding that the Holy Spirit lives in us and so Jesus is right here with the spirit of compassion that has given us the spirit of himself on the cross loving his children through Mother Teresa .
To journey through darkness is to seek the light. Our fears and doubts provide the motivation to seek the truth. The dark night is the way to a new day.
The hollow absence gives me the fire to continue.
But how do you will yourself to love? I'm not talking about a mother's love for a child. I have had moments of love, it was an overwhelming burst of joy, felt deep inside, it was usually for an innocent animal. I am not sure I ever really loved a person. I forgive, even easily, after being hurt, but I can let those that have hurt me go from my life, because after all, if they hurt me, they did not love me, so not so hard to let them go. It's harder to let go of the idea of them, than them, themselves. I can actively choose to forgive them, but I cannot make myself love them. I can say I love them, but I really don't, not like Jesus loved us. Christ saw us as the poor pitiful creatures that we are, the fallen, which we are. He saw inside us to our sins and still He loved us. Is that what I have to do? See their flaws and through eyes of compassion, allow myself to see them without judgement, without resentment, just will myself, in my mind, will the goodness of God for them. I don't know, is that love? If so, I have to practice, which I am willing to do. Maybe I have to start with service, and the will to love follows?
I totally agree with you, Bishop. To suffer with Christ is to know Christ. It's part of sanctification.
Limitless Love.
God is good.
C.S. Lewis did point out that because of love being so recognizably good, one could fall into an idolatrous assumption of seeing love as the "supreme good" and acting immorally in the name of "love" e.g. justifying sexual immorality like infidelity "I'm in love". However this would definitely not fall into the definition of love as "willing the good of the other as the other." Lewis focused on love primarily in its accidents (eros, friendship, and so on) rather than its substance which I think is what your definition is.
+SheepEsquire Love is not greater than God, that is what is important to recognize. Then someone would say God is love. However, if you worship love instead of God you are on a wrong path.
I agree with you completely. And with C.S. Lewis. MT's definition of love lacks a notion of balance and of priority. I don't recognise it as love.
She preaches the administering of spiritual caritas INSTEAD OF material caritas. That is faith-healing, voodoo, superstition, shamanism, witchcraft even. If you are in the position to administer both (she had the funding for it, didn't she?), you are enjoined (for the Love of God) to administer the maximum of material caritas (pain medication and curative care) first and offer spiritual caritas ON TOP OF THAT.
MT went about the virtue of caritas as wrongly as one possibly could, and caused a lot of unnecessary suffering that way. An example of a recent saint who went about it the right way, I believe was St. Damien of Molokai.
Love is not an accident.
C.S. Lewis is a pagan drunkard.
I am a conservative true believing Catholic, and I think highly of most of Bishop Barron's videos, but like so many good Catholics Bishop Barron seems taken in by this woman. He hasn't bothered to check the facts. That was me, too, until recently.
Mother Teresa ran a very slipshod operation that did very little to help the destitute and dying. She had nuns with little or no medical training, mats instead of beds, extremely unsanitary facilities, no separation of the contagious from the non-contagious. At first the Missionaries of Charity lacked resources, true, but once they became famous donations poured in. Mother Teresa could have built nice modern hospices with rooms and beds and had her nuns become at least LPNs. She could have done so much. But what did she do with all these donations? No one knows. There never has been a public accounting. The best guess is that the moneyvsits in banks unused.
Mother Teresa may have been guilty of an heresy I will call painism, a belief that physical pain is so beautiful that it should not be allevied. While we all must bear crosses, and while most of us must suffer great pain in our final sicknesses, that doesn't mean it doesn't behoove Christians or medical professionals from alleviating that suffering. Note that Mother herself did not die on a mat with untrained nuns in an unsanitary Calcutta hospice---she died in Switzerland with the best medical care money could buy.
I do support her campaigns against abortion, contraception, and ecumenical services, and her evangelization efforts and her emphasis on Jesus.
comfort, money, and healthcare are not the way to happiness nor to heaven.
Thank you for your intellectual honesty.
Hello Bishop Barron! Can you address the videos re: Mother Teresa's "dark side"? Would like to know the truth. Thank you.
You should really list all the pictures in your videos. They are absolutely beautiful
Answering to 2:40 -- John 15: 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
FROM: THE WAY OF DIVINE LOVE - SISTER JOSEFA MENENDEZ
A prayer given to Sr. Josefa from our Lord Jesus Christ:
"O God most holy and just . . . Father of all
clemency and of infinite goodness, Thou who didst create man out of love
and through love has made him heir to eternal blessings, if he has sinned
against Thee through frailty and if he deserves chastisement, accept the
merits of Thy Son who offers Himself to Thee as a Victim of expiation.
By those divine merits, forgive sinful men, and deign to reinstate them as
heirs of Heaven. Oh My Father pity and mercy for souls". Amen.
The Way of Divine Love is in video form on line - especially the FULL narration of His Passion as He dictated it to Sr. Josefa. It is WONDERFUL to view! VERY moving...how I wish All would read this book or view it on line in the videos!
God bless you and all dear to your heart.
+Bishop Robert Barron
I think that what the critics of Mother Teresa successfully cast doubt on was not her intent, but her competence.
So my question is this: What good did she accomplish, and how does it compare to the saintly image of her in peoples minds?
Bad intent. Totally incompetent.
@@Revelation18-4 yeah all the lives she saved are totally incompetent
@@doubleabattery3814 She didn't save any lives.
Mother Theresa was a cruel woman. She didn't provide any end of life care. She claimed that suffering would bring the people closer to God. How can you love someone when you want to maximize their suffering?
Bishop Robert Barron, I respect you very much and appreciate all the lessons you so gracefully share with the rest of the world. But I am baffled that you say that too much faith is bad... I know God is always there, and I deep down believe that faith is as infinite as love. I'm almost certain that if everyone had the most faith any human can possibly have, God would be performing miracles through each and every one of us, and it would be Heaven on Earth. I understand there is a reason that the flesh is weak, , but as for faith, I can't think of other thing that it would you but empower you more and more and more. Just like God is absolute Infinity, I believe the blessings would be just as infinite. And if one truly trusts in God with all his/her being, then I honestly feel that there isn't such thing as too much faith. Those are just my thoughts though, I ask God for more faith every day, and I thank Him for keeping me faithful.
When you have too much faith you stop asking questions, and if you don't ask then how will god answer?
I believe Mother Teresa walked the life of Jesus Christ. Christ went to the limits of man's forsakenness to atone for our sins and to get man on the path towards God. So far was the limit that Jesus himself felt the absence of the divine. Likewise, Mother Teresa went to the depths of man's poverty to radiate the presence of God. It's only fitting that she would have felt the same despair that Jesus as man felt; otherwise, she would not have been human. Her life is indeed inspiring.
Jesus also overturned the tables of the moneymakers in the temple. If He was here He today He would do the same to the evil, corrupt, money laundering vatican.
Why do you hide your Bishops Cross with chain. Bishop Sheen wore it openly and openly stroked it. Please do so!
Holy and radiant clothes please pray for our abuse HEB help missonariesz
I find all this to hard, I am a weak deeply flawed human being
You are by no means alone.
Too much faith? I haven't come close to a mustered seed, and you're saying I can have too much?
Jesus comes to us in distressing disguise we learnt from Mother Teresa as she worked the streets reaching out to those in distress and approaching death.She would never have not known the Spirit of Jesus in her ministry with her fella Sisters.
If one dwells in the feeling or evidence of the absence of God, one is in for quite a ride. How do we get off it ?
"How do we get off ON it?" is what interests the faithful.
St. Theresa pray for us
There is only one interceptor, mediator, between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Praying to saints is idolatry.
@@Revelation18-4 If you're seeking truth, check this out...www.catholic.com/tract/praying-to-the-saints
God sent Mother Theresa to India, thank you for that
@@Revelation18-4 we ask her to pray to Jesus Christ for us. If the saints bring you closer to God, that is good.
God sent Mother Theresa to India, thank you for that
Bishop, once you come to India
This may be unrelated to the video but I need to ask you a question do you think JRR Tolkien could be saint one day please comment back if you can I would really appreciate it:)
+Kevin Farris They are putting GK Chesterton up for sainthood in this article from 2013. Tolkein is mentioned.I don't know if there is enough evidence for his case but one never knows.zenit.org/articles/gk-chesterton-s-cause-for-sainthood-investigation-gets-underway/
Is love synonymous with sacrifice in a Christian understanding?
+L2084 Love always involves sacrifice. Think of all the sacrifices a mother makes for love. Love is putting the other before one's self.
I'm not criticizing Mother Teresa, but sometimes we look at those on the world stage as beacons of faith, instead of those living in anonymity. Intellectually, it is crystal clear there is a God; it's the virtues and promises of God that we must learn to take up our cross about.
why do you have to hide the Cross? Is it because of Church ordinance? Personally I don't like especially Bishops hide the Cross instead of using it as a visible witness to Christ's suffering death and resurrection to save humanity, Forgive my ignorance but please hep understand. IAnd I am a loyal follower of you videos.
Better saints than I have hauled up better prayers, at more extremities of need, and god ignores us all.
Saint Teresa, mother to all, pray for us and this deteriorated world. You were a shining light of God's love and message to all. Love to you always for your mission and your example to serve with humility.
She is not my mother! God forbid.
The sound of this video is horrible. Don't use a gate like that. Please, correct this video to republish.
When I was listening with my Ear Buds Audio was bad but with inexpensive $24.00 Headphones it was great..
It is false, it isn't great and my message is for technicians of Word on Fire.
Bishop Barron please post a video responding to Hitchens' attack on Mother Theresa.
If telling the truth is attacking. The Jesus should be put on trial too!
“We are afraid of the unborn child.”
St. Teresa of Calcutta
Mother Theresa is what nightmares are made of
There's proof that she disagrees with catholic teaching, what do you think of this?
A great one!
❤
When Mother Teresa died no one knew, because the media had broadcasted only the death of Princess Diana that day. Smh
You can overdo love have seen India mothers suffocate their sons with excessive love
But what about the accusation on everything bad/shady she did? I need to know what happens with that??
I watched a video which claimed she isnt a true Saint because she isnt a true Catholic. What do you think?
why is their so many stuff about her bad reviews
The Judge gave severe punishment. ? The cult wanted him, and got him in ,
The people who mock Mother Theresa are so low they can walk under a pregnant ant walking across Hell's basement floor.
You've talked before about Hans Urs von Balthasar. Am I correct in detecting a bit of his kenotic motifs in your talking about Jesus on the Cross?
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no man or pope can make a person into a saint
I saw the movie
She did say in her own words she “LIKES TO SEE THE POOR, ILL, AND DYING SUFFER.” sounds like some kind of sadistic witch to me
Not what she meant, man causes poverty, chemicals in the air we breath and in some of the food we eat...much pain is directly caused by man's greed. Now, when medicine is not available or is not strong enough what is one to do? Embrace the pain, and see it as a way to be purified, as a way to share in the pain Jesus was put through...there are much better medicines today, and if the Sisters can acquire it I'm am most sure they would supply it to people in need. So, it isn't that she found pleasure in people's pain...it was to direct that pain when nothing else could be done about it medically to give up that pain to God as a prayer.
Do you ever do any pieces on some 'blessed' non-catholic saints? like at all?
We are saints, living saints who are saved by God's grace.
@Bryan Huh? Lol, that’s like when muslims say all the prophets are muslim. 🤣🤣
Ah the Catholics just love their saints don't they ! She was so full of love says our Bishop, and love knows no bounds, there can't be enough of it. So much does Jesus love the people of India and Calcutta in particular, that omnipotent He allowed so many humans to live in abject poverty, misery, disease and death, in that place among many others in the world , and then He sends along this sadistic "saint" who also "loved" suffering so much that pain relief was not allowed in her hospice for the dying, whilst the nuns secretly baptised them. If Mother Tereza was a saint, I'm glad I'm just human.
+Byron Hamilton
Hi Byron. It's the Catholics, among the other Christians, who claim that God is benevolent. I was merely pointing out that considering all the suffering in the world, and His claimed omnipotence, He does very little about it, indeed nothing, almost as if He weren't there. He didn't even answer our new Saint's prayers, let alone sort out the world's poverty. Sorry if my tone seems snide to you, I'm just speaking frankly.
Tony your always on the internet trying to prove how much smarter you are than all the poor benighted believers you love to attack with your sophomoric "wit". Unfortunately your not that smart and everyone, believers and unbelievers knows it.
John, you have nothing to say except to attack me. I suppose that is par for the RCC course when the criticism of you new "saint" hits home. A mean minded nasty old bigot, in love with suffering as long as it was others doing the suffering. For her own medical care, she had the best. Look up the facts John.
John Barone ppo
Tony you're right. I lost my temper and attacked you personally. You're on the internet a lot. Belief in a Supreme Intelligence seems quite in tune with the order of the universe as great thinkers from Aristotle to Einstein have pointed out. However, there is also great suffering in the world and you have every right to believe that this Being is indifferent to that suffering. People such as Mother Theresa believe in the goodness of God and they live their lives to bring their vision to others. She went to the people ignored by the rest of us. I expect you have done little to help alleviate that suffering. So maybe you should be less critical of people who do and not worry about the nature of their vision.
In 1997, Mother Teresa underwent an exorcism, mostly because she was experiencing insomnia. Insomnia can be a defining symptom of severe depression, or even psychotic depression. Given the many recent revelations about Mother Teresa's "darkness", which seem to almost exactly fit the DSM-V criteria for severe depression, it seems odd to me that the Bishop would scoff at the idea that Mother Teresa was depressed. It also seems odd to me why the Church would have rather treated her symptoms with exorcism as opposed to modern mental health treatments. Would it have hindered her path to sainthood, if her "darkness" had turned out to be something amenable to modern treatment, and not a gift of the Holy Spirit"? Would a truly happy Mother Teresa, healed of a mental illness, been less qualified for sainthood than the psychologically miserable woman described in recent accounts?
+skjelver one She wasn't a miserable woman, but deeply joyful. One can suffer and still be joyful. If Mother Teresa had asked for therapy, she could have had it. I haven't heard of her making such a request. She suffered in that she could not feel God's presence, yet her faith was such that she knew that God would still be present whether she felt His presence or not.
+skjelver one There is a world of difference between clinical depression and "the dark night of the soul". I am bipolar, but I cannot say that I ever experienced the absence of God like Mother Teresa. To feel the absence of Him so keenly, one must have felt His Presence just as strongly. Many, many saints have gone through this. Now, this is not to say that such spiritual desolation cannot cause depression as the psychiatric world defines it. It may very well do so. But Mother was undergoing something other than a lack of serotonin.
yourbluesmama "I am told that God lives in me, and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul." ~~Mother Teresa
Debra Johnson This IS clinical depression: "I am told that God lives in me, and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul." ~~Mother Teresa
Jesus said "Take up your cross and follow me." He never said we wouldn't suffer. God gives everyone the cross they need to perfect their souls. Mother Teresa's cross was to help her identify with the people she helped who were unloved and forgotten and see the Lord in them and love Him in them. She carried her cross beautifully and faithfully, making her a saint for sure. St. Teresa, pray for us!
"You can't love too much" ... well, just like you said "too much faith becomes credulity", we can also state that "too much love becomes obsession." Can we not?
It depends on what you mean by love. You said in this video that love is an act of the will, so then you are saying "you can never act enough of your will?" that sounds odd, and in a certain light, dangerous.
Regardless, I don't see anything in this video that would suggest that Mother Teresa actually was the loving, kind person you describe. "she radically loved people" tells us nothing about what she actually did. Her "service to the poor" is stated, but not elaborated on. What service did she actually deliver? Did she give humanitarian aid? Not really. Her "service" was religious in nature. I'm pretty sure the poor would have appreciated medicine, food, and education more, and it would have had a greater impact.
Charles Boulanger, just as the professors of the pro-English Sorbonne had planned to eliminate the Maid for foreign policy reasons in 1431 Cauchon, but it was the Bishop of Beauvais, another Burgundian and English partisan, cunningly pointed out a Biblical law, Deuteronomy 22:5 to burn her. The only means left to accomplish their end was to convict her of heresy. So the Catholic Church did. The Maid had already passed the test for witchcraft, she was a virgin And in the Church’s eyes, the technical reason for her conviction-dressing like a man-was justifiable to burn her. The Catholic Church haaaaa, they are so nice people.
@Donald Wilkerson That's too bad!
10:29 Only one way to holiness is through Jesus' sacrifice!! Not the cross (When you say cross, you obviously mean works)
Romans 6: 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
GOD BLEES