Mother Teresa's Secret Fire

by Joseph Langford

Overview

Saint Teresa of Calcutta - known worldwide as Mother Teresa - began her journey toward sainthood at age thirty eight when she broke out of her safe routine as a teacher and, with only five rupees to her name, began to serve in the slums of Calcutta. At the lime of her death in 1997 her Missionaries of Charity were established in more than 120 countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681920481
Publisher:	Our Sunday Visitor, Publishing Division
Publication date:	09/05/2016
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	508,186
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword 9

Section 1 Fire in the Night 11

1 Why Mother Teresa? 13

2 A Life Bathed in Light 19

3 Calcutta: Backdrop to an Epiphany 27

4 A Message Discovered 37

5 In Her Own Words 49

Mother Teresa's "Varanasi Letter" (Excerpts) 54

Section 2 Illumination 59

6 In the Darkness, Light 61

7 "I Thirst": A Window on the Heart of God 75

8 A Legacy of Light: Part I 87

9 A Legacy of Light: Part II 107

10 Meditation: Entering the Light 129

Guided Meditation: "I Thirst for You" 133

Section 3 Transformation 139

11 The Power to Change 141

12 The Beauty of God Within 153

13 Encounter: Seeking His Face 169

14 Secret Fire 175

15 Drawn Into the Light 185

16 Naming the Darkness, Choosing the Light 203

17 Conversion: Thirsting for God 217

18 Joining the Thirst of God and Alan 233

Meditation on the Samaritan Woman 239

Conclusion: Light Bearer to Our Calcutta 249

In Memoriam 258

For Mother Teresa: A Psalm of Ascents 259

Appendix 1 "I Thirst": The Voice of Scripture 261

Appendix 2 " I Thirst": The Voice of Mother Teresa (An Anthology of Quotes) 275

Appendix 3 The Voice of Christian Tradition: Saints and Spiritual Writers 287

Appendix 4 Meditation: "I Thirst for You" 297

Notes 303

Author's Acknowledgments 311

Publisher's Acknowledgments 313