Let us ask God, when it comes time to ask him for
something, to help us to be generous.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 47
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
July 10
The more you save, the less you will be able to give. The
less you have, the more you will know how to share.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 47
July 9
Open your hearts to the love God instills in others. God
loves you tenderly. What he gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but
to be shared.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 47
July 8
I ask you one thing: do not tire of giving, but do not
give your leftovers. Give until it hurts, until you feel the pain.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 46
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
July 7
What is a Christian?" someone asked a Hindu man. He
responded, “The Christian is someone who gives.”
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 46
July 6
Some years ago Calcutta
When they handed it to me, the little one told me: “I have
spent three days without eating any sugar. Take it. This is for your children.”
The little one loved with an intense love. He had
expressed it by a personal sacrifice. I repeat: he was no more than three or
four years old. He could hardly say my name. I did not know him; I had never
seen him before. Nor had I met his parents. The boy made that decision after he
found out, from the grownups, about my situation.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 45
July 5
One night, a man came to our house to tell me that a Hindu
family, a family of eight children, had not eaten anything for days.
They had nothing to eat.
I took enough rice for a meal and went to their house. I
could see the hungry faces, the children with their bulging eyes. The sight
could not have been more dramatic!
The mother took the rice from my hands, divided it in half
and went out. When she came back a little later, I asked her: “Where did you go?
What did you do?”
She answered, “They also are hungry.” “They” were the
people next door, a Muslim family with the same number of children to feed and
who did not have any food either.
That mother was aware of the situation. She had the
courage and the love to share her meager portion of rice with others. In spite
of her circumstances, I think she felt very happy to share with her neighbors
the little I had taken her.
In order not to take away her happiness, I did not take
her anymore rice that night. I took her some more the following day.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 43-44
July 4
I believe it was Saint Vincent de Paul who used to say to
those who wanted to join his congregation: “Never forget, my children, that the
poor are our masters. That is why we should love them and serve them, with
utter respect, and do what they bid us.”
Do you not believe that it can happen, on the other hand,
that we treat the poor like they are a garbage bag in which we throw everything
we have no use for? Food we do not like or that is going bad—we throw it there.
Perishable goods past their expiration date, and which might harm us, go in the
garbage bag: in other words, go to the poor.
An article of clothing that is not in style anymore, that
we do not want to wear again, goes to the poor. This does not show any respect
for the dignity of the poor; this is not to consider them our masters, like
Saint Vincent de Paul taught his religious, but to consider them less than our equals.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 42
July 3
We feed ourselves, not to please our senses, but to show
our Lord that we want to work for him and with him, to live a life of sacrifice
and reparation.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 41
July 2
Without a spirit of sacrifice, without a life of prayer,
without an intimate attitude of penance, We would not be capable of carrying
out our work.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 39
July 1
Silence will teach us a lot. It will teach us to speak
with Christ and to speak joyfully to our brothers and sisters.
Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 37
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