Showing posts with label Mother Teresa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mother Teresa. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Mother Teresa and Mother Church: Two Faces of Love


tgm_erick,

Friend, here's an anecdote about the encounter of a poor cancer patient and Mother Teresa of Calcutta.  


HER SMILE REACHES OUT...
                                           to the suffering poor 

At the home for the dying which the Missionaries of Charity have in Calcutta there was a man who had cancer, his body half-consumed by the sickness. Everyone had abandoned him as a hopeless case. Mother Teresa came near him to wash him tenderly. She encountered, at first, only the sick man’s disdain.

“How can you stand my body’s stench?” he asked.