Pastor Mitzi Mak explores the life and ministry of Mother Teresa. She reminds us that if we desire to love and serve Jesus, that he can be found in the overlooked and lonely, for they are image-bearers of God.
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Scripture & Quotations
Matthew 25:40
Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.
“I felt aware of a calling in the midst of my vocation: I had to leave the convent and consecrate myself to help the poor, living among them.”
-Mother Teresa
“Our work is based on these words, Matthew 25:35-36, where Jesus says, ‘For when I was hungry, you fed me. And when I was thirsty, you gave Me something to drink. I was alone as a stranger, and you welcomed Me into your homes and into your lives. I was naked, and you gave Me clothes to wear; I was sick, and you tended to My needs; I was in prison, and you comforted Me.’”
-Mother Teresa
“In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.
As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved.
Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.”
- Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
-Mother Teresa
“Everybody today seems to be in a hurry. No one has any time to give to others: children to their parents, parents to their children, spouses to each other. World peace begins to break down in the homes.”
-Mother Teresa
“God has created us so we do small things with great love. I believe that great love should start at home: with my family, my neighbors across the street, those right next door. And this love should then reach everyone.”
-Mother Teresa
“Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.”
-Mother Teresa
Today it is very fashionable to talk about _____. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
Colossians 3:12-14
Since you are all set apart by God, made holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a holy way of life: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Put up with one another. Forgive. Pardon any offense against one another, as the Lord has pardoned you, because you should act in kind. But above all these, put on love! Love is the perfect tie to bind these together.
“True love causes pain. Jesus, in order to give us the proof of his love, died on the cross. A mother, in order to give birth to her baby, has to suffer. If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.”
-Mother Teresa
“It is very possible that you will find human beings, surely very near you, needing affection and love. Do not deny them these. Who is that someone? That person is Jesus himself: Jesus who is hidden under the guise of suffering!
Jesus comes in the broken bodies of the poor. He also comes in the rich who are drowning in the loneliness of their own riches. He also comes in their lonely hearts, when there is no one to offer them love.”
-Mother Teresa
“We have the specific task of giving material and spiritual help to the poorest of the poor, not only the ones in the slums but those who live in any corner of the world as well. We do this by loving Jesus in the bread of the Eucharist, and loving and serving him hidden under the painful guise of the poorest of the poor, whether their poverty is a material poverty or a spiritual one. We do this by recognizing in them (and giving back to them) the image and likeness of God.”
-Mother Teresa