Wednesday, March 7, 2001
Wednesday, March 7, 2001
We do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now
crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he
might taste death for everyone.
She took him to an elderly man who had just been brought in from the street. The dying man was
dirty and the odor from him was suffocating. She knelt down and took the dying man in her arms
and said to him, "I love you." Then she looked up at her guest and said, "I want you to meet
Jesus. In a dying man I see and meet Jesus, my Savior. Did He not say, 'In so much as you did it
unto the least of these you have done it unto me?'" (Matthew 25:40) Mother Teresa was who
she was because Jesus lived within her. That is true of so many of the great saints that history has
known.
(Hebrews 2:9
NRSV)
Once a leader of the Church went to see Mother Teresa. He asked the secret of her compassion
for the dying, dirty people of the world. She replied that it was Jesus who gave her compassion.
He asked, "How does Jesus give you the power to care for the poor?" She replied, "Come with
me and you can meet Jesus." He followed her out of the chapel into a large room where there
were a great number of dying persons.
Dear God, may I see Jesus in those who are in need. Amen.
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