Friday, March 1, 2002
Friday, March 1, 2002
Then he will answer them, "Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the
least of these, you did not do it to me."
Once a leader of the Church went to see her. 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.
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.
(Matthew 25.45
NRSV)
Let's remember for a few moments the life of Mother Teresa, the leader of the Sisters of
Charity of Calcutta, India. Her life was celebrated by the world as we watched her funeral by
way of television. Wasn't it stunning to see an officially Hindu state honor her with a state
funeral? Documentaries about her life revealed that she received the Nobel Peace Prize
because she had inspired so many to care for the poorest and for those who are dying. Many
times persons who knew her well said that she had testified to them that it was the life and the
ministry of Jesus that had continually inspired her to serve.
Lord Jesus, giver of life, may I see you better in all of your children. Amen.
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