This book first published the diaries and letters of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997). Mother Teresa entered a convent at the age of 18, then moved to India. She obtained from the Vatican the opening of the monastic order «Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity», which serves the sick and the poor to this day around the world.
This book first published the diaries and letters of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997). Mother Teresa entered a convent at the age of 18, then moved to India. She obtained from the Vatican the opening of the monastic order «Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity», which serves the sick and the poor to this day around the world. Pus, sweat, dirt — that’s what she consciously doomed herself to, opening houses for the poor, dying, lepers, personally washing them, caring for them, feeding them. But inside, I felt darkness. “If you only knew what darkness is in my heart … A smile is a huge cover behind which you can’t see how it hurts me,” she wrote in one of the letters. Everyone remembered her like that — with a smile on her lips, bright, light. Only now has it been revealed what a price it was, what kind of faith one had to have in order to serve every day, lead a growing order and remain a light for everyone.
BOOK CLUB 36.6, 416 p.