Combat Profile
Luminous Mercy
heals all nearby suffering beings and grants them peace, transforming their final moments with divine compassion
Unseen Sanctity
continuously reduces suffering in the vicinity and reveals hidden pain that others overlook, drawing strength from service to the forgotten
After her death her published letters revealed roughly fifty years of what she called "the dark night" -- a near-total absence of felt consolation in prayer, a sense of God's silence she carried while smiling for the cameras. Critics (Christopher Hitchens most prominently) raised serious questions about the medical quality of her hospices; defenders note she was running spiritual hospices for the dying, not hospitals
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” — Mother Teresa
Anjeze Bojaxhiu — Albanian, Indian by adoption, global by influence — spent forty-seven years working with the dying in Calcutta and built an order now serving the poor in over a hundred and thirty countries. The posthumous publication of her private letters caused theological shock: this most public exemplar of joyful Christian service had endured a half-century interior darkness, her sense of God’s presence almost entirely withdrawn, and had continued the work anyway. Within Catholic spiritual tradition this places her in continuity with John of the Cross’s “dark night of the soul”; outside it, opinions vary. Canonized by Pope Francis in 2016.
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her own writings; *Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light* (posthumous letters, 2007); biographies
