Celebrate suffering: Making a choice for pain or paradise

It was a shock last year to hear that Mother Teresa of Calcutta for decades felt that she had lost her faith in God, that she endured spiritual emptiness. Yet even though the publication of Mother Teresa's revealing letters provoked a useful discussion about the relationship of doubt to faith, it didn't cause people to ask another big question: How did Mother Teresa view her own suffering? She welcomed it. In her little-understood theology, the winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize not only celebrated her suffering, she taught the world's sick and dying their pain "was only the kiss of Jesus." The inwardly tormented woman who spread the Missionaries of Charity to more than 100 countries said....

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