Mother Teresa and Matthew 25

Why is our congregation spread all over the world today? It is because people see what we do: feeding the hungry Christ, clothing the naked Christ, taking care of the sick, the dying, the leprosy patients. Because they see they believe.

Mother Teresa and Matthew 25


"I was hungry and I waited for you but you did not come. I was homeless on the street. I waited for you but you did not come." Jesus will judge us on this.

Feeding the hungry Christ.
Clothing the naked Christ.
Visiting the sick Christ.
Giving shelter to the homeless Christ..."

Mother Teresa and Matthew 25

"A sister was telling me that just two or three weeks ago she and some other sisters picked up a man from the streets in Bombay and brought him home. We had a big place donated to us which we have turned into a home for the dying. This man was brought there and the sisters took care of him. They loved him and treated him with dignity. Right away they discovered that the whole of his back had no skin, no flesh. It was all eaten up. After they washed him they put him on his bed, and this sister told me that she had never seen so much joy as she saw on the face of that man. Then I asked her, "What did you feel when you were removing those worms from his body; what did you feel?" And she looked at me and said, "I've never felt the presence of Christ; I've never really believed the word of Jesus saying, 'I was sick and you did it to me.' But his presence was there and I could see it on that man's face." This is the gift of God."

Mother Teresa and Matthew 25

"Jesus said "I was hungry, you gave me to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me to drink. I was ignorant and you taught me. You took me to church." This is not simply something to excite our imagination. Jesus really said it. So he is the poor we meet everywhere."

Please pray for the homeless.

Excerpts from Mother Teresa's book-"Total Surrender":

".....the sick and dying..... This is Jesus in his distressing disguise......it is the same Jesus. He said very clearly, "You did it to me. I was hungry...I was naked...I was homeless."

It is him we serve in the poor; it is for his sake that we become beggars. How great will be our joy when at the last judgement we will hear our Lord address his Missionaries of Charity with these words, "Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and ye gave me to eat, thirsty and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger and ye brought me within, naked and ye clothed me. I was sick and ye visited me, in prison and ye came unto me...in as much as ye did it to one of the least of these my brethen, ye did it to me."

More from Mother Teresa next week.