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.