Mother Teresa: Revolution

Fasting Day 24 of 40 | Fourth Tuesday of Lent

“I feel that we are in such a hurry that we do not even have time to look at one another and smile. Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them. The Irish aid workers, though, reach out to the desolation of the poor – not only their material poverty but also their spiritual wounds as well. They know the best way of satisfying our brethren’s hunger is to share with them whatever we have – to share with them until we ourselves feel what they feel because the poor do not need our condescending attitude or our pity but our love and tenderness. They also know that the less we have, the more we give. It seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love. When they place themselves at the service of the poor, it causes an authentic revolution, the biggest, the most difficult one: the revolution of love.”

Teresa says to slow down. Lent helps us do that. We see life differently and experience the revolution of love.

God supplied manna every day for the Israelites for forty years. Why? He cares for those He loves. God wants us to do the same for us as His people.

The Irish aid workers modeled the way as conduits of love. Like the Israelites, we do well to trust Him for daily bread and not try to store it up but to share with love.

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Research how Patrick returned to the land of his captors not for revenge but to serve them. He won the nation of Ireland with a revolution of love.

Years later, Mother Teresa won India the same way.

Each of us can start a revolution where God has us.