Many saints write of periods of darkness they experience within their souls. I am now pondering how Blessed Mother Teresa throughout most of her life experienced a continual darkness, a suffering and deadness in her soul. Soon she realized she was feeling what she had given her life for: the thirst of the crucified Christ for love and souls. Is this the suffering that is being truly united with Christ? Mother Teresa gave her life to this and vowed to Jesus to refuse him nothing. O my Christ, how can I fully give my consent to this suffering, this intimate union with your Sacred Heart and its agonizing sadness for the world?
– Prayer Journal, August 5, 2015
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