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February 20, 2014
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
will be aware that most of it was lived in spiritual desolation. As an intelligent and well-educated young woman she had a calling to become a nun and go abroad (at first from Albania to Ireland), was sceptical of its validity, sought advice from intelligent Catholic religious, and tested it very carefully. (She was an extremely intelligent woman, in the plainest worldly sense: I can report that at first hand.) Everything she did for the long remainder of her life was premised on that one personal revelation. Endtiming : Essays in Idleness
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 20, 2014 1:33 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.