For more than 45 years before that she reached out and ministered to the poorest of the poor, the dying destitute, the abandoned, the orphaned, the sick, - in fact all those who were excluded and lived on the peripheries of a heartless society.
In most of the photos available online, Mother Teresa of Calcutta is seen beaming with a smile. Whether hunched beside the poor or standing alongside her fellow Missionaries of Charity, she always appeared with a bright face. Who would have thought that in her 87 years on earth, 50 were spent in the so-called “dark night of the soul”?
She endured decades of profound spiritual darkness, lasting perhaps 50 years. It is theologically referred to as the “dark night of the soul,” experienced by saints like John of the Cross and Thérèse of Lisieux.
An inter-faith prayer for peace and harmony was held at the Mother House, the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity (MC) congregation in Kolkata, the capital city of eastern West Bengal state, India on September 11.
