{"id":328528,"date":"2016-09-04T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T02:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/mother-teresa-a-great-teacher-of-the-art-of-loving\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:05:00","slug":"mother-teresa-a-great-teacher-of-the-art-of-loving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/mother-teresa-a-great-teacher-of-the-art-of-loving\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Teresa, a great teacher of the art of loving"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"MotherTeresa\"<\/em>\u201cMother Teresa is \u2026 a great teacher of the art of loving. She truly loved everyone<\/strong>. She didn\u2019t ask her neighbour if he or she was Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, etc. \u2026 Undoubtedly, Mother Teresa was the first to love<\/strong>. She went out looking for those entrusted to her by God. Mother Teresa saw Jesus in every person, perhaps in a way no others did. Her motto was: \u201cYou did it for me.\u201d Mother Teresa made herself one<\/strong> with everyone. She made herself poor with the poor and especially in the same way as the poor. \u2026 She didn\u2019t accept anything that the poor couldn\u2019t have as well. We know, for example, that she and her sisters do without having even a simple washing machine, something that many people do not understand. They say: \u201cNowadays!\u201d But she did not want one because the poor don\u2019t have them. She took upon herself and identified herself with the wretchedness of the poor, their grief, their sickness and death. Mother Teresa loved<\/strong> everyone as herself<\/strong>, to the point of offering others her own ideal. For example, she invited the volunteers who spent a period of time serving in her Work to seek out their own \u201cCalcutta\u201d when they went home to their countries. She said: \u00a0it is because there are poor people everywhere. Mother Teresa certainly loved her enemies<\/strong>. She never stopped to dispute the absurd accusations they made against her, but she prayed for her enemies. Yes, in her we can see \u201cthe art of loving\u201d lived to perfection. She was \u2026 a queen of charity.\u201d Chiara Lubich<\/a> Message during a Conference Call on 25th<\/sup> September 1997.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Reead more<\/strong>: The magnificat of Mother Theresa of Calcutta as received by Chiara Lubich – Press releases SIF<\/a>– 1\u00b0 Settembre 2016<\/p>\n

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After the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who is being canonised today, Chiara Lubich spoke of her as a role model for the perfection of charity. Mother Teresa and Chiara were bound by a deep friendship and met on several occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}