“It has been just a simple surrender, a simple ‘yes’ to Christ in allowing Him to do what He wants. The hand tells the pencil and the pencil obeys. That is why the work is His work. I’m just a little pencil in His hand. Tomorrow, if He finds somebody more helpless, more stupid, more hopeless, I think He will do still greater things with her and through her.”
“My own Jesus, do with me as You wish – as long as You wish without a single glance at my feelings and pain. I am your own. Imprint on my soul and life the sufferings of Your Heart.”
- Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Born: August 26, 1910
Died: September 5, 1997
Beatified: October 19, 2003 by Pope Saint John Paul II
Canonized: September 4, 2016 by Pope Francis
in the Holy Year of Mercy
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The pencil image in front is an adaptation from the photo of Marie Constantin © 2003 drawn by Bro. Diego Joseph, CFR on the occasion of Saint Teresa of Calcutta’s canonization
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