A rich lady at a party asked Mother Teresa “What do u do for a living?” Mother said “I pick up starving people in the streets of Calcutta.” Rich lady said “I wouldn’t do that for all the money in the world.” Mother said “neither would I, but I do it for love.”

God transformed my life through Mother Teresa, I am now a lay missionary of charity in her community. Saint Mother Teresa, pray for those in darkness.

nice video father...I m from India ....Proud to hav a mother Teresa as a saint

I don't think any of us deserve to criticize Mother Theresa until we have followed God's Word as closely as she did, for as long as she did. Of course the devil bringing liars and slanderers would attack the Church and her saints.

There is no maximum amount to love. Love that.

It is easy to love when you see beauty, abundance, goodness. But what is moving in the life of Mother Teresa is that she was able to love in the middle of poverty, dirt, sinfulness of people. ❤️ Jesus please let us see your heart in every person we meet

Saint Teresa of Calcutta,pray for us!

What an epiphany for me today, to understand that God living in me includes part of that crucified Jesus that says "why have you forsaken me." Thank You. My spiritual journey just took another step in understanding.

Funny how when Mother Teresa comes up online the Disciples of Hitchens come out of the wood work.

The nasty comments about Mother Teresa being espoused by people are disgusting. It appears Hitchens was quite successful in smearing this woman. What is wrong with giving your life to loving the poorest of the poor and dying?

I’m not Catholic, but the teaching that you gave about feeling the emptiness and absence of God is so insightful. Thank you father for such a wonderful video.

i've always been thinking why i never really loved anyone especially my own parents and siblings in such a way that i would care for their needs and interests... now i know i am devoid of love and need to pray earnestly for the gift love from God... tq Bishop Barron 🙏

"Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!" Saint John of the Cross

I'm not worried about Hitchens and his ridiculous opinions. he's in the bliss of nothingness and purposelessness now in that he is dead. Regardless of his opinions, Mother Teresa left a legacy that the world will never forget unlike Hitchens who left his message of purposelessness.

British journalist Christopher Hitchens said Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta was nothing but a scandalous woman and her works of mercy and hope were meaningless. However, I disagree. As a 4th degree Knight, I believe that her works of mercy and love and hope were meaningful. So I say, God bless her. Amen.

Could you make a video responding to Hitchen's claims about Mother Teresa?

"Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. .... And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love." ~ 1 Corinthians 13: 8,13

When I heard of Saint Teresa of Calcutta being declared a Saint by Pope Francis, I was filled with joy and happiness. Despite of what Christopher Hitchens about her, I disregard it. Some could argue that her works of mercy were fruitless.

Have to love the Trolling atheists , there nothing if not predictable

Only "Love" is the answer.!

Everyone struggles in someway on their journey with Jesus!!!! We shouldn’t judge St. Teresa of Calcutta!!!!! Her life of Love and service to the poor is an example we should all pay attention to and learn from!!!!! It really disturbs me to read negative comments about her struggles and I for one choose to try to learn and imitate her examples.....

Mother Teresa is one of those people who has a truly infectious smile.

“The hand of the beggar is the hand of the King.” St. Teresa of Calcutta

Your a refreshing breeze in the stagnant air in the valley of tears. I see your list of talks and in between you tube has stuck the vile creatures penn and teller who are just so full of themselves with hate they lash out at anything good. Is this to compare or just to try and erase all the good you do? I often wonder if your love of God just threatens all the haters. You bear a heavy load, but you are still an awesome priest, bishop, whatever your title may happen to be, God Bless you always.

Seven years ago, I was volunteering once a week at a Missionaries of Charity home in the archdiocese of Baltimore. The ministry is primarily as an drug abuse facility / AIDS hospice. It was very challenging for me personally, culturally, socially, and spiritually. The sisters live a very disciplined life: daily liturgy of the hours, daily Mass, daily Eucharistic adoration, provide transportation to and from the hospital, medication dispensary, arrange for / organize / lead AA & NA meetings for the residents, provide food, meals, clothing, laundry for themselves and the residents, arrange pastoral visits / internships for seminarians and consecrated religious; arrange field trips for the residents; manage a lay Missionaries of Charity weekly group. It was impressive to see everything they accomplished each day, week, month.

Hitchens was a terribly shallow thinker. All his "great wit" and "iconoclastic thinking" (yeah right) amounts to destroy what's already there. He's never contributed to anything out of his own creation. Anyone can point fingers and name flaws. The single question that can vaporize any Hitchens is this: "Compared to what?"

Thanks for this wise and beautiful sermon, Bishop Barron

Thank you Father Barron. Just a theory. Spiritual darkness comes to everyone: including Jesus as displayed in the garden. But the smile on Mother Teresa’s face, though momentary, was a sign and glimpse of what true happiness and joy that awaits us and Mother Teresa in heaven

I read "Come Be My Light" a while back and as I was reading the book I could feel Jesus presence in Mother Teresa, and I said "She couldn't feel his love because she was the walking Jesus" The people she touched encountered Jesus...and she was looking for that encounter with Jesus...and didn't not know He was in here, but she know now! She denied her self to that point...a Saint!

Excellent, "illuminating" video. The sound seems distorted though, perhaps some sort of sound cancellation effect? Your recent homily had this too.

Reading through some of these responses is really sad. A saint is a person who is flawed just like the rest of us. The difference is that they know it and they try to do their best to avoid sin. They also follow Christ's teachings, do as He instructs them, and be humble(which doesn't mean let people walk all over you). We are all called to be saints, some are called to be big saints so that the rest of us have role models to follow. So instead of us saying, it is to hard to live the way Christ wants me too, we can say, with Christ, I can try too. People don't create miracles, God works through people to create miracles. Why for some and not others? Only He knows, but He allows suffering so that we may unite our suffering with His on the cross to help save souls from eternal damnation. Why? Because sin is graver than we realize and to sacrifice ourselves through our suffering is the greatest love there is, to lay your life down for another! Why? Because God created each and everyone of us in union with our parents out of pure love! God loves you just the way you are, not your sins. He never stops loving you even when you deny His existence...Jesus said it Himself...those who persecute you do so because they have persecuted me. Remember, God loves you and someday He wants you home.

Very helpful. I was trying to do the love without enough prayer.

Sir... please comment on Hunchback of Notre Dame... the Disney film.. really would appreciate your views on it.

Mother Teresa is a beautiful soul for many.

Mother Teresa was an inspiration. God bless.

To journey through darkness is to seek the light. Our fears and doubts provide the motivation to seek the truth. The dark night is the way to a new day.

God bless Saint Teresa of Calcutta and all those who love her❤ She did not just talk the talk. She walked the walk. She understood the words of Jesus: ‘follow me.’ Actions. Not just words.

Amen, In all your getting get understanding.

Hope fades away because "you" fade away, the serpents whisper, the passions ...the world... have no place to root.

What an amazing story of this wonderfully inspirational saint! However, what hope is there for me if such a saintly person has a spiritual darkness for 50 years, and I, at best, a wretched sinner who tries to do the best I can as a devout Catholic, attending church every Sunday, praying every day, saying the rosary often, but falling from Grace every time I turn around...? I don't give up hope, I know God is merciful, but I'm a spiritual 'single celled organism' compared to Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and all others like her. I believe my calling is to be the best Catholic husband & father I can be, and that is my vocation, but wow, am I really making an impact? Do I pass through the eye of the needle to enter the gates of heaven? Anyone else out there feel like this and what advice do you have for a cradle Catholic that only started to embrace his faith at age 30, now almost 48 and still feeling at times like I'm just not 'getting it'?

I am a conservative true believing Catholic, and I think highly of most of Bishop Barron's videos, but like so many good Catholics Bishop Barron seems taken in by this woman. He hasn't bothered to check the facts. That was me, too, until recently. Mother Teresa ran a very slipshod operation that did very little to help the destitute and dying. She had nuns with little or no medical training, mats instead of beds, extremely unsanitary facilities, no separation of the contagious from the non-contagious. At first the Missionaries of Charity lacked resources, true, but once they became famous donations poured in. Mother Teresa could have built nice modern hospices with rooms and beds and had her nuns become at least LPNs. She could have done so much. But what did she do with all these donations? No one knows. There never has been a public accounting. The best guess is that the moneyvsits in banks unused. Mother Teresa may have been guilty of an heresy I will call painism, a belief that physical pain is so beautiful that it should not be allevied. While we all must bear crosses, and while most of us must suffer great pain in our final sicknesses, that doesn't mean it doesn't behoove Christians or medical professionals from alleviating that suffering. Note that Mother herself did not die on a mat with untrained nuns in an unsanitary Calcutta hospice---she died in Switzerland with the best medical care money could buy. I do support her campaigns against abortion, contraception, and ecumenical services, and her evangelization efforts and her emphasis on Jesus.

Hello Bishop Barron! Can you address the videos re: Mother Teresa's "dark side"? Would like to know the truth. Thank you.

Lovely video. I’d like to bless everyone with an inspirational quote of Mother Teresa: “AIDS is just retribution for improper sexual misconduct”. (Washington DC International Health Organisation Lunch Meeting, 1989, long after it was known that anyone could catch AIDS, including children given blood transfusions).

I'm not criticizing Mother Teresa, but sometimes we look at those on the world stage as beacons of faith, instead of those living in anonymity. Intellectually, it is crystal clear there is a God; it's the virtues and promises of God that we must learn to take up our cross about.

Beautiful.

I believe Mother Teresa walked the life of Jesus Christ. Christ went to the limits of man's forsakenness to atone for our sins and to get man on the path towards God. So far was the limit that Jesus himself felt the absence of the divine. Likewise, Mother Teresa went to the depths of man's poverty to radiate the presence of God. It's only fitting that she would have felt the same despair that Jesus as man felt; otherwise, she would not have been human. Her life is indeed inspiring.

C.S. Lewis did point out that because of love being so recognizably good, one could fall into an idolatrous assumption of seeing love as the "supreme good" and acting immorally in the name of "love" e.g. justifying sexual immorality like infidelity "I'm in love". However this would definitely not fall into the definition of love as "willing the good of the other as the other." Lewis focused on love primarily in its accidents (eros, friendship, and so on) rather than its substance which I think is what your definition is.

+Bishop Robert Barron I think that what the critics of Mother Teresa successfully cast doubt on was not her intent, but her competence. So my question is this: What good did she accomplish, and how does it compare to the saintly image of her in peoples minds?

This may be unrelated to the video but I need to ask you a question do you think JRR Tolkien could be saint one day please comment back if you can I would really appreciate it:)

The only one of your videos that has made me cry..

You should really list all the pictures in your videos. They are absolutely beautiful

Bishop Robert Barron, I respect you very much and appreciate all the lessons you so gracefully share with the rest of the world. But I am baffled that you say that too much faith is bad... I know God is always there, and I deep down believe that faith is as infinite as love. I'm almost certain that if everyone had the most faith any human can possibly have, God would be performing miracles through each and every one of us, and it would be Heaven on Earth. I understand there is a reason that the flesh is weak, , but as for faith, I can't think of other thing that it would you but empower you more and more and more. Just like God is absolute Infinity, I believe the blessings would be just as infinite. And if one truly trusts in God with all his/her being, then I honestly feel that there isn't such thing as too much faith. Those are just my thoughts though, I ask God for more faith every day, and I thank Him for keeping me faithful.

I totally agree with you, Bishop. To suffer with Christ is to know Christ. It's part of sanctification.

Mother Theresa was a cruel woman. She didn't provide any end of life care. She claimed that suffering would bring the people closer to God. How can you love someone when you want to maximize their suffering?

When Mother Teresa died no one knew, because the media had broadcasted only the death of Princess Diana that day. Smh

Too much faith? I haven't come close to a mustered seed, and you're saying I can have too much?

Thank you Bishop you're so insightful and inspiring I wonder if Mother Teresa had such deep sadness as I because of believing lies from the Devil and now understanding that the Holy Spirit lives in us and so Jesus is right here with the spirit of compassion that has given us the spirit of himself on the cross loving his children through Mother Teresa .

Why do you hide your Bishops Cross with chain. Bishop Sheen wore it openly and openly stroked it. Please do so!

Answering to 2:40 -- John 15: 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

If one dwells in the feeling or evidence of the absence of God, one is in for quite a ride. How do we get off it ?

FROM: THE WAY OF DIVINE LOVE - SISTER JOSEFA MENENDEZ A prayer given to Sr. Josefa from our Lord Jesus Christ: "O God most holy and just . . . Father of all clemency and of infinite goodness, Thou who didst create man out of love and through love has made him heir to eternal blessings, if he has sinned against Thee through frailty and if he deserves chastisement, accept the merits of Thy Son who offers Himself to Thee as a Victim of expiation. By those divine merits, forgive sinful men, and deign to reinstate them as heirs of Heaven. Oh My Father pity and mercy for souls". Amen. The Way of Divine Love is in video form on line - especially the FULL narration of His Passion as He dictated it to Sr. Josefa. It is WONDERFUL to view! VERY moving...how I wish All would read this book or view it on line in the videos! God bless you and all dear to your heart.

The hollow absence gives me the fire to continue.

Is love synonymous with sacrifice in a Christian understanding?

God is good.

Limitless Love.

why do you have to hide the Cross? Is it because of Church ordinance? Personally I don't like especially Bishops hide the Cross instead of using it as a visible witness to Christ's suffering death and resurrection to save humanity, Forgive my ignorance but please hep understand. IAnd I am a loyal follower of you videos.

Jesus comes to us in distressing disguise we learnt from Mother Teresa as she worked the streets reaching out to those in distress and approaching death.She would never have not known the Spirit of Jesus in her ministry with her fella Sisters.

The sound of this video is horrible. Don't use a gate like that. Please, correct this video to republish.

Holy and radiant clothes please pray for our abuse HEB help missonariesz

I find all this to hard, I am a weak deeply flawed human being

You can overdo love have seen India mothers suffocate their sons with excessive love

St. Theresa pray for us

But what about the accusation on everything bad/shady she did? I need to know what happens with that??

She did say in her own words she “LIKES TO SEE THE POOR, ILL, AND DYING SUFFER.” sounds like some kind of sadistic witch to me

Saint Teresa, mother to all, pray for us and this deteriorated world. You were a shining light of God's love and message to all. Love to you always for your mission and your example to serve with humility.

Better saints than I have hauled up better prayers, at more extremities of need, and god ignores us all.

You've talked before about Hans Urs von Balthasar. Am I correct in detecting a bit of his kenotic motifs in your talking about Jesus on the Cross?

God sent Mother Theresa to India, thank you for that Bishop, once you come to India

Bishop Barron please post a video responding to Hitchens' attack on Mother Theresa.

The people who mock Mother Theresa are so low they can walk under a pregnant ant walking across Hell's basement floor.

Mother Theresa is what nightmares are made of

“We are afraid of the unborn child.” St. Teresa of Calcutta

why is their so many stuff about her bad reviews

I watched a video which claimed she isnt a true Saint because she isnt a true Catholic. What do you think?

There's proof that she disagrees with catholic teaching, what do you think of this?

A great one!

The Judge gave severe punishment. ? The cult wanted him, and got him in ,

"You can't love too much" ... well, just like you said "too much faith becomes credulity", we can also state that "too much love becomes obsession." Can we not? It depends on what you mean by love. You said in this video that love is an act of the will, so then you are saying "you can never act enough of your will?" that sounds odd, and in a certain light, dangerous. Regardless, I don't see anything in this video that would suggest that Mother Teresa actually was the loving, kind person you describe. "she radically loved people" tells us nothing about what she actually did. Her "service to the poor" is stated, but not elaborated on. What service did she actually deliver? Did she give humanitarian aid? Not really. Her "service" was religious in nature. I'm pretty sure the poor would have appreciated medicine, food, and education more, and it would have had a greater impact.

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Ah the Catholics just love their saints don't they ! She was so full of love says our Bishop, and love knows no bounds, there can't be enough of it. So much does Jesus love the people of India and Calcutta in particular, that omnipotent He allowed so many humans to live in abject poverty, misery, disease and death, in that place among many others in the world , and then He sends along this sadistic "saint" who also "loved" suffering so much that pain relief was not allowed in her hospice for the dying, whilst the nuns secretly baptised them. If Mother Tereza was a saint, I'm glad I'm just human.

I saw the movie

In 1997, Mother Teresa underwent an exorcism, mostly because she was experiencing insomnia. Insomnia can be a defining symptom of severe depression, or even psychotic depression. Given the many recent revelations about Mother Teresa's "darkness", which seem to almost exactly fit the DSM-V criteria for severe depression, it seems odd to me that the Bishop would scoff at the idea that Mother Teresa was depressed. It also seems odd to me why the Church would have rather treated her symptoms with exorcism as opposed to modern mental health treatments. Would it have hindered her path to sainthood, if her "darkness" had turned out to be something amenable to modern treatment, and not a gift of the Holy Spirit"? Would a truly happy Mother Teresa, healed of a mental illness, been less qualified for sainthood than the psychologically miserable woman described in recent accounts?

Do you ever do any pieces on some 'blessed' non-catholic saints? like at all?

Charles Boulanger, just as the professors of the pro-English Sorbonne had planned to eliminate the Maid for foreign policy reasons in 1431 Cauchon, but it was the Bishop of Beauvais, another Burgundian and English partisan, cunningly pointed out a Biblical law, Deuteronomy 22:5 to burn her. The only means left to accomplish their end was to convict her of heresy. So the Catholic Church did. The Maid had already passed the test for witchcraft, she was a virgin And in the Church’s eyes, the technical reason for her conviction-dressing like a man-was justifiable to burn her. The Catholic Church haaaaa, they are so nice people.

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Mother Teresa loved her poor so much she refused to give them pain killers. Instead of using those millions people gave her to help the poor it went to Catholic Church. She's no saint.

GOD BLEES

no man or pope can make a person into a saint

10:29 Only one way to holiness is through Jesus' sacrifice!! Not the cross (When you say cross, you obviously mean works) Romans 6: 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

So many books so much foolishness.