with kindness believes in God, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Obviously, Mother Teresa did both.

So, it seems they are just out to malign her.

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"Money" has no value - people do.

We Christians and Muslims should not be fighting each other. We should respect each other, and work together co-operatively in order to successfully deal with our common enemy, the Jewish Supremacist Zionists.

Amen!~ AMEN!!!

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The jews have trampled and used anyone and everyone for their agenda, even the dead. So it is not surprising that they have chose to use Mother Teresa this time. These evil revisionists can't take away her true giving and selfless deeds or spirit. As for here suposedly questioning her faith, what truely religious person hasn't? In the end, she kept the faith.

..it's one thing for Mother Theresa to question her own faith, thinking inwardly.. but for all theses ZIONIST TV NETWORKS to question her faith, thus promoting their athiest/agnostic/satanist/humanist cults to the gullible goy, is truly despicable..

..that's a low blow!

I completely reject the apostate catholic church, but this lady deserves our respect.

She was a human with love in her heart.

Zionist hate humans.

..because they are FUNDaMENTALLy iNHUMAN, as evidenced by their actions..

..so then what are they?

I was raised Protestant but I have to admire and respect Mother Teresa. It seems obvious to me that God was working through her...

Zionists have no respect for any gentile, whether he or she is Muslim, Catholic, Protestant or any other faith. It is common for Jewish Supremacists, through their media, to degrade and discredit the best of the goyim.

It seems to me that they have an irrational hatred of us all...this must have been taught at an early age and deeply ingrained into their minds.

A priest explained the story of Mother Theresa's faith which is alluded to here. (There is a new book coming out, which is the collection of letters sent to Mother Theresa's confessors. My understanding is that she had around six different confessors.)

The priest told us that Mother Theresa had experienced a very close relationship to God, and she had a vision of Jesus. She was told to serve the poor of Calcutta because Jesus wanted to call more of His brothers from the Indian nation.

From the time she came to India, (although I believe there may have been a brief respite), she experienced a loss of her former closeness with God, which lasted until her death. Where before she felt a very intimate relationship, there was now only emptiness. This same experience has been expressed by other saints, noteably St. John of the Cross, and has been referred to as the "Long Dark Night of the Soul."

The cause of this loss eluded Mother Theresa until one of her confessors, a very wise man, asked her about her prayers to the Lord prior to this crisis. It is related that she asked the Lord to share His sufferings. The confessor reasoned that what Mother Theresa was experiencing was the sense of loss and abandonment that Christ felt on the Cross.

"My God, my God, why hast thou foresaken me?"

It is to Mother Theresa's credit that she continued in her choice to serve the Lord despite her crisis in faith. By helping those that society has cast off as worthless, she showed that all human life has value and should be treated with dignity.

I agree with Justice Seeker that we should all work together. Mother Theresa was sent to work in India, the population of which is mostly Hindu. The primary minority religion in India is Islam. Obviously God does not want us to hate people of other faiths. And as we have seen by Mother Theresa's life, some of the most powerful statements we can make about God are through acts of Mercy and Charity.

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May I suggest a "tune up"? Jesus never lost faith as you suggest, rather He was quoting from scriptures that the prophesy was being fulfilled ( Psalm 21 ) at His crucifixion. Personally, I would have held back on the Beatification (? ) of Mother Teresa (sp) as I believe it was too soon to do a proper and complete examination of her life, but that, obviously, was not my decision to make. She is gone now, and needs our prayers. Peace.
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you said..."Zionists have no respect for any gentile, whether he or she is Muslim, Catholic, Protestant or any other faith.."
Being a gentile has nothing to do with faith..but with bloodlines and ancestry. All Arabs are Semites, whether they are Christian, Muslim, etc. Damn few "Jews" are Semites, but many are Zionists ( I capitalize "Zionist" because I see it as a religion...not a bloodline of Semitic origin. Therefore, one might "see" the Zionist ( mostly gentiles ) acts of atrocity in Palestine, against Palestinians, as anti-Semitic acts as there is no just cause to treat the Palestinian people so inhumanely and with such hatred and violence. Peace to you.
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You said "I completely reject the apostate catholic church, but this lady deserves our respect."
If one can get past your harsh tongue, is it possible they might find a true Christian heart beating within your body ...and soul? Peace

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I said Jesus experienced loss and abandonment. Jesus had been abandoned by his disciples, betrayed by Judas and denied by Peter. He was experiencing the loss of his life.

As you meant to point out, Jesus was making reference to Psalm 22. But I think it is deceptive to say that Christ suffered for our sins and not believe that He actually suffered. Just the same, it is deceptive to say that He was tempted in the flesh in the manner that all mankind is tempted, without believing that He actually felt temptation.

I believe that Jesus was without sin, but that he was fully God and fully man. Though he was tempted, he did not give in to temptation. For Jesus to express the feeling of loss and abandonment, as written in the Psalm, is not to say that Jesus lost faith or that Jesus sinned. Is it sin to recite scripture? Heaven help us if that is the case.

It is difficult to explain all that Jesus felt when He was on the cross because it was though His sufferings that all the sins of mankind were redeemed.

St. Thomas points out that "Christ assumed our defects that He might satisfy for us, that He might prove the truth of His human nature, and that He might become an example of virtue to us."

In this instance St. Thomas notes that Psalm 22 continues: "why hast Thou forsaken Me? Far from My salvation are the words of My sins."

Yet Christ did not sin. St. Thomas goes on to that that "things are said of Christ, first, with reference to His natural and hypostatic property, as when it is said that God became man, and that He suffered for us; secondly, with reference to His personal and relative property, when things are said of Him in our person which nowise belong to Him of Himself ... the first regards "Our Lord and His Body," since "Christ and His Church are taken as one person." And thus Christ, speaking in the person of His members, says (Psalm 21:2): "The words of My sins"--not that there were any sins in the Head."

Thus, we Catholics believe that we enter into communion with Jesus when we eat his body in the Eucharist. We do so acknowledging our unworthiness: "Lord, I am not worthy to receive you..." But yet we enter into union with Him, and Jesus can answer for us. Our sins our removed by the mystery of the cross.

St. Paul says that Christ became sin (2 Cor 5:13) "For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him." Obviously, Christ did not sin, but became sin so that sin would perish on the cross. (As was prefigured by the bronze serpent.) But how can one become sin without sinning?

It is said that Jesus took the sins of mankind upon himself in the Garden of Gethsemane, and that this was the chalice he did not wish to drink: "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from me." And when Christ took on our sins, he sweat blood. It is said that this was because Christ's blood was so pure that this was a natural reaction to our sin.

It is said that Jesus took the sins of mankind upon himself in the Garden of Gethsemane, and that this was the chalice he did not wish to drink: "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from me." And when Christ took on our sins, he sweat blood. It is said that this was because Christ's blood was so pure that this was a natural reaction to our sin.

And Christ did indeed suffer for our sins. This was foretold by Isaiah:
"He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed....

As to being forsaken, St. Thomas raises the objection: It would seem that the Godhead was separated from the flesh when Christ died. For as Matthew relates (27:46), when our Lord was hanging upon the cross He cried out: "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" ... "The man cried out when about to expire by being severed from the Godhead; for since the Godhead is immune from death, assuredly death could not be there, except life departed, for the Godhead is life." And so it seems that when Christ died, the Godhead was separated from His flesh."

In aswer to his own objection, St. Thomas goes on to say: "Such forsaking is not to be referred to the dissolving of the personal union, but to this, that God the Father gave Him up to the Passion: hence there "to forsake" means simply not to protect from persecutors."

In conclusion, I believe that Christ was quoting Psalm 22; that He did suffer real suffering for our sins; that Christ did not sin, but that He does answer for our sin.

When we suffer, I do not think it is wrong to ask God why we suffer, and so if we pray Psalm 22 that would not be sinful. I think it is helpful to remember that we can give up our sufferings to God in the knowledge that God is working to make us more like Himself, and that our suffering is not in vain. It is said that Christ became like us, so that we could become like Him.

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You said "As you meant to point out, Jesus was making reference to Psalm 22"
No it says Psalm 21 in the Douay-Rheims Holy Bible. The only true and correct bible Catholics should read..( until Vatican II, that is )Peace
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From your comment "Mother Theresa's dark night of the soul"
"The confessor reasoned that what Mother Theresa was experiencing was the sense of loss and abandonment that Christ felt on the Cross.

"My God, my God, why hast thou foresaken me?" Posted by Christopher Marlowe....
This is what I was referring to this statement right here, look up, above these few last lines. See? The "confessor" to Mother Theresa didn't understand the meaning of the scriptures and of Psalm 21. Jesus, being God, could never feel abandoned by Himself, and the confessor is too muddle-headed to understand that..and you are " kicking your foot against the goad" by not admitting this truth. That's all I was saying. Peace

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I never mentioned the word "Semite", I said "Zionist's seem to hate all Gentiles", and by Gentile I mean non-Jewish people, or as the Jewish Supremacists call us, "goyim". I'm aware that most Jews today are not Semites, and I'm aware that many Zionists are not Jews. I perhaps should have said "Jewish Supremacists hate all Gentiles regardless of whether they are Christian, Muslim, Athiest, Hindu or anything else".

Before Zionism ever existed there was a belief in Jewish Supremacism, which originated from a book they believe in called the Talmud. Even many athiest Jews are influenced by the Talmud, and consider themselves to be the "Chosen Race" even though they're not really a "race" as such.

I should add to my last comment, the Jewish Supremacists seem to hate Christians and Muslims more than the rest of the "goyim" (non-Jews).

You Said "Even many athiest Jews are influenced by the Talmud, and consider themselves to be the "Chosen Race" even though they're not really a "race" as such."

justice seeker | Wed, 2007-08-29 08:36
Atheist "Jews" that are not Jews by race? Isn't that an oxymoron?
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I feel like I'm talking into a vacuum.

You made a statement: Jesus never lost faith as you suggest, rather He was quoting from scriptures that the prophesy was being fulfilled ( Psalm 21 ) at His crucifixion.

In my post, I went to great lengths to explain that I never said that Jesus lost his faith.

Now, you say: "This is what I was referring to this statement right here, look up, above these few last lines. See? The "confessor" to Mother Theresa didn't understand the meaning of the scriptures and of Psalm 21. Jesus, being God, could never feel abandoned by Himself, and the confessor is too muddle-headed to understand that..and you are " kicking your foot against the goad" by not admitting this truth."

This is what I wrote: The confessor reasoned that what Mother Theresa was experiencing was the sense of loss and abandonment that Christ felt on the Cross.

Now should I misquote you and then argue against what I said? A dialogue involves two people talking about the same thing. One of them can't be off in his own world inventing things for the other one to say. They both have to respond to what the other person actually said. And if a person is going to nitpick about what another person says, then they should very careful about getting it straight.

It's very easy to say that a person is kicking his foot against the goad, but it's another thing altogether to actually show that what they said is wrong.

I said that Jesus felt loss and abandonment on the cross. I said that Jesus' suffering was real, and that Isaiah predicted this. I said that St. Thomas interpretted "forsaken" to mean "not to protect from persecutors" rather than a dissolving of the personal union.

Are you suggesting that, when Christ was betrayed and abandoned, that he did not feel abandoned? Are you saying that Christ did not feel a sense of loss when he saw his own impending death? I am not Christ so I cannot claim to know what He felt, but I think I would feel these things.

As to my bible, I use the New Catholic Study Bible. But if I am quoting something online, I will use King James, NIV, New American... I know there are minor variations here and there, but I don't get bent out of shape over it.

Psalm 22 in my Bible begins: "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?...."
I have a total of 150 Psalms. If you have less than this, I would be willing to loan you some of my Psalms...
Actually, I looked up the Duay-Rheims online and found this note:
"In the [later] Hebrew, this Psalm 9 verses 22-39 become Psalm 10 and Psalm 147 is joined to Psalm 146, giving different numbers to Psalms 10-146. Alleluia." Mystery solved.
So when I was wrong when I said that "you meant to point out" Jesus was referencing Psalm 22, because you meant Psalm 21. I had no idea there was a different count.

I have to say that reading this Duay-Rheims edition online has been an inspiration to me. I really like the language. I might try to acquire a print version to read.
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Are you a Zionist troll?

"Is it an oxymoron?" You seem to be deliberately missing my point, everybody else got it...

Jewish Supremacists are irrational. They are not a race as such, but believe they are, in fact they believe they are the "Chosen Race". Many of them hate white men, but they are white men themselves. They accuse others of anti-Semitism, but unlike the Palestians, they are mostly European not Semitic. So in their gradual genocide against the Palestinians, they are actually being anti-Semites of the worst kind themselves.

They call themselves "Jews", but do not really represent a religion, either, because many of the so-called "Jews" are athiests. They don't make sense...

Please don't argue in a childlike way and ask silly questions like that. If you are so really naive as I think you're pretending to be, go to some of the links to other websites and do some reading.

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