Top

It is easy to find truth; it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it. ~Fulton J. Sheen

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa

Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all. ~G.K.Chesterton

Our brains today are big enough. Could it be that our hearts are too small? ~Fulton J. Sheen

If there were no God, there would be no atheists. ~G.K. Chesterton

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. ~Mother Teresa

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be. ~Fulton J. Sheen

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people. ~Fulton J. Sheen

 

My Calcutta

           I was a young girl when I heard a speech from Mother Teresa, many in the crowd asked to come to Calcutta to help, she responded surprisingly that we must go and find our own Calcutta.  This struck my heart in a way I cannot describe.  Today, in the United States, I would venture to say that we have more poor than Calcutta; we have the poor in spirit.  I can say from personal experience that as I laid in the gutter of sin, the only difference between myself and the soul dying in the streets of Calcutta what that at least they knew they were dying...for I was not even aware of my own spiritual death.  This is the most tragic of situations, when our culture prefers the gutter, encourages the gutter and at the same time ignores those in the gutter of sin.  

          I think of all the women out there who have been lied to about what mainstream beauty is, what love is and why God and virtue are not "in vogue"; I think of all the women who suffer in the name of 'freedom'. Freedom is not doing whatever you want to do, but doing what you should do.  Pope Benedict XVI spoke about this freedom in his address to a group of young people: 

"How many young people have been offered a hand which in the name of freedom or experience has led them to addiction, to moral or intellectual confusion, to hurt, to a loss of self-respect, even to despair and so tragically and sadly to the taking of their own life?  Dear friends, truth is not an imposition. Nor is it simply a set of rules. It is a discovery of the One who never fails us; the One whom we can always trust. In seeking truth we come to live by belief because ultimately truth is a person: Jesus Christ. That is why authentic freedom is not an opting out. It is an opting in; nothing less than letting go of self and allowing oneself to be drawn into Christ's very being for others". 

                 'My Calcutta' is how I am attempting to reach out to women who need a helping hand, those who suffer from the "freedoms" of the modern world that chain us to sin, despair and unhappiness.  It is my hope that all women come to know their worth and dignity as a child of God.  It is my hope that all women refuse to believe in the lies from the culture of death and choose life, choose love and choose freedom in Jesus Christ.