Best Gift is Love: Meditations [Paperback]

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Author), Sean-Patrick Lovett (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1993

This book will bring you closer to the spiritual vision of this courageous woman. In its pages you will encounter her passion for God, her way of life, her way of love.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

In his introduction, Lovett recounts his visit to Calcutta and its squalor in order to understand Mother Teresa's way of love: as he holds the hand of a leper, he is enlightened. This set of 13 meditations, on topics such as purity, joy, hunger, forgiveness, suffering, the family, and vocation, illustrates Mother Teresa's love for the poorest of the poor, the path that underscores all her spirituality and that of the order, Missionaries of Charity, which she founded. According to her, suffering is a gift that relives Christ's passion and contributes to one's redemption. These meditations are important as for who wrote them, an influential Nobel Peace laureate, as they are for their content. Recommended for seminary and public libraries.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

Product Details

• Paperback: 121 pages
• Publisher: Servant Publications (July 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892838140
• ISBN-13: 978-0892838141
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,092,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great gift and/or a wonderful book to ponder., October 17, 2000

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Allan M. Gathercoal "fdoamerica" (Norcross, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Gift is Love: Meditations (Paperback)

Love to Mother was an action, not an emotion. Twice I was with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. Twice I was in the presence of greatness.

She once took my hands in hers and said to me, "Love is giving, so go love. Don't use words where your hands can speak better." Mother was love. Her two gnarled hands stretched out to bring selfless, pure love to the orphan, the dying, the despised. At the entrance to the leprosarium there is a notice which reads: "Where there is great love, there are always great miracles."

This small, 116-page booklet cannot capture the immensity of Mother's love for all humanity, but it can give you a sampling of her spirit. The 35 black-and-white photos of Mother Teresa along with her words of wisdom make this an excellent gift or just a book to put in your pocket and read daily, while commuting, waiting in a line, or somewhere in our love-starved world. Highly recommend.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Blessing, March 30, 2002

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Robert X Weaver (Fort Lauderdale, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Gift is Love: Meditations (Paperback)

What more is there to say? I am not a religious person. But this book brought me to spiritual peace. I feel blessed to have lived during the time this woman walked the face of the earth.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars written with gentle piety, June 2, 2000

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Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLO... (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Gift is Love: Meditations (Paperback)

There is a profundity to Mother Teresa's deceptively simple theology that surpasses the understanding. Rooted in her own experiences, it spreads cheer and peace in a way entirely unlike more "happy" or "optimistic" religious affirmations of faith.