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マザー・テレサが生前の手紙で信仰に疑問を持っていた事がわかった
マザー・テレサにしてさえ、彼女の信仰に疑問を持っていた（少なくとそんな時期もあった）。いいじゃないですか！それが、単なる狂信者や原理主義者と違うという事の証明です。たとえ、そうでも、彼女が生涯でなしてきた行いが尊い事は変わりないし、同じ様に時には迷う私たちにも彼女の様になれる！と勇気づけてくれる様です。
バチカンがセイントに認証しようがしまいが、全世界で彼女の生き方に向けられる共感や尊敬は何ら影響を受ける事はない。
最近、「硫黄島」戦争映画の「父親たちの星条旗」を見ましたが、「ヒーロー」なんてのは国家の為に命を捧げるなんていうバカゲタ事を理解させる為に必要なでっちあげの概念です。本当は「ヒーロー」たちも、真実ありのままの自分たちの姿を理解して覚えてて欲しいに違い有りません。
バチカンが与える「セイント」の称号もしかり。彼女も悩みながら自分の中の不信心と闘ったのだと理解してほしいのでは？
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3521905&page=1
Struggles of a Pious Leader
Throughout Her Life Mother Teresa Wrote Privately of Struggles With Her Faith
A collection of Mother Teresa's private letters are being published as part of the campaign for her sainthood. (ABCNEWS)From World News with Charles Gibson Aug. 24, 2007
Share In dozens of letters spanning 66 years, Mother Teresa described the "emptiness" she felt and confessed her struggles with faith and the existence of heaven in pages she had planned to have destroyed.
A decade after her death, they have been published in the book "Come By My Light" as part of the petition for her sainthood.
"The lives of the Saints are personal, but they are not private," said Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk who is publishing the letters. "The documents are really are quite valuable in that they speak of her own holiness and the value … to people who can relate to what she was going through."
They offer surprising revelations, including one instance in which she writes "no faith -- no love -- no zeal -- [The saving of] souls holds no attraction - Heaven means nothing … it has been like this more or less from the time I started 'the work.'"
The book includes her Jan. 13, 1947 letter in which she wrote to the Archbishop of Calcutta to request permission to found her own order, The Missionaries of Charity.
Several years later, she composed a letter as an exercise from her spiritual adviser to express her devotion to Jesus and passionately wrote "I want to satiate your thirst with every single drop of blood that you can find in me. Don't allow me to do you wrong in any way. " Click here to read the letter (courtesy of Doubleday).
To millions her work still shines as the example of Christ-like devotion. It brought her the Nobel Peace Prize and beatification by Pope John Paul. Yet nine years after she founded her mission in Calcutta she wrote, "What do I labour for? If there be no God -- there can be no soul -- if there is no Soul then Jesus -- You also are not true."
"Even the sisters around her had no idea of the length and the depth," Kolodiejchuk said.
Faith vs. Benevolence
As many Catholics learn how long she suffered this crisis of faith, they are even more awed by her deeds.
"Unlike the other saints, who might have been going through their day with a lot of consolation from their prayer, Mother Teresa was running on empty and doing all these wonderful works," said Father James Martin.
But while the faithful see her struggle as inspirational, some atheists are taking it as confirmation of their own rational doubts and proof that the faithless can display enormous benevolence.
"Of course nonbelievers all over the world display compassion," said Dan Barker of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. "She was forced to go through the motions and admitted her own hypocrisy."
Ten years after her death, her Missionaries of Charity claims to have over a million volunteers comforting the sick and orphaned in 40 countries. This book is certain to stir those who pray the Vatican will canonize the nun from the slums. If it does, Mother Teresa may just be the patron saint of skeptics.
参考:映画「マザー・テレサ」のｅｎｄｉｎｇにあった語録を追加しておきます どん兵衛
DATE:2006/10/19 22:50
URL:http://www.asyura2.com/0601/revival1/msg/232.html
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