Mother Teresa: In the Shadow of Our Lady

by Joseph Langford

Mother Teresa In the Shadow of Our Lady by Joseph Langford. Published by Our Sunday Visitor,2007, Hardcover

Genres: Catholic, Faith, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Prayer

121 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Fr. Joseph Langford, saw the book about Mother Teresa of Calcutta, “Something Beautiful for God”; the photo on the cover of the book touched him profoundly and from that moment he had a great desire to know her and her charism and to adapt it to the life of the priest. After his ordination to the priesthood, he founded, together with Mother Teresa, the Corpus Christi Movement for diocesan priests who wished to participate and live the spirituality of Mother Teresa of Calcutta in their priestly life. his Movement began to grow and to spread among priests in various parts of the world until on July 16, 1983, the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Father Joseph had the inspiration to ask Mother Teresa to found a community of priests in the charism of the Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa accepted to carry out this project which began in the city of New York as the Corpus Christi Fraternity. Soon became the religious congregation of the Missionaries of Charity Fathers.

In 1986 Father Joseph wrote the meditation, “I Thirst for you,” which has been translated into many languages and distributed throughout the world. This meditation is an expression of the spiritual sentiments that marked his life and his pastoral work. Fr. Langford spent most of the rest of his life working among the poorest of the poor in Tijuana, Mexico. He also wrote and published two important books, one about the Virgin Mary, and the second, “Secret Fire,” a profound meditation on the mystery of the thirst of Jesus, the center of Mother Teresa’s spirituality.

Reviews

[booklady · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful synopsis of the spirituality of Mother Teresa, Founder of the Missionaries of Charity by Fr. Joseph Langford, co-founder of the Missionaries of Charity Fathers. Best if read after some other background books by and about Mother Teresa such as: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta and Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own.

[Nick Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I started this the last night of retreat just because it wasn’t too long and I thought I would just make my way through certain parts. I couldn’t put it down wow it was all so good.

“He will transform our suffering and raise it to the Father. Though the pain might remain, our anguish will turn to peace. There will be healing of bitterness, of resentment, and of despair. Jesus does not take away all our wounds, any more than the Father erased all of his wounds. Rather, he disinfects them and glorifies them. For Jesus, the Resurrection was not an emergency room where the Father took away all the signs of the Passion. Jesus rose with his wounds, wounds now transformed from darkness to light, dug into his hands in time and in pain and now become eternal fonts of light and blessing and glory.”

That was really long but wow I love the Saints I can’t wait to hangout with them for all of eternity

[Penelope · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really helped me to understand some aspects of the BVM that I had been struggling with for a long time, while also unpacking aspects of Mother Teresa's spirituality that were fascinating & enlightening.

[Donna Syler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! What an excellent book. So many rich nuggets. Mother Teresa was such a special child of God.

[Nancy P.]

What do I need to do to start reading this book?

[Oceanna Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book!

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow, what a special lady!