Meditations from a Simple Path

by Mother Teresa

A collection of spiritually sustaining meditations selected from Mother Teresa's message to the world "A Simple Path". This book should be of help and comfort not only to Catholics, but also to non-Catholics who are interested in her views on how to help others as well as ourselves.

Genres: Catholic, Christian, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Prayer, Religion, Christianity

88 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 1996

About the author

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu[6] (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta,[7] was an Albanian-Indian[4] Roman Catholic nun and missionary.[8] She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.

In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and also profess a fourth vow – to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."[9]

Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and canonized by Pope Francis.

Reviews

[Marilyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

These are excerpts from her book "A Simple Path". She taught high school geography for 20 years in Calcutta before starting her own order.


Here are some a of my faves:"We don't need to look for happiness, if we have love for others we'll be given it. It is a gift of God."
"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing."
"I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks."
Then she ends with the parable of the sheep and the goats, Matthew 25. Beautiful. I will listen more in my prayers and focus more on loving others as an end, the point.

[Meg Jacobus · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up this book as the first in my year long reading plan of Catholic literature. This one is just lil snippets from Mother Teresa’s larger book and dang the snipping was good. There were not a lot of words in this book, but it took time to read each passage and just marinade in it. I wish I could like, make each passage a poster and hang in an artful way on my walls, or maybe like, rotate them as wallpapers on my phone? Idk, I want to reread this one often. So good. I might need to pick up the full book now. Overall, a great kickoff to a year of reading.

[Jeanine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love, love, love these words of peace and meditation from one of my favorite saints! Her words are simple yet powerful. This includes a prayer from John Henry Cardinal Newman, and the words in it speak directly to the heart.

[Mary Ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Audio

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book was very short. Only 88 very small pages, and most of the pages had just a few sentences on them. I did not like the selection of quotes either. Not worth purchasing.

[Paul H. Rogers · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best

You cannot go wrong with the writings of Mother Teresa. They will enlighten and bless you always. It is not always easy but it is blessed

[Lenore · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a short book of devotions. Mother Teresa's thoughts are simple, uplifting, and straight to the point.

[Mindy Albiston]

Simple but perhaps overly so

I like the format, which is just a collection of basically unrelated short devotions. I took an even shorter selection of each and read them before dinner for a couple weeks. I do not know how the full version reads, but the selections have been so pared down that the entire book reads almost like a series of one liners.

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I purchased this in audio via Audible. It is gorgeous. Mother is so gracious, wise and full of love. You can hear the smile in her words. The narrator is truly excellent. She sounds quite similar to Mother herself. I fall asleep listening to these reflections every night.

[Erik]

Included in the "Spiritual Classics" section of Fr. John McCloskey's 100-book Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan.

[Shirlsd]

Simple Path by Mother Teresa (1995)

[Patty · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book is truly lovely.

[Cathy · Rating 1 out of 5]

It was a shortened version of Mother Tereasa's book A Simple Path. No need to read both books.

[Janet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short but sweet.