Mother Teresa of Calcutta – Year of Faith (7)

The fruit of prayer is faith.
If we pray,/ then we believe.
If we believe,/ then we will love –
because the fruit of faith is love,
and the fruit of love is service.
Similarly, if we want to deepen our faith,
we must deepen our oneness with Christ.

Without seeing him,/ we pray to him,
we turn to him,/ we cling to him,
we love him/ without seeing him.

Faith
is the most beautiful gift God can give
to a a human being –
to believe that He IS,/ and that Christ IS…
God from God/ Love from Love
true God from true God,/ begotten not made;
one in substance with the Father,
by whom all things were made…

And yet he became so small,
he became a human being like us,
to make it possible for us to believe.
To increase our faith
he made himself the Bread of Life –
even a child can break that Bread,
even a child can eat that Bread.
This is humility in the action of faith,
and faith in the action of humility.

(from The Best Gift is Love, 1982)