Thanks to this prayer, graces were obtained from Mother Teresa

Da Paolo Tessione - August 11, 2018

"Blessed Teresa of Calcutta,
you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross
to become a living flame within you.
You have become a light of His love for all.
Get from the heart of Jesus ... (ask for grace).
Teach me to let Jesus in and make him own my whole being,
so completely that even my life can radiate
His light and love for others.
Amen".

NOVENA THE HONOR OF MOTHER TERESA
First Day: Know the Life Jesus
"Do you really know the living Jesus, not from books, but from being with him in your heart?"

“Am I convinced of Christ's love for me and mine for him? This belief is the rock on which holiness is built. What must we do to achieve this belief? We must know Jesus, love Jesus, serve Jesus. Knowledge will make you strong like death. We know Jesus through faith: meditating on His Word in the Scriptures, listening to Him speak through His Church, and through an intimate union in prayer ”.

“Look for Him in the tabernacle. Fix your eyes on Him who is the Light. Place your heart close to His Divine Heart and ask Him for the grace to know Him. "

Thought for the day: “Do not look for Jesus in distant lands; it's not there. it is close to you, it is within you. "

Ask for the grace to know Jesus intimately.

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross to become a living flame within you, so as to be a light of His Love for everyone.

Get from the heart of Jesus ... (ask for grace ...) teach me to let Jesus penetrate me and take possession of my whole being, so completely, that even my life is an irradiation of his light and His love for the others.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of our joy, pray for me. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Second day: Jesus loves you
"Am I convinced of Jesus' love for me, and mine for Him?" This belief is like sunlight that makes the lifeblood grow and the buds of holiness bloom. This belief is the rock on which holiness is built.

“The devil could use the wounds of life, and sometimes our own mistakes, to lead you to believe that it is impossible that Jesus really loves you, that he really wants to remain united to you. This is a danger for all of us. And it is so sad, because it is absolutely the opposite of what Jesus wants, which is waiting to tell you ... He always loves you, even when you don't feel worthy ".

“Jesus loves you with tenderness, you are precious to Him. Turn to Jesus with great confidence and allow Him to love you. The past belongs to His mercy, the future to His providence and the present to His love. "

Thought for the day: "Don't be afraid - you are precious to Jesus. He loves you".

Ask for the grace to be convinced of Jesus' unconditional and personal love for you.

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross to become a living flame within you, so as to be a light of His Love for everyone.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of our joy, pray for me. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Third day: Listen to Jesus who says to you: "I am thirsty"
"In His agony, in His suffering, in His solitude, He said very clearly:" Why did you abandon Me? " On the Cross he was so terribly alone, and abandoned and suffering. ... At that climax he proclaimed: "I am thirsty". ... And people thought he had a normal "physical" thirst, and immediately they gave him vinegar; but it was not what he was thirsty for - he was thirsty for our love, our affection, that intimate attachment to him and that sharing in his passion. And it's strange that he used that word. He said, "I'm thirsty" instead of "Give me your love." ... The thirst for Jesus on the Cross is not imagination. She expressed herself in this word: "I am thirsty". Listen to Him as he says it to you and me. Really a gift from God. "

"If you listen with your heart, you will hear, you will understand ... Until you experience deep inside that Jesus is thirsty for you, you will not be able to start knowing who He wants to be for you, or who He wants you to be for him".

“Follow in His footsteps in search of souls. Bring him and his light to the homes of the poor, especially to the most needy souls. Spread the charity of His Heart wherever you go, so as to quench His thirst for souls ”.

Thought of the Day: “Do you realize ?! God is thirsty that you and I offer ourselves to quench His thirst. "

Ask for the grace to understand Jesus' cry: "I am thirsty".

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross to become a living flame within you, so as to be a light of His Love for everyone.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of our joy, pray for me. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Fourth day: Our Lady will help you
“How much we need Mary to teach us what it means to satiate the thirsty love of God for us, that Jesus came to reveal to us! She did it so beautifully. Yes, Mary has allowed God to take full possession of her life through her purity, her humility and her faithful love ... Let us strive to grow, under the guidance of our Heavenly Mother, in these three important inner attitudes, of the soul , which give joy to the Heart of God and allow Him to join us, in Jesus and through Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit. it is by doing this that, like Mary our Mother, we will allow God to take full possession of our whole being - and through us God will be able to reach with His Thirsty Love all those with whom we come into contact, especially the poor ".

"If we stay beside Mary, she will give us her spirit of loving trust, total abandonment and joy".

Thought for the day: "How close we must remain to Mary who understood what depth of Divine Love was revealed when, at the foot of the Cross, she heard Jesus' cry:" I am thirsty ".

Ask for the grace to learn from Mary to quench the thirst of Jesus as she did.

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross to become a living flame within you, so as to be a light of His Love for everyone.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of our joy, pray for me. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Fifth day: Trust in Jesus blindly
"Have faith in the good God, who loves us, who takes care of us, who sees everything, who knows everything and can do everything for my good and for the good of souls".

“Love Him with confidence without looking back, without fear. Give yourself to Jesus without reservations. He will use you to accomplish great things, provided that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness. Believe in Him, surrender to Him with blind and absolute trust, because He is Jesus ”.

“Jesus never changes. ... Trust him lovingly, trust him with a big smile, always believing that he is the way to the Father, he is the light in this world of darkness ".

"In all sincerity we must be able to look up and say:" I can do everything in the One who gives me strength ". With this statement from Saint Paul, you must have a firm confidence in doing your job - or rather the work of God - well, efficiently, even perfectly, with Jesus and for Jesus. Be also convinced that you cannot do anything alone. , you have nothing but sin, weakness and misery; that you have received all the gifts of nature and grace that you possess from God ”.

“Mary also showed such full trust in God by accepting to be an instrument for His plan of salvation, despite her being nothing, because she knew that He who is Almighty could do great things in Her and through Her. She trusted. Once you say your "yes" to him ... that's enough. He never doubted again. "

Thought for the day: “Trust in God can achieve anything. it is our emptiness and our smallness that God needs, and not our fullness ". Ask for the grace to have unshakable trust in the power and love of God for you and everyone.

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross to become a living flame within you, so as to be a light of His Love for everyone.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of our joy, pray for me. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Sixth day: Authentic love is abandonment
"" I am thirsty "makes no sense if, through total abandonment, I do not give everything to Jesus."

“How easy it is to conquer God! We give to God ourselves, and so we possess God; and there is nothing that belongs to us more than God. For if we abandon ourselves to him, we will possess him as he possesses himself; that is, we will live His very Life. The compensation with which God repays our abandonment is Himself. We become worthy of possessing Him when we surrender to Him in a supernatural way. Authentic love is abandonment. The more we love, the more we abandon ourselves ”.

“You often see electrical wires next to each other: small or large, new or old, inexpensive or expensive. Unless and until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That thread is you and it's me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, produce the Light of the world: Jesus; or to refuse to be used and to let the darkness spread. The Madonna was the most shining thread. He allowed God to fill it to the brim, so that with His abandonment - "Let it be done in me according to Your word" - it became full of Grace; and, of course, when it was filled with this current, the Grace of God, she went in haste to Elizabeth's house to connect the electrical wire, John, to the current: Jesus ”.

Thought for the day: "Let God use you without consulting you."

Ask for the grace to abandon your whole life in God.

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross to become a living flame within you, so as to be a light of His Love for everyone.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of our joy, pray for me. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Seventh day: God loves those who give with joy
"To bring joy to our soul, the Good God has given himself to us ... Joy is not simply a matter of temperament. In the service of God and souls, it is always difficult - one more reason why we should try to possess it and make it grow in our hearts. Joy is prayer, joy is strength, joy is love. Joy is a web of love with which many souls can be captured. God loves those who give with joy. It gives more, who gives with joy. If in work you encounter difficulties and accept them with joy, with a big smile, in it, and on any other occasion, the others will see your good works and give glory to the Father. The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy. A joyful heart is the natural result of a heart inflamed with love. "

“Without joy there is no love, and love without joy is not authentic love. So we have to bring that love and that joy into today's world. "

“Joy was also the strength of Mary. Our Lady is the first Missionary of Charity. She was the first to receive Jesus physically and to bring him to others; and he did it in a hurry. Only joy could give her this strength and speed in going to do the work of a servant ".

Thought for the day: "Joy is a sign of union with God, of the presence of God. Joy is love, the natural result of a heart inflamed with love".

Ask for the grace to keep the joy of loving

and to share this joy with everyone you meet.

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross to become a living flame within you, so as to be a light of His Love for everyone.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of our joy, pray for me. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Eighth day: Jesus made himself the Bread of Life and the hungry
“He manifested his love by giving us his own life, his whole being. "Despite being rich he made himself poor" for you and me. He gave himself completely. He died on the cross. But before he died he made himself Bread of Life to satisfy our hunger for love, for Him. He said: "If you do not eat My Flesh and drink My Blood, you will not have eternal life". And the greatness of this love lies in this: He became hungry, and said: "I was hungry and you gave Me to eat", and if you do not feed Me you will not be able to enter eternal life. This is the way of giving of Christ. And today God continues to love the world. Keep sending me and me to prove that he loves the world, that he still feels compassion for the world. It is we who must be His Love, His compassion in today's world. But in order to love we must have faith, because faith in action is love, and love in action is service. That's why Jesus made himself Bread of Life, so that we can eat and live, and see Him in the disfigured face of the poor ".

“Our life must be interwoven with the Eucharist. In the Eucharist we learn from Jesus how much God is thirsty to love us and how much he is thirsty in return for our love and the love of souls. From Jesus in the Eucharist we receive the light and strength to quench his thirst. "

Thought for the day: “Do you believe that He, Jesus, is in the form of the Bread, and that He, Jesus, is in the hungry, in the naked, in the sick, in the one who is not loved, in the homeless, in the 'defenseless and desperate ”.

Ask for the grace to see Jesus in the Bread of Life and to serve him in the disfigured face of the poor.

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross to become a living flame within you, so as to be a light of His Love for everyone.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of our joy, pray for me. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Ninth day: Holiness is Jesus who lives and acts in me
"Our works of charity are nothing more than the" overflow "of our love for God from within. Therefore the one who is most united to God loves the neighbor more ".

“Our activity is authentically apostolic only to the extent that we allow Him to act in us and through us - with His power - with His desire - with His love. We must become saints not because we want to feel saints, but because Christ must be able to live his life in us fully ". "We consume ourselves with him and for him. Let him look with your eyes, speak with your tongue, work with your hands, walk with your feet, think with your mind and love with your heart. Isn't this a perfect union, a continuous prayer of love? God is our loving Father. Let your light of love shine so [intensely] before men who, seeing your good works (washing, sweeping, cooking, loving your husband and your children), can give glory to the Father " .

“Be holy. Holiness is the easiest way to quench the thirst of Jesus, his thirst for you and yours for him. "

Thought for the day: "Mutual charity is the safest way to great holiness" Ask for the grace to become a saint.

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Jesus' thirsty love on the Cross to become a living flame within you, so as to be a light of His Love for everyone.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of our joy, pray for me. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Conclusion
Whenever Mother Teresa was asked to speak, she always repeated with firm conviction: "Holiness is not a luxury for the few, but a simple duty for you and me". This holiness is intimate union with Christ: "Believe that Jesus, and Jesus alone, is life, - and holiness is none other than the same Jesus who lives intimately within you".

By living in this intimate union with Jesus in the Eucharist and in the poor "around the clock", as she used to say, Mother Teresa has become an authentic contemplative in the heart of the world. “Therefore, by doing the work with him, we pray the work: since doing it with him, doing it for him, doing it to him, we love him. And, loving him, we become more and more one with him, and allow him to live his life within us. And this living of Christ in us is holiness ”.