MOTHER TERESA'S MESSAGE TO FOURTH UN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE

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This was a posting on the alt.feminism NewsGroup

 

 

 

I am not a christian - but the clarity, humility and WISDOM of Mother

Theresa's message touched me - unfortunatley most of the Western mercenary

harridans at the Bejing Conference rejected it out of hand for being "off

message" - still that only serves to validate her words and criticism.

 

MOTHER TERESA'S MESSAGE TO FOURTH UN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE

Source http://www.ewtn.com/New_library/MT_woman.htm

[The following message is being sent by Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the UN

Women's Conference in Beijing:]

 

Dear Friends,

 

I am praying for God's blessing on all who are taking part in the Fourth

World Conference on Women in Beijing. I hope that this Conference will help

everyone to know, love, and respect the special place of women in God's plan

so that they may fulfill this plan in their lives.

 

I do not understand why some people are saying that women and men are

exactly the same, and are denying the beautiful differences between men and

women. All God's gifts are good, but they are not all the same. As I often

say to people who tell me that they would like to serve the poor as I do,

"What I can do, you cannot. What you can do, I cannot. But together we can

do something beautiful for God." It is just this way with the differences

between women and men.

 

God has created each one of us, every human being, for greater things-- to

love and to be loved. But why did God make some of us men and others women?

Because a woman's love is one image of the love of God, and a man's love is

another image of God's love. Both are created to love, but each in a

different way. Woman and man complete each other, and together show forth

God's love more fully than either can do it alone.

 

That special power of loving that belongs to a woman is seen most clearly

when she becomes a mother. Motherhood is the gift of God to women. How

grateful we must be to God for this wonderful gift that brings such joy to

the whole world, women and men alike! Yet we can destroy this gift of

motherhood, especially by the evil of abortion, but also be thinking that

other things like jobs or positions are

more important than loving, than giving oneself to others. No job, no plans,

no possessions, no idea of "freedom" can take the place of love. So anything

that destroys God's gift of motherhood destroys His most precious gift to

women-- the ability to love as a woman.

 

God told us, "Love your neighbor as yourself." So first I am to love myself

rightly, and then to love my neighbor like that. But how can I love myself

unless I accept myself as God has made me? Those who deny the beautiful

differences between men and women are not accepting themselves as God has

made them, and so cannot love the neighbor. They will only bring division,

unhappiness, and destruction of peace to the world. For example, as I have

often said, abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today,

and those who want to make women and men the same are all in favor of

abortion.

 

Instead of death and sorrow, let us bring peace and joy to the world To do

this we must beg God for His gift of peace and learn to love and accept each

other as brothers and sisters, children of God. We know that the best place

for children to learn how to love and to pray is in the family, by seeing

the love and prayer of their mother and father. When families are broken or

disunited, many children grow up not knowing how to love and pray. A country

where many families have been destroyed like this will have many problems. I

have often seen, especially in the rich countries, how children turn to

drugs or other things to escape feeling unloved and rejected.

 

But when families are strong and united, children can see God's special love

in the love of their father and mother and can grow to make their country a

loving and prayerful place. The child is God's best gift to the family and

needs both mother and father because each one shows God's love in a special

way. The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay

together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And

works of love are always works of peace.

 

So let us keep the joy of loving in our hearts and share this joy with all

we meet. My prayer for all of the delegates, and for every woman whom the

Beijing Conference is trying to help, is that each one may be humble and

pure like Mary so as to live in love and peace with one another and make our

families and our world something beautiful for God.

 

Let us pray.

 

All for the glory of God and good of souls.

 

God bless you.

 

Mother Teresa, MC

 

 

 

--

Phil

(Politically Incorrect And Proud Of It)