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Communion Reflections
 

A lesson to learn from Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa relates:

‘In Calcutta we cook for nine thousand people every day. The day we don’t cook they don’t eat. 

One day a young couple came to our house and gave me a large sum of money.’ “Where did you get so much money?” I asked. ‘And they replied: “We were married two days ago. We decided not to have a wedding feast, and to give the money to feed the poor instead.”

“Why would you do this?” I asked. They replied:
“Because we love each other and wanted to begin our married life with an act of sacrifice.” 

‘Now the amazing thing was this: both of them were high-caste Hindus who normally will have nothing to do with the poor.’