You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.

This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute, and joining me is Dr. Mark Geesechek, who is a professor here at the August the Institute as well. And we're going to talk about Mother Teresa of Calcutta, this incredible

saint that God gave the church in our recent modern times. And, you know, every saint has a

story that's remarkable. And every saint, especially Mother Teresa, has something to teach us.

And I think Mother has several things to teach us.

And I know that for myself and for Dr. Mark Geesechak, we both have had the privilege

and the blessing of giving retreats for the missionary of charity sisters, Mother Teresa's sisters,

at different convents, for their contemplative order, some for their active order.

And I've had the blessing to do that all up and down the East Coast, down the West Coast,

and kind of all over in the United States.

And I know that Dr. Mark, you've had the opportunity of going several times.

Now, was it three years in a row?

You've been invited to Calcutta to give a retreat at the mother house.

And so that just has given us a real personal relationship with the mission and charity sisters,

and in a sense with all these great daughters, spiritual daughters of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

And so Mother Teresa is somebody that we have a particular fondness for and wanted to have a

conversation, which we haven't prescripted.

We don't do that for any of these Form Now conversations, but we just want to make a conversation

about mother and really dive into what does she have to teach us today we know she did a lot of

great works and everyone knows many of those great works but what what can we learn and how can she

help us today let's talk about that mark yeah yeah mother teresa uh is such a profound person right

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