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“Your Mother is such a special creation that I was enchanted to read it as soon as I unpacked the package… it’s more than an essay, it’s a voice, precisely Mother Teresa’s voice whispering in your ear… it’s a precious work, just like its author”.

*Simona Lo Iacono****

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The Secret Life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta,

her heart, her soul,

her poems, and prayers

in the new book by Maria Amata Di Lorenzo

Teresa of Calcutta

A Heart Inhabited by God

published in Italian, English, French, and Spanish

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“Intense and greatly written as it is in your style”

“I’m reading your beautiful book about Mother Teresa of Calcutta: intense and greatly written as it is in your style. But above all, you know how to make us journey through the words of one of the most significant women of the 20th century, a true saint. You lead us into the life and works of Mother Teresa with depth, allowing us to contemplate and granting us (certainly to me) an oasis of peace and spiritual fullness. I thank you for all that you do and write…” – Delia Morea, writer

The Book

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was one of the most beloved figures of the 20th century, the founder of a congregation whose charisma is dedicated to serving the least fortunate. She was a friend to the poorest on Earth: she had chosen to be so “for the love of Jesus.”

Mother Teresa left us at the sunset of the old millennium, but her testimony continues to be a living message of hope for this new advancing millennium, amidst atrocities and flashes of beauty, gestures of misery, and bursts of love.

This book tells us about her in her secret and in some ways unprecedented folds…

What Readers Say on Amazon

“Beautiful book, it deserves more than 5 stars!”

It’s almost two hundred pages, but they are read one after the other, and when you finish, you’re sorry and would like to read more. Beautiful book, moving, very intense, the most beautiful one about Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and I’ve read them all. What sets this book apart from others? First and foremost, it’s written with poetry. A warm, refined, elegant style, a subject treated with great attention to detail, you can see that the author has conducted very thorough research, and also deep reflections. The result is a splendid portrait of Mother Teresa, a reading that soothes the soul, a book to absolutely recommend, it’s worth it! – Pietro Paolo – April 30, 2016

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“Illuminating”

A book written with the heart, and you can tell because when you read it, you find yourself next to Mother Teresa and take the journey with her, getting moved ♥️

– Alberto – March 8, 2020

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“A book not to be missed”

The biography of Mother Teresa is portrayed with a modest style, delving into some lesser-known aspects of her wonderful existence.

I recommend it to everyone. – Graziafairy – September 24, 2016

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“Spiritual gem”

I thank the author Maria Amata Di Lorenzo for this spiritual gem. Written in pure simplicity, yet at the same time, it manages to touch on a spiritual aspect of Saint Mother Teresa that impresses a sense of God’s presence in each of our lives, in the vocation to which she personally called us.

Thank you!! – Fabrizio – June 22, 2020

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“I recommend it to everyone for the profound spiritual message”

The reading engaged me immediately. The story of the Saint unfolds like a river.

‘The dark night’ is a recurring theme in the lives of the Saints. I recommend it to everyone for the profound, timeless, and spaceless spiritual message that Mother has taught all of humanity.

– Giuliana – June 30, 2018

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“Excellent book, written with simplicity and love”

A beautiful book that is devoured with an interest that grows page after page. For me, a true discovery regarding Mother Teresa. A must-read. –

Alain – January 6, 2022

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“Writer of rare sensitivity”

Emotional.

– Sarina Macaluso – October 19, 2019

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“Absolutely recommended”

A very well-written book, it allows a deeper understanding of this great woman and her incredible life dedicated to the poorest of the poor.

Absolutely recommended. – Verified Amazon Customer – September 29, 2017

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“Wonderful”

A book that touched my heart, written from the heart. Wonderful.

– Faccioli R. – January 2, 2021

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“Emotional”

The first book I’ve read by this author. I believe I’ll read others for sure!

– Nadia Violetti – June 3, 2020

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From a passionate reader

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Dear Maria Amata,

I thank you very much for your book, “Teresa of Calcutta.” It’s a book that captures my heart and mind. Do you know that when I read it, especially when I read certain passages, it comes naturally for me to reread and reread what you write?

It’s a treasure of lived spirituality, and the mind and heart need to reread, and with each rereading, they feel that the meaning of your words becomes enriched with new details, new impressions, new senses, and ever higher meanings. I am very grateful to you because I too discover myself enriched “inside” by these meanings that I continuously discover… (Alberto Mancini)

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Sister of Our Fragility

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We all know the face of Mother Teresa of Calcutta: intense, focused, with a gaze that penetrates the soul and a lattice of wrinkles that tell of experience, effort, care, and dedication. Maria Amata Di Lorenzo’s book explains that face and that slight yet great body, as she perceived it, due to the spiritual charisma it radiated, a layperson like Pier Paolo Pasolini. As we read it, we traverse all the steps of an exceptional life, in many ways almost unbelievable.

The story begins in Skopje, where Agnes was born in 1910, into an affluent family of great devotion and generosity. It is here that we begin to understand the origin of faith so profound and lived, as her mother was extraordinarily sensitive to the needs of the last. Then comes “the first call” for Agnes, the irresistible vocation that compels her to leave her not-so-wealthy native country to seek out poverty to offer her hands and mercy.

And in India, after years of apostolate, teaching, and self-giving, comes the “second call,” one that leads her to move away from socially poor but not wretched environments, to be with the last among the last: the dying on the streets of Calcutta, so weak and abandoned on the sides of the roads that their feet are gnawed by rats, or the outcasts living in sewers, with no one to come to their aid due to the fatalism ingrained in Hindu thought.

Agnes, now Teresa, now a mother to all, understands that her place is there and that her mission, beyond aiding, comforting, and providing shelter, is to build dignified places where they can spend their final days and die peacefully, with smiles on the lips of her destitute.

Yet, of Teresa, beyond her heroic actions and restless, ceaseless activism, we also come to know, through this dense volume, her deep suffering, her experience of the dark night when, apart from faith, nothing sustains her spirit and the prevailing feeling is one of mortal anguish.

Inside of me, everything is icy. It is only blind faith that carries me because in truth everything is darkness for me, she confesses in a letter to Monsignor Périer in December 1955, and three years later, to the same recipient: The intense longing for God is terribly painful and yet the darkness is becoming greater and greater.

Perhaps, this endured feeling of desolation stemmed from Teresa’s full awareness of the abyss of evil, in all its forms, material and cultural, present on Earth, and from the perception of human inadequacy, even if just and holy, to dominate and overcome it.

This makes her even more of a sister and closer to our fragility.

Thanks, then, to Maria Amata Di Lorenzo for offering us with these pages a comprehensive portrait of Teresa: of her immense work, the heroic sacrifice of a personal life dedicated to others, her holiness, but also her inner experience, with the corollary of confusion that accompanied her, because precisely that feeling makes her feel beside us and a friend in our moments of crisis and dismay.

Maria Gisella Catuogno