If I ever become a SaintI will surely be one of darkness. I will continually be absent from Heavento light the light of those in darkness on earth.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresas interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time. A moving chronicle of her spiritual journeyincluding moments, indeed years, of utter desolationthese letters reveal the secrets she shared only with her closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul.

416 pages. Paperback.