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Showing Christ to Others 11-23-2008 |
Malcolm Muggeridge wrote of the time he escorted Mother Teresa into a New York television studio for an interview on a network morning show. “A program,” he wrote, “which helps Americans from coast to coast to munch their breakfast cereal and gulp down their coffee.” He went on to say her interviewer was a man “with a drooping green mustache, a purple nose and scarlet hair.”
It was the first time Mother Teresa had been in an American television studio, and she was quite unprepared for the constant commercial interruptions. As it happened (surely as a result of divine intervention), all the commercials that particular morning were for different varieties of packaged food, obviously non-fattening and non-nourishing.
Mother Teresa looked at them with a kind of wonder, her own constant preoccupation being, of course, to find the wherewithal to nourish the starving and put some flesh on human skeletons. It took little time for the irony of the situation to strike her. When it did, she remarked in a perfectly clear voice: “I see Christ is needed in television studios.”
A total silence descended on all present.
As we look at our own lives, in our homes, in our places of employment, even within the minivan, do we find Christ? More often than not, we tend to hold Christ back and let the secular stuff of life overshadow our call to discipleship. Blessed Mother Theresa said, “We can do no great things- only small things with great love.” Think for a moment about the impact that five-foot tall Albanian nun had on our world with that simple philosophy. Think of the impact each of us has when we show Christ to others. We can do great things.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Love, Fr. Bill
For Halloween this year, Nathan Demski dressed up as me, complete with a name tag which said, “Fr. Bill.” The perfect touch though was the hair spray painted black with a generous touch of gray paint in his hair!
Fr. Dominic’s only remark, “When is Fr. Junior going to start saying Mass?”
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