Book Review: Mother Teresa's Secret Fire
Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter that Changed Her Life, and How it Can Transform Your Own by Joseph Langford Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor, 2008 In Mother Teresa’s Secret Fire , Fr. Joseph Langford, author and co-founder of the priests of Mother Teresa’s order and personal confidant, reveals to us the secret life of Mother Teresa – the hidden inner fire that motivated her to persevere, even in the most squalid conditions -- to become the great saint that she is. Langford’s book is divided into three separate sections. In the first section, “Fire in the Night”, he shares the call within a call – the “divine mandate” that she received from God to be His light in the darkest of all places – to pitch her tent in the blackest of places that she might shine His radiance. He reveals the secret of why God chose Mother Teresa for this work and the inner fire that changed her life. In the second section, Illumination, he introduces the festival of light that emerges fro...