{"id":86,"date":"2007-10-04T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T05:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/08\/25\/letters-reveal-mother-teresas-despair\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T21:53:09","slug":"letters-reveal-mother-teresas-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2007\/10\/04\/letters-reveal-mother-teresas-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters reveal Mother Teresa&#8217;s despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" width=\"184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/content\/chronicle\/special\/teresa\/teresalede.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Mother Teresa\" height=\"244\" style=\"width: 184px; height: 244px\" title=\"Mother Teresa\" \/>A book of letters written by Mother Teresa of Calcutta reveals for the first time that she was deeply tormented about her faith and suffered periods of doubt about God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear,&#8221; she wrote to the Reverend Michael van der Peet in September 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The ethnic Albanian Roman Catholic nun, who dedicated her life to poor, sick and dying in India, died in 1997 aged 87.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa had wanted all her letters destroyed, but the Vatican ordered they be preserved as potential relics of a saint, a spokeswoman for the book&#8217;s publishers Doubleday said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/08\/25\/2015008.htm\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book of letters written by Mother Teresa of Calcutta reveals for the first time that she was deeply tormented about her faith and suffered periods of doubt about God. &#8220;Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}