Bl. Mother Teresa: Aug. 26, 1910-Sept. 5, 1997

"We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, "I belong to you. You can do whatever you like." And this is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord."

~Bl. Teresa of Calcutta

On this day in 1997, our Lord called His dedicated servant, Mother Teresa of Calcutta home to the place He had prepared for her. What has always struck me most about this woman was that she was able to see Christ in the most abject of circumstances; in her words she saw Him in the disguise of the sufferings of the poorest of the poor. After reading a bit more about Mother, I soon learned her "secret" to being able to do this. Every day for several hours a day, Mother Teresa and her sisters spent time praying before the Blessed Sacrament.
So today as we remember Blessed Mother Teresa, let us ask her intercession for the grace to see Christ in the poor he puts in the paths of our own lives. We may not be working with lepers and orphans, but the poor come in varied ways~ the homeless person you pass on the street, someone suffering from an addiction, or the person who seems to have lost their faith. Christ is in every one of them, but He is not always easy to recognize.
You can read a beautiful biography of Mother Teresa at the Vatican website.