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Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Strange that anyone should think it odd that Mother Teresa experienced spiritual dryness, or call her a "hypocrite" because she went on smiling while struggling with temptations against faith. Not only great saints but pretty well all believers must expect to experience something of the same. Scant comfort when one is going through it, of course; but the purification wouldn't be real if one didn't find it devastating. As St Teresa of Avila said, it is no wonder God has so few friends when he treats them so badly. Or perhaps, not badly, just bafflingly.