{"id":33948,"date":"2016-09-06T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33948"},"modified":"2016-09-06T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:08:21","slug":"st-teresa-thirsting-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/st-teresa-thirsting-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"St Teresa &#8211;thirsting for God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mother-Teresa-Dorothy-Day-New-York-1979-Photo-by-Bill-Barrett.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33949 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mother-Teresa-Dorothy-Day-New-York-1979-Photo-by-Bill-Barrett-300x232.jpeg\" alt=\"Mother Teresa &amp; Dorothy Day, New York 1979 (Photo by Bill Barrett)\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mother-Teresa-Dorothy-Day-New-York-1979-Photo-by-Bill-Barrett-300x232.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mother-Teresa-Dorothy-Day-New-York-1979-Photo-by-Bill-Barrett-768x594.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mother-Teresa-Dorothy-Day-New-York-1979-Photo-by-Bill-Barrett.jpeg 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I saw this picture of Servant of God Dorothy Day and Saint Teresa and wondered what they talked about. Did they pray? I wondered what the visit meant to each of them, and what was the lasting impact the meeting had for them and their co-workers. Saints meet saints and encourage others to be saints.<\/p>\n<p>The other day Cardinal Pietro Parolin concluded a homily by remembering the two simple words of the newly canonized Saint Teresa of Calcutta\u00a0posted in every house of the Missionaries of Charity: \u2018I thirst\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I thirst,\u2019 the cardinal said, \u2018a thirst for fresh, clean water, a thirst for souls to console and to redeem from their ugliness to make them beautiful and pleasing in the eyes of God, a thirst for God, for His vital and luminous presence. I thirst; this is the thirst which burned in Mother Teresa: her cross and exaltation, her torment and her glory.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Both Dorothy Day and Saint Teresa give witness to thirsting for God.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this picture of Servant of God Dorothy Day and Saint Teresa and wondered what they talked about. Did they pray? I wondered what the visit meant to each of them, and what was the lasting impact the meeting had for them and their co-workers. Saints meet saints and encourage others to be saints. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/st-teresa-thirsting-for-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Teresa &#8211;thirsting for God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2223,32199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33950,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33948\/revisions\/33950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}