Jesus has a very special love for you. [But] as for me - The silence and the emptiness is so great - that I look and do not see, - Listen and do not hear. - Mother Teresa to the Rev. Michael Van Der Peet, September 1979 On Dec. 11, 1979, Mother Teresa, the ‘Saint of the Gutters,’ went to Oslo. Dressed in her signature blue-bordered sari and shod in sandals despite below-zero temperatures, the former Agnes Bojaxhiu received that ultimate worldly accolade, the Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance lecture, Teresa, whose Missionaries of Charity had grown from a one-woman folly in Calcutta in 1948 into a global beacon of self-abnegating care, delivered the kind of message the world had come to expect from her. ‘It is not enough for us to say, ‘I love God, but I do not love my neighbor,” she said, since in dying on the Cross, God had ‘[made] himself the hungry one - the naked one - the homeless one.’ Jesus’ hunger, she said, is what ‘you and I must find’ and alleviate. She condemned abortion and bemoaned youthful drug addiction in the West. Finally, she suggested […]