The Prayer of Mother Teresa and Brother Roger

Dan Clendenin
Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read

Selected by Dan Clendenin

Prayer of Mother Teresa and Brother Roger

Oh God, the father of all,
you ask every one of us to spread
Love where the poor are humiliated,
Joy where the Church is brought low,
And reconciliation where people are divided. . .
Father against son, mother against daughter,
Husband against wife,
Believers against those who cannot believe,
Christians against their unloved fellow Christians.

A prayer jointly written by Mother Teresa and Brother Roger of Taize. From Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), pp. 152–153.

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