1 BOOK$REVIEW$ MOTHER TERESA Come Be My Light Edited and with commentary by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C. Published by Doubleday 2007 404 pages
Reviewed and commented by Dr. Raymond Shekoury The book, which was published on August 29, 2007, contains primarily more than forty personal letters written by the Albanian-born Mother Teresa (1910-1997). Those letters revolve mainly around her personal crises of faith. The letters were addressed to her confessors, church superiors, and some theologians. She never intended to publish them. In fact, she always insisted on destroying them. However, the Catholic Church decided to publish them against her will. The letters were made public for the first time as a part of the investigation into her suitability for sainthood. Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, the Canadian priest who is the editor of this book under review, conducted the investigation and made several comments. He is the advocator of the cause of her beatification and canonization. In those exchanges of letters, Mother Teresa laments the “dryness,” “darkness,” “loneliness,” and “torture” that she was undergoing. She compares her experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the