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Mother Teresa's 40 Year Crisis Of Faith Revealed

First Posted: 3/28/08 Updated: 5/25/11

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"Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear. The tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak," the Telegraph quotes her, as writing in the letter.

In another letter she writes: "The smile is a mask or a cloak that covers everything. I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God, a tender personal love. If you were there you would have said, 'What hypocrisy'."

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