True to Vision

These benches are where Mother Teresa prayed when visiting her convent in New York City.

       Their standards of austerity haven’t changed.
       I visited of convent of the Missionaries of Charity. It’s located in New York City. A nun showed me around. She requested that no photos be taken of them.
      I sought one exception. Would she permit me to photograph a nun’s feet next to a bucket? Each sister possesses one for washing clothes. No washing machines are used.
     She acquiesced to my request.
     Their religious order is flourishing. Convents are located worldwide.
     All to often, success breeds complacency. Standards drop. Creeping lethargy takes root. Organizations fall into decline.
     Not this one. These nuns live simple lives of poverty as exemplified by their founder, Mother Teresa.
     She once said, “If luxury creeps in, we lose the spirit of the order. To be able to love the poor and know the poor we must be poor ourselves.”