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Abstract

The article shows the crucial foundations of Mother Teresa of Calcutta holiness and the outline of her way to the holiness which was the way towards God’s love. It contains 4 elements: the meeting God, work for the others, love the Creator and serving Him in the other person, which arises from love God Himself showed in the person of Jesus. Mother Teresa realized her mystical life by serving the poorest. Her spirituality makes achieving of mystical holiness not as heroic actions but as total devotion to God’s love, so becoming merciful as He is. The descriptions of the nights of darkness are the evidences about Mother Teresa’s mystical unity with God. This state of purifying makes her thirstier for God and forces her to service the poor. It is the purified love in the night of darkness which leads her to total devotion to God’s will. The poor is somebody who shows the disinterestedness of God’s love in radical way. That is why Holy Teresa distinguished material poverty from the spiritual one. But she paid more attention to the second one, which is visible in special way in eastern countries. Mother Teresa thinks that the more revolting work for the poor is, the deeper must be the faith of person and in the same way the offering to the poor one. Doing this work because of love to Jesus, Christian reaches the “key” to the holiness.