what you do to the least of my brethren

To The To the lowest degree of These My Brethren

While in my heart Celebrating the Canonization and Sainthood of Female parent Teresa, now Saint Teresa by Pope Francis, I was listening to a video near her life where she held up the hand of her invitee and counted off the v words "Yous did it (un)to me."

I was touched that every bit we look at her life, her strength and her service, she was motivated and driven that every deed of kindness, every service she performed in the "black pigsty of Calcutta" where she worked to aid the poorest of the poor; those whose lives were discarded was an act of Love that she performed to the least of these "my brethren" because she saw in them the Divine Light.

I had never heard that story before.

I had written the article below recently about living a life in service to others past seeing in them, "inasmuch as ye take done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye accept done it unto me," equally instructed past Jesus (in the King James Bible version.)

Realizing that Saint Teresa of Calcutta, known for almost of my life as Mother Teresa lived past those five words (You, Did, It, To, Me equally a way to explicate the five gospels) demonstrates how powerful those five words can exist.

The story I share here, about my grandmother volition hopefully demonstrate alone with Saint Teresa's canonization that this instruction by Jesus was not an impossible chore, but rather a way we can each make up one's mind to walk the world in Love, service, and fellowship with one another.

Here is a shorter video I constitute with Female parent Teresa explaining the
5 Finger Prayer:

Let her Love and her service inspire people around the world to realize that what she did in her life each and every one of us can do.

Although nosotros may never be declared a Saint nosotros can follow the teachings of these five words of Jesus and the marvelous example of the life and work of Saint Teresa. Nosotros can live a meaningful life, a blessed life and be a blessing to those nosotros meet on our journeying through life.

Some of us may feel the tasks ahead are across united states.  Indeed, nosotros are told that Mother Teresa felt the vast poverty she was sent past her convent to minister to was beyond her, merely in her daily walk with Christ equally a demonstration of Dearest, she became a beacon of Low-cal for the entire world.

Parables have been a method of spiritual teachers throughout the ages. Much like the tradition of a Zen Koan, a parable is a story for you to consider and ponder the deeper truth and lesson being offered. The lesson of a parable must be pondered in your eye every bit information technology is considered in your mind.Ponder on this.

The guidance of a parable is revealed through your inner wisdom through a sense of knowing and what has the resonance of a band of truth to it. Often, it is the very pondering of what the teacher meant that gives the greatest spiritual insight.

The Bible phrase above found in Matthew 25:40 is a parable.  In the elementary phrase "Aye though you have washed it for the least of these my brethren" is a profound life guidance argument that is frequently ignored by those who say they follow Jesus.  This little line in this simple parable ignites many questions that are worthy of pondering and because.

In my life, I was blessed by a wonderful grandmother who had given this passage plenty gravitas and consideration that information technology guided her whole life.  I cannot remember and count all of the unwed mothers who migrated through my grandmother'south home over the years. The young women who were often disowned or bandage out by their families found a haven in my grandmother's domicile.

One by one she saw the woman through their pregnancy and birth then helped them find honorable and respectable men who would ally them and become a father to their kid.  As a kid observing this, I do non know the details of how she managed to accomplish this job.

Mostly, I recollect the ofttimes bittersweet joy of the immature woman moving on to a better life that was mixed with my grandmother missing the baby who had been born into this state of affairs.

Likewise, my grandmother had a neighbor who had transferred the deed to her home to her son and so that when she passed on he would not have to pay inheritance tax.  He and then immediately sold the house out from under her, thus rendering the woman homeless.  The effect was my grandmother took her in.  They were not friends, merely neighbors.  In fact, they never even addressed ane some other past their kickoff names.  I only knew this resident in my grandmother's home equally Mrs. Malloy.

My grandmother housed and cared for Mrs. Malloy for many years until caring for her became beyond my grandmother'south health abilities.  She so found a habitation that could provide the intendance, Mrs. Malloy, now needed.  She then visited her weekly until Mrs. Malloy passed.

When as a child I would question the reasoning behind my Grandmother'south generosity she explained it through this biblical passage.  In her mind and centre, each of these people who had found themselves in unfortunate circumstances was cared for as if they were Jesus knocking on the door of her heart.  She welcomed them and treated them as if they were Him.

This boggling example of living that biblical passage has had a profound influence in my life and is one which I have pondered throughout my life.  What I have come to understand and realize is that this is a complex lesson.  The answers are not simple.

A whole myriad of factors must be considered that are related to issues of personal responsibility.  There are life lessons to be learned from every situation that is not yours or mine to disrupt through clemency.

I of the clearest of these lessons is the concept of seeing the Divine spark within each person that led Jesus to say in this parable "I was ill, and you cared for me; I was in prison house, and you visited me; I was hungry, and you lot fed me."We find this Divine spark inside those who are even the "least of these my brethren."

It is in serving and caring for others with Honey, while all the same empowering them to co-create in their own life the fulfillment of their dreams and desires, which you can best be of service.

The respect and honor you give to even the least of these the brethren of the Christ, and the to the lowest degree of these your brethren a demonstration of how alliance works. It is through the brotherhood of men and sisterhood among woman that you best acknowledge the Divine spark that is within each of u.s.. This acknowledgment is captured in the phrase of the aboriginal greeting of "Namaste – The Divine spark in me honors and recognizes the Divine spark in you."

In this style we are all brothers and sisters, we are all the children of God. We are One Humanity.

None of u.s.a. is an island, our separateness and separation are an illusion. Nosotros cannot hurt ane some other without hurting ourselves. As well, when we help and serve some other, we assistance ourselves. This connection is real no affair how much we may strive to think in selfish and separate ways.

Deep in your centre and more importantly deep in your Soul this truth is known. No thing how individual life may seem, there is a unity of connectedness we all take with ane another.

The biblical phrase that guided so much of my Grandmother's life and service was "Yep though you have done it unto the least of these my brethren you take done it unto me."  For my grandmother, every unwed mother who traveled through her care and her homeless neighbor were all part of her expression of love and service to the Christ.

This living example of the agile principle of love had a profound influence on my life that guides my life situations today.  I am so grateful that this loving woman was in my life.  Her example and honey take been a abiding source of strength in my life journey.

I am eternally grateful for the blessing of her presence in my life and her tireless example of what love and service mean.

Although I have known many wonderful spiritual teachers throughout my life, my grandmother living her life past that simple phrase from the volume of Matthew 25:xl was more of an example of following the teachings of Jesus than the many sermons I have heard in my life.

She truly "walked her talk," and I was so blessed past the opportunity to observe someone who "walked their talk" in my determinative years. Her living expression of Dear and Grace has been ongoing back up (even though her body has passed on) and I am grateful for the blessing of her example and her dear in my life.

In all of her expressions of Love and Service, to the various unwed mothers who cycled through her abode, I recall a complete lack of judgment toward the adult female she brought under her protection.  She opened her centre and her home to assist them get their life dorsum on track, so a mistake was non the definition of their time to come.

Her demonstration of grace and her instance of forgiveness and especially cocky-forgiveness have been an example of what forgiveness ways and the unconditional nature of honey.

For my Grandmother, it was Christ that she served and Christ who knocked on the door to her eye and Christ she housed and cared for when she gave comfort and shelter to those in need.  I can simply curiosity at what a beautiful demonstration of love her life was for with gratitude in my heart for having been blessed by the beloved and support of such an astonishing disciple of Christ.

I am blessed to share her story with y'all with love and invite you to open up your center and Do It Unto Me.

Namaste,

Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That Y'all Do!

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