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Today, Father Brian is the director of the Mother Teresa Center and the editor of <em>A Call to Mercy<\/em>, a collection of testimonies of her impact. But in 1977, the man who led the charge of Mother Teresa\u2019s canonization was just a 21-year-old seminary school dropout who was looking for direction in life.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/a-faith-lesson-from-mother-teresa\/\">READ MORE: A FAITH LESSON FROM MOTHER TERESA<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>That June, Father Brian traveled with his family from Canada to Rome to meet Mother Teresa and she encouraged him to enter the brotherhood. \u201cI was so shocked I didn\u2019t say anything,\u201d Father Brian tells Guideposts.org of his reaction to Mother Teresa\u2019s encouragement. Then a young man, Father Brian had a steady girlfriend and was thinking of marriage\u2014something priests cannot do, with a few exceptions. But Mother Teresa\u2019s words stirred in him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next day in the morning, in the convent, I saw her and I went up to her and asked her what did she mean [that I should join the brotherhood] and she said she just wanted me to stay [in Rome] right then and there and not even go back to Canada, but I couldn\u2019t stay,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He went back to Canada and had a \u201cdifficult\u201d conversation with his girlfriend about the new call he felt over his life, thanks to Mother Teresa. Just a few short months later in September, he returned to Rome and has been living his vocation ever since. Father Brian shared with Guideposts why Mother Teresa still matters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GUIDEPOSTS: What do you think is maybe the most important thing that people should know about Mother Teresa and who she was and what she stood for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FATHER BRIAN KOLODIEJCHUK: <\/strong>I\u2019ll keep with this theme of kindness, of love for your neighbor. From the book, <em>A Call to Mercy <\/em>most of those stories [of what Mother Teresa did] are anecdotes. They\u2019re things that everyone could do. We could all do them. She would say, \u201cSmall things, great love. Ordinary things, extraordinary love.\u201d And she would say, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to go to Calcutta to find the poor\u2026 Calcutta is everywhere, even in your own family.\u201d She went out of India into the West. She discovered that \u2013 she would say, \u201cThe greatest poverty in the world today is to be unloved, unwanted, uncared for.\u201d And that you can be rich, you can be middle-class\u2013it doesn\u2019t matter exactly your material situation. So that if we pay attention, if we look if we\u2026we\u2019ll be able to discover right around us people who need that little gesture a smile even. A little gesture of kindness, a word of kindness, a small favor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GUIDEPOSTS: So knowing what you know about Mother Teresa and her life, why do you think she was able to have the kind of connection with God that she was able to display? How did she get to be this person that we all recognize?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FB: <\/strong>She said from childhood Jesus was her first love. She was a woman passionately in love with Jesus. Really she made a resolution as a young woman to love Jesus as He has never been loved before and to really take that seriously is quite a daring kind of desire and resolution. You can see that when she really defines everything according to or relating to Jesus. Suffering is related to Jesus kissing you. So another good example, she would say, \u201cWell you have this love for God inside but it needs some incense to make it burn. And that incense is the suffering.\u201d So on one hand the whole work of the mission is a journey to relieve suffering. The whole book <em>A Call to Mercy <\/em>is about that, on one hand. On the other hand, while we are suffering we can give it value, a spiritual value with eyes of faith. She would say, \u2018Give whatever He takes. Take whatever He gives,\u2019 with a smile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GUIDEPOSTS: Based on the title, would you consider your book a call to action for people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FB: <\/strong>Yeah, that\u2019s why you see at the end of each chapter there\u2019s some examples of how the reader could practice [the lesson]: Look at Mother Teresa, what\u2019s her example? And then see well how can I do that In my life, in my family, in my work, where I live? In the different groups or communities that I\u2019m involved in, how can I practice this mercy, this compassion, these ordinary things with great love. 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