Malcolm Muggeridge noticed that Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charities, her order of religious sisters in India, had joy. “Spending a few days with you, I have been immensely struck by the joyfulness of these sisters who do what an outsider might think to be almost impossibly difficult and painful tasks,” the British atheist journalist said to her in 1968 as he was working on a documentary and a book, both titled “Something Beautiful for God.” That BBC interview introduced her to the world. Before that, she was simply a woman loving.
“That’s the spirit of our society, that total surrender, loving trust and cheerfulness,” she explained.
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