Mother Teresa’s Blessing
LMD
Mother Teresa, m.c.
Missionaries of charity
54A A. 3. C4 Bose Road
Calcutta 700016 11D1A
November 19, 1996
Dear Mrs. Nevins,
Thank you for the letter and book which you sent to me through Fr. McGuire. God love you for your tender concern to protect His children from all that could harm them, especially in the area of our purity. I pray that you and the group Veil of Innocence may be a real gift of God to all children and help them to grow in true love.
Enclosed you will find what I have written about the book Sex Education: The Basic Issues. If you feel that this will be of help in spreading the message of love and purity, you may use it in the book. Only I ask that no fund-raising whatever be done through the use of this letter or my name, even in the service of this worthy cause.
My prayer for you and all the members of Veil of Innocence is that you may always seek the truth in love, remembering that Jesus said, “Whatever you did to the least of my brothers. YOU DID IT TO ME.”
Keep the joy of loving Jesus in your hearts and spread this joy to all you meet.
Let us pray.
Jesus is Pleased to Come to Us!!
As the TRUTH to be Told!!
And the LIFE to be Lived!!
As the LIGHT to be Lit!
And the LOVE to be Loved!
As the JOY to be Given!!
And the PEACE to be Spread!
LETTER OF MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA TO VEIL OF INNOCENCE
+LDM
Missionaries of Charity
54A A.J.C. Bose Road
Calcutta 700016 INDIA
November 19, 1996
Dear Friends,
God has created each one of us for greater things to love and to be loved. The first and best place that each child learns about love is in the family from his own parents. Let us thank God for good and loving parents who take the responsibility to train their children to love God and one another, and who protect their children from all that would destroy their power of loving.
I have often said to gatherings of young people that the greatest gift of God that a young woman and a young man can give to each other on their wedding day is a virgin heart in a virgin body. And the young people are very happy to hear that because they know that they are made to love and be loved in this special way by only one person in marriage and that the fruit of their love is the gift of the child.
Let us hope and pray that this book “Sex Education: The Basic Issues” will help parents to protect their children from the evil that is around us, especially from, anything that would destroy the gift of pure and chaste love within them.
May we be humble and pure like Mary, so that we may be holy like Jesus.
Let us pray.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Son of God Our Father and
Mary Immaculate Ever Virgin,
Bless and Protect Our Children.
Foster In Them A Pure Love, and
Through Your Perfect Love,
Grant Them Thy Grace.
Amen.