Writing This God

Note that this is my part for the concrete example of Option for the Poor in the Catholic Social Teaching report for my Catholicism in the Modern World class in college. My attempt in writing God even though I'm finding my real idealism backing away from some former practices where I was molded until I grew older and faced the real reality. I felt odd reading this. I couldn't believe I could write something like this.



God's plans for the poor in the Creation is to show the people that we, as a society, charge an option for the poor and realize the importance of life in immaterial and material aspects. Christian beliefs are promoting the abandonment of the generalized spot of the poor to expose the order for equitable distribution of firms. In order to proclaim that our world has achieved proper justice, we are inclined to have a duty to consider the opinions and perception of the poor viewing it as our love to our people, to ourselves and to God Himself.

Relating the preference to the option for the poor to a concrete event in History provided social changes to the society. One event and person would be Mother Teresa and the things the Missionaries for Charity had done led by her.

"All the desolation of the poor, not only their material poverty but their spiritual wounds as well, need to be redeemed. We should share with them because only if we are united with them can we redeem them, bringing God to their lives and they, in turn, to God."

Mother Teresa, lived from 1910 to 1997, marked the hint for the people to be awakened and be unconscious of the things that are not 'substantial' and maintain the long process of having an option for the poor widespread enough for the spiritual leaders of the world followed to send an active spiritual guidance and social teaching. This enlightened us through the way of simplicity, poverty and adherence to the teaching of Christ.

She began serving the poor in 1946 with doing little things anyone can do for a start to a missionary life as one of a zeal with a translucent move forward and a powerful belief of faith in action that adds to the holiness and wholeness of the start of a mission to change the world and have a bigger view and performance in seeking option for the poor.

Like the simple path St. Francis of Assisi took as a life and being the head of the Missionaries of Charity founded in 1950, she voluntarily went to different poor places - such as Calcutta, Ethiopia, Rome and etc. - and hugged their perception and problems as she help them like nothing in general is wrong. She spent hours embracing the sick, the homeless, the disabled and the poor. Our lives were opened to the basic teaching of a spiritual life to be viewed upon the words of Gospel - the Christian way of prayer, love, forgiveness, proper judgment, humility, truth and total surrender to the World - to the poor, and to the people who are bound to be in service for help. Such social teaching was made big with Mother Teresa's everlasting clemency.

Mother Teresa, being one of the most powerful women of the world, was said to be one of the greatest prophets of the option for the poor in the Church and in the world, according to a senior Jesuit from Calcutta. It only means she gives equal attention to every individual she meets definitely calling to achieve nothing to make your life be lessened and incomplete. She created a compassionate legacy to open a second glance in improving the social teaching preferential option for the poor with selflessness, generosity, sensitivity, hope, comfort and peace without stressing change in society, but by doing it in action and showing experience.

Knowing Mother Teresa's name is enough to know what are the concrete events in History that boosted preferential option for the poor teaching. Her simple path of silence to prayer to faith to love to service and to peace made a big impact on the world. She didn't force people to create drastic change; instead, with her powerful human force reflected in God's providence, she was able to open a possibility for the poor to have proper judgment and justice. Mother Teresa was not poor, but she made herself poor by her own option by being a servant of the poor and of God that gives her common power enough to retaliate revolutions for the better. She was able to capture the hearts of many people that made her worthy to be beatified as a Saint six years after her death by just experiencing true freedom. She didn't work to remove poverty; she worked to remove the common bad by just showing compassion as a capital agenda.

"They are the ones who have nothing to prove or to protect - no posing, no posturing before people or before God. When all you've got is what you've got, all that's left is to be yourself and you can only receive. And that, in a sense, is why the poor are blessed, because they know what really matters." According to a volunteer priest who helped Mother Teresa in Calcutta. It only means to serve the poor will allow them to expose what is really essential and what it is really to explore than other material aspects basing it from their non-locality.

It is not to press that God doesn't want others to be happy by making poor people on purpose, but it is to impose and for people to realize on how to improve our judgments without it having corrupt conclusions. God is showing us on how to have an affirmative reaction towards the wrong standard produced by the society and its created values.