Mother Teresa, The Glorious Years. Chapter IX

Book title: Mother Teresa, The Glorious Years
Author: Edward Le Joly, S.J., 1989
Edition: 3rd print, 1998
Publisher: St. Paul's

"The Pope's Ambassadress-at-large"

As a woman in love with Jesush, she was deeply united to the Church, thus to the Pope. But for John Paul II, Mother became a trusted collaborator.

He used her (asked for her help, usually her presence and words):

for his campaigns, for peace, for prayer, for respect of the holiness of family, for the right of unborn child to life, for the union of all Christians, etc.

There was a great friendship between the two of them, due to their very close friendship with Jesus Christ. He called her to support his campaign to rekindle the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to Synod of bishops, to the Marian Year procession in Rome with him (first he had asked her to go be in Poland).

At Paray-le-Morial, where the devotion to the Sacred Heart started she told th pilgrims without mincing her words:

Let your purity be purse, lt your chastity be chaste, let your virginity be virgin, do nothing to sully your soul and your bodies that belong to the Lord. And when you marry, if you do, there is no more beautiful gift you can bring to your spouses than a body and mind that have remained pure and chaste.

Le Joly says:

She knows that the young like straight talk better than anything else.