In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast telling real saint stories in plain, everyday language, we tell the true story of St. Teresa of Calcutta — known to most of the world as Mother Teresa. For nearly fifty years, while she was founding hospices, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and becoming the most recognizable image of Christian charity on the planet, she was privately writing to her spiritual directors that she couldn't feel God's presence at all. These letters were only made public after her death, against her own wishes, and they reveal one of the most honest and least understood pictures of what real faith actually costs. St. Teresa of Calcutta is the patron saint of World Youth Day and of missionaries, and her feast day is September 5th.