Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge

Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her Sisters of Charity

For me, Mother Teresa of Calcutta embodies Christian love in action. Her face shines with the love of Christ on which her whole life is centred, and her words carry that message to a world which never needed it so much.

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR GOD is about her and the religious order she has instituted. It is not, in the ordinary sense, a biography but arises largely out of a film we made in Calcutta on the same theme and with the same name.

The Fontana SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR GOD includes, along with other writings about and by her, the transcript of my conversations with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. My best hope for it is that it will live up to its name, drawing others to help Mother Teresa's work, thereby participating in the love that inspires it and the joy it brings. MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE