Heavenly Light

The television company was doing a production with Mother Teresa of Calcutta. On the day that the film crew arrived they were shown into the home where the sick people were resting. “This is where we will be filming” Mother Teresa told the crew. The film crew told Mother that there was no way that they could film in such a dark room, that there would not be enough light to get any picture. “Film it,” said Mother, “It won’t work,” said the camera man, and the lighting engineer agreed with him. Mother simply said, “go ahead”.
The camera man protested once more “But it just won’t work!” “Film it” said Mother. The camera crew could not argue with Mother any more and the days filming went ahead. After the filming when the crew were back in their studio, they played back what they had recorded that day to find a perfect picture and one that was bathed in a soft heavenly light.

A Consecrated Thing

The German sculptor Dannaker worked for two years on a statue of Christ until it looked perfect to him. He called a little girl into his studio, and pointing to the statue, asked her “Who is that?” The little girl promptly replied, “A great man.”
Dannaker was disheartened. He took his chisel and began anew. For six long years he toiled. Again, he invited a little girl into his work-shop, stood her before the figure, and said, “Who is that?” She looked up at it for a moment, and then tears welled in her eyes and she folded her hands across her chest and said, “Suffer the little children to come unto me” (Mark 10:14). This time Dannaker knew he had succeeded.
The sculptor later confessed that during those six years, Christ had revealed Himself to him in a vision, and he had only transferred to the marble what he has see with his inner eyes.
Later, when Napoleon Bonaparte asked him to make a statue of Venus for the Louvre, Dannaker refused. “A man,” he said, “who had seen Christ can never employ his gifts in carving a pagan goddess. My art is henceforth a consecrated thing.”