Put into its actual context, her understanding was based in how St. Paul and all the early Christians and martyrs down throughout history (i.e. 'a great cloud of witnesses'), viewed the nobility of offering their own sufferings to God out of love, 'as imitators of Christ'.
And for balance, bear in mind that at the very same time - they were also going around profusely healing and delivering and raising from the dead.
It seems more likely (other than 'meanness') that Mother Teresa felt she was offering the poorest of the poor the absolute dignity of sharing in Christ's passion, (in cases where they also didn't exactly have access to all the wonderful 21st century Korporate Medi$ine we fortunately do...)
“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church ... to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now made manifest to his saints.” (Colossians 1:24-26)
People may not all share the same spiritual beliefs, but that doesn't mean to impute evil to others perspectives either. Understanding is a gift of the Holy Spirit:
St. Paul captured well this gift of wisdom: “What we utter is God’s wisdom: a mysterious, a hidden wisdom. God planned it before all ages for our glory. …Yet God has revealed this wisdom to us through the Spirit. …
The Spirit we have received is not the world’s spirit but God’s Spirit, helping us to recognize the gifts He has given us. We speak of these, not in words of human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, thus interpreting spiritual things in spiritual terms.
The natural man does not accept what is taught by the spirit of God. For him, that is absurdity. He cannot come to know such teaching because it must be appraised in a spiritual way. The spiritual man, on the other hand, can appraise everything. We have the mind of Christ” (I Cor 2:6ff).
Put into its actual context, her understanding was based in how St. Paul and all the early Christians and martyrs down throughout history (i.e. 'a great cloud of witnesses'), viewed the nobility of offering their own sufferings to God out of love, 'as imitators of Christ'.
And for balance, bear in mind that at the very same time - they were also going around profusely healing and delivering and raising from the dead.
It seems more likely (other than 'meanness') that Mother Teresa felt she was offering the poorest of the poor the absolute dignity of sharing in Christ's passion, (in cases where they also didn't exactly have access to all the wonderful 21st century Korporate Medi$ine we fortunately do...)
https://catholicstand.com/complete-suffering-of-christ
People may not all share the same spiritual beliefs, but that doesn't mean to impute evil to others perspectives either. Understanding is a gift of the Holy Spirit:
https://catholicstraightanswers.com/gifts-understanding-wisdom
St. Paul captured well this gift of wisdom: “What we utter is God’s wisdom: a mysterious, a hidden wisdom. God planned it before all ages for our glory. …Yet God has revealed this wisdom to us through the Spirit. …
The Spirit we have received is not the world’s spirit but God’s Spirit, helping us to recognize the gifts He has given us. We speak of these, not in words of human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, thus interpreting spiritual things in spiritual terms.
The natural man does not accept what is taught by the spirit of God. For him, that is absurdity. He cannot come to know such teaching because it must be appraised in a spiritual way. The spiritual man, on the other hand, can appraise everything. We have the mind of Christ” (I Cor 2:6ff).