From the dark night of the mystics such as Mother Teresa, we can learn “how to behave in the time of dryness,” a preacher said at a mediation in the presence of the Pope.

From the dark night of the mystics such as Mother Teresa, we can learn “how to behave in the time of dryness,” a preacher said at a mediation in the presence of the Pope. Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the Papal Household preacher, delivered that message Friday when he gave his second meditation for Advent 2003, on Christian holiness in the light of the experience of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.