Mother Theresa

Mother Theresa Mother Teresa (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. By the 1970s she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and d IIndia's di ' hi highest h civilian i ili h honour, the h Bh Bharat R Ratna, iin 1980 ffor h her h humanitarian i i work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counselling programs, orphanages, and schools. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Bl Blessed d Teresa T off Calcutta. C l tt S Source : Wiki Presentation put together by Kartikeya Srinivasan [email protected] All photos sourced from the web.

" If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive."

Mother Theresa Taken From a Prayer Written by St. Francis of A i i Assisi

Blessed Mother Teresa expressed the option for the poor well when she said, "Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Clear."

Werner Horvath: "Belief and Beauty

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Swami Shantananda and Mother Teresa Pamela Duffy

Tribute to Mother Theresa is found at the Plaza de San Francisco, Cuba

THEY HAVE THEIR DIGNITY T d the Today th poor off the th world ld are llooking ki up att you. Do you look back at them with compassion? Do you have compassion for the people who are hungry? Theyy are hungry g y not onlyy for bread and for rice,, theyy are hungry g y to be recognised g as human beings. g They are hungry for you to know that they have their dignity, that they want to be treated as you are treated. They are hungry for love.

Ritu Singh of Calcutta, India

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Mother M th T Teresa stood t d on a box b so she could see over the podium when she addressed a group g p of congressmen g and spectators in Washington, D.C. in the late 1980's

Mother Teresa Teresa's s Home for the Dying in Calcutta

Mother Theresa visits South Carolina

It was on a train in 1946 to India's mountains, where she hoped the fresh air would cure her suspected t d ttuberculosis, b l i th thatt M Mother th T Teresa suddenly experienced an overwhelming inspiration to change her life's work. Her new mission would be ``to serve the p poorest of the poor,'' she later recalled. For the next halfcentury, until her death Friday at 87, the saintly nun aided the world's outcasts and unfortunates once saying she would forsake unfortunates, the gates of Heaven to work in hells on earth.

She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, the capital of modern-day Macedonia, the youngest of three children of an Albanian builder. By 19, she had joined the Loretto order of nuns, took the name Sister Teresa in honor of Saint Teresa of Lisieux, the patroness t off missionaries, i i i and db began tteaching hi children hild iin C Calcutta, l tt India. Ensconced there in her private Catholic high school, Teresa couldn't look away from the destitution and disease surrounding her

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Mother Theresa, 2004, white Carrara marble Christian Lemmerz

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Mother Teresa receives the Nobel Prize from John Sanness, Chairman of Norway's Nobel Committee in Oslo in this 1979 file photo.

Mother Teresa is seen in this August 1993 file photo

Mother Teresa Teresa, left left, walks with Diana, Princess of Wales, after receiving a visit from her June 18, 1997, in New York

The condition of 85-year-old Nobel laureate Mother Teresa, shown in London in this July 1993 photo, worsened in Calcutta Friday, Aug. 23, 1996, as doctors reversed a decision to remove her respirator a day after her heart stopped beating for nearly a minute during a fever. Doctors revived her with electric shocks.

Mother M th Teresa T lies li beside b id her successor as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, Sister Nirmala, wearing g spectacles p second from right, and other Catholic nuns in Calcutta early morning Saturday, September 6, 1997. Mother Teresa gestures after receiving a special Award for Excellence from the IndoAmerican Society at the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta Sunday, March 16, 1997.

Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien's wife, Aline Chretien, touches Mother Teresa's casket during her funeral mass in the Netaji Indoor Stadium in Calcutta, Saturday Sept. Saturday, Sept 13, 13 1997. 1997 Mother Teresa was later taken to Mother House for burial. India's Sonia Gandhi pays her respects to Mother Teresa while India India's s President K. R. Narayanan watches from behind after the funeral service in Netaji Indoor Stadium, Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997

Sisters of the Missionaries of Ch it pray during Charity d i the th funeral mass for Mother Teresa, the founder of their order, in the Netagi Indoor Stadium in Calcutta, Saturday, y Sept. 13, 1997. Mother Teresa died on Sept. 5. India's President K. R. Narayanan touches Mother Teresa Teresa's s hands after her funeral service in Netaji Indoor Stadium, Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997.

Mourners lean over fences to catch a glimpse off Mother M th Teresa T as her h coffin ffi is i carried i d by b Indian military officers from Saint Thomas' Church to a gun carriage in Calcutta, Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997. The gun carriage took her remains to the Netaji j Indoor Stadium for a funeral mass.

The body of Mother Teresa lies in its coffin as it begins its final journey during the funeral procession in Calcutta Saturday Satu day Sept. Sept 13, 3, 1997, 99 , in this t s image age taken from television.

Mother Teresa in her open casket is carried by Indian military officers from Saint Thomas' Church to a gun carriage in Calcutta, Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997. The gun carriage took her remains to the Netaji Indoor Stadium for a funeral mass.

Mourners line the streets as Mother Teresa's open casket is transported by Indian military gun carriage in Calcutta, Saturday, Satu day, Sept Sept. 13, 3, 1997. 99 The e gu gun ca carriage age took her remains to the Netaji Indoor Stadium for a funeral mass and will later proceed to Mother House for burial.

Love I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love love. Mother Theresa