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Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta Biography
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Place of Birth Skopje, North Macedonia
Place of Death Calcutta, India Feast Day September 5
Profession Catholic Nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity religious Congregation
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Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s name at birth was Anjezë (Agnes) Gonxhe Bojaxhiu. She was born on August 26 1910 in Skopje, North Macedonia and died on September 5 1997 at the age of 87 in Calcutta, India. She was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity congregation that manages homes for the poorest of the poor. She urges us to do small things with great love. We celebrate her feast day on September 5 every year in the Catholic Church.
Date of Birth August 26 1910
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Place of Work India Date of Death September 5 1997
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Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s father was called Nikollë Bojaxhiu and her mother was called Dranafile Bojaxhiu. Mother Teresa was the last born in this family. Her father was a businessman and a local politician in Albania. He died in 1919 when Mother Teresa was only eight years old.
Due to limited resources, she begged for food and basic supplies. She was initially caught up between returning to the comfort of the convent and suffering together with the poor people of God in the slums.
Mother Teresa was baptized in Skopje, Macedonia immediately after birth and as she would later say, this was her real birthday. She received her First Communion when she was 5 years old and was confirmed in November 1916.
While on a journey by train on September 10 1946, she received the ultimate call within her to serve the poor by staying with them. She was granted permission to leave the school in 1950 and founded the ‘Missionaries of Charity’.
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On May 24, 1931, Mother Teresa took her first religious vows and chose the name “Thérèse” of Lisieux. But because another nun in the convent already had that name she chose the name “Teresa” with the Spanish spelling.
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During her early life, she was excited and fascinated by the lives of missionaries who were in Bengal, and by the age of 12 years, she had resolved to live a religious life. When she was 18 years old, on August 15, 1928, while on pilgrimage praying at the shrine of the Black Madonna of Vitina Letnice, she felt within her this strong force to join religious life. That year she left home for Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto. From that time she never saw her family again.
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta Life History
Mother Teresa initially began working with the poor in 1948 with a simple, white cotton sari with a blue border after she replaced her Loreto habit. She gained Indian citizenship and received basic medical training at Holy Family Hospital. She thereafter plunged herself in serving the poor in the slums of Calcutta where she founded a school and began tending to the poor and hungry.After a while in 1949, a group of young women joined her and she began the process of founding her religious community of helping the “poorest among the poor”.
Mother Teresa, with help from Calcutta officials, opened a home providing care for the sick and those terminally ill in 1952. She rehabilitated an abandoned Hindu temple and turned it into the now Kalighat, the Home of the Pure
Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, also profess a fourth vow: to give “wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor”.
On May 14, 1937, Mother Teresa, took her solemn vows. She was still a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta. She taught in this school for around 20 years and at one time in 1944, she became the headmistress.Whilestill
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Finally, On October 7 1950, the Missionaries of Charity congregation received approval from the Vatican. Mother Teresa stated that the congregation would care for; the naked the lepers the hungry the homeless the crippled the blind all those people who feel uncared for throughout society, unloved unwanted people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone”
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After leaving Ireland, she went to Darjeeling, India in 1929 to start her novitiate. She learned Bengali and taught at the nearby St. Teresa’s School.
enjoying teaching at the school, she was constantly troubled by the surrounding poverty in Calcutta, the devastating famine in Bengal in 1943 and the violence brought about by the Muslim Hindu conflict.
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Heart. The poor received treatment and those on the verge of death were given an opportunity to die a dignified death.She did not discriminate against any faith, colour, or caste. During death, the Hindus were given water from the Ganges, Catholics received the Anointing of the sick and the Muslims were read the Quran.
She began to feel she was not good enough to continue being the head of the Missionaries of Charity and requested to resign but the sisters voted to retain her as their head and she had no other choice but to agree.
Things got complicated when she fell down in April 1996 and broke her collarbone. Four months later she suffered from malaria and heart failure. On March 13, 1997, Mother Teresa resigned from her position as head of the Missionaries of Charity and died on September 5, 1997.
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s Death
Mother Teresa conducted various humanitarian acts outside India like the evacuation of 37 children in Beirut in 1982, that were trapped in a hospital at the war zone between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas. She brokered a temporary ceasefire and together with the Red Cross rescued children.
A branch of the Missionaries of Charity congregation was opened for the brothers in 1963 and in 1976 the contemplative branch of the Sisters was founded. The Corpus Christi Movement for Priests and Missionaries of Charity Fathers were also founded in 1981 and 1984 respectively.
The journey of Mother Teresa’s declining health began in 1983 when she had a heart attack in Rome while visiting Pope John Paul II and in 1989, she had a second heart attack which made her receive an artificial pacemaker. She developed additional heart problems in 1991 when she contracted pneumonia in Mexico.
Mother Teresa opened another hospice and called it City of Peace (Shanti Nagar) to take care of those with leprosy. The Missionaries of Charity also established clinics throughout Calcutta to provide food, medication and dressings to those with leprosy. In 1955, she opened a Children’s Home of the Immaculate Heart called Nirmala Shishu Bhavan to take care of orphans and homeless youth.
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s Awards and Recognitions
Mother Teresa received a state funeral from the Indian Government in recognition of her service to the poor, downtrodden and the sick without discrimination. A controversial figure during her life and after her death, Mother Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work. She was praised and criticized for her opposition to abortion. Her authorized biography was written by Navin Chawla and published in 1992, and she has been the subject of films and other books.
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta has received many awards and recognitions from India and around the world. Some of the awards she received are:
By 1997, the members of the congregation founded by St Mother Teresa of Calcutta had grown to over 4,000 sisters and by 2007, the number had risen worldwide to about 5000 sisters and 450 brothers operating 600 institutions in 120 countries.
The Missionaries of Charity began to expand their operations and opened many more hospices, orphanages and leper houses in the rest of India, Asia, Europe, Africa and the United States.
A miracle that was attributed to the intercessions of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta involved the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman named Monica Besra. Besra said that as she was holding the picture of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a beam of light shone from the picture and cured her cancerous tumor. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 19, 2003, at Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City.
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Another miracle was attributed to the intercessions of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. It involved, in 2008, the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors. She was canonized by Pope Francis on September 4, 2016 at Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City
10. The Golden Honour of the Nation in 1994 by Albania
12. The Albert Schweitzer International Prize in 1975
15. The Nobel Peace Prize in 1979
1. The Padma Shri award in 1962 by the Indian government
8. The Order of Merit in 1983 (A Commonwealth order of merit)
7. Appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia in 1982.
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Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta Feast Day
We celebrate her feast day on September 5 every year in the Catholic Church.
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta is the Patron Saint of World Youth Day of Charity of Calcutta
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4. The Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding in 1962, given for work in South or East Asia.
13. The La Storta Medal for Human Service by University of Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1976
14. Honorary Doctor of Social Science degree by in 1987
3. The Bharat Ratna in 1980 by the Indian government.
5. The inaugural Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971.
2. The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1969 by the Indian government.
6. The Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award in 1976 by the Catholic Church.
9. Honorary citizenship of the United States on November 16 1996.
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Non-church-goers — hi.
How deciding to come back to church inside of the building on a Sunday at a specific time and in person, or not, feels a lot more complicated than you ever anticipated it would be almost two years ago. I know how some of our pandemic life felt like a reset a breath even and in that time you were able to look at the parts of your life and reevaluate anything that felt like a "had to." I get that when you really thought about it, church was one of those things. Maybe you weren't sure why you were going, or if it was something you even wanted to do in the first place, but week after week you found yourself getting to church on Sunday morning. And then you discovered that not going felt better than going on most Sundays. You discovered a love of easy Sundays without getting ready or leaving your house. You learned that a slow and steady walk in that wild area near your house felt more like church than trying to wrangle a kid or your own attention through a sermon. You found that what you gained somehow had more meaning than anything you lost. So you haven't come back. And there might not even be a "yet" on the end of that sentence. You haven't come back, and I know that you might not ever come back.
An Open Letter to those who have NOT yet come back to Church!
I know you're there. I know there are a lot of you. Or at least, there are a lot more of you than you've been made to believe. You haven't been back to church since, oh, March 2020. Maybe you have watched every online service or not a single one, or somewhere in between. No matter what, I want you to know I see you. I want you to know that I get how hard this stage of your faith life is.
If that's you, I hope you'll hear and trust my next words to you: Choosing to not attend in person church, or attend any church at all, doesn't mean you don't believe in God, or that your faith is somehow lacking. It's just not true, even if you've been told it is by someone else.
I know there are a lot of reasons you may have decided to stay away, and I hope you hear me when I say that each and every one of them is valid. I get that maybe you aren't sure what you believe anymore, but whatever it is certainly doesn't look like what it used to look like, and you know you won't find it going back to the way things were. I understand that you might not feel like it's safe to gather yet, for you
or for someone you love, and you don't trust that the people gathering will make decisions based on your safety.
I get that you don't want to come back yet and that it feels like the church is moving on without you, that you are being left behind and left out. Valid. All of this is valid. And I get it. I get all of it because I feel it too. I too, feel anxious about big groups of people. I feel unsure about what I believe anymore, or if I even believe at all. I don't know if I trust my neighbor to look out for me. I am so tired and want a break. I know, I know, pastors aren't supposed to feel this way. Or if we do we certainly aren't supposed to say it out loud. We're supposed to model faith without fear and confident leadership in the face of unprecedented challenges. But I can't. I feel all the things you are feeling too. And I want you to know that you are not alone. I want you to know you're not the only one feeling this way. And more than anything, I want you to know that I meant it when I told you that church was always more than a building. I meant it when I told you the church was the people, the relationships, the wondering together about God and faith and life. So too, I mean it when I say you don't have to come back to church if you don't want to. If you can't, won't, or aren't sure yet, it's ok. God has always and will continue to meet you where you are. We would love to see you at St Teresa of Calcutta... in fact, we need you....and we love you! Hope to see you soon! Fr Victor Ray
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