Today we celebrate the feast day of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a woman of great faith, prayer, and action. Although her work and ministry with the poor of India was known by many throughout the world for many years, Mother Teresa achieved great worldwide acclaim when she was named as the recipient of the Noble Peace Prize in 1979 "for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity,” which were the words used by the Nobel prize committee.
Born in 1910 in Macedonia of Albanian parents, she entered the Sisters of Loretto in 1928 at the age of 18. She served as a religious sister in a high school in India, teaching history and geography to daughters of wealthy families. However, she was affected by the poverty and suffering that she saw around her. In 1946, while riding on a train, she heard God call her to serve the poor in a special way, which led her to leaving the Sisters of Loretto and establishing the Missionaries of Charity. Until her death on September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa worked tirelessly on behalf of the poor in India and throughout the world through the work of the sisters in her religious congregation. She became an example of Christ’s love for the poor to both Christians and non-Christians alike. Mother Teresa has many wonderful quotes. Here are several of them:
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003 and canonized by Pope Francis in 2016. We unite our prayers with her prayers today.
Have a blessed week everyone. Father Lincoln.
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