By Andrew J. Rook
Titled: Mother Theresa
By Sam Welldone
December 10, 2015
Mother Teresa was b. 26
Aug 1910 d. 5 Sep 1997 Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Albanian)
know as also known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. She was the youngest of the children of Nikollë and
Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai). Her father who was involved in
Albanian politics died when she was eight years old. Growing up she was fascinated by stories of
missionaries and their services in Bengal, India. By age 12 she became convinced that she
should commit herself to a religious life.
Her final decision came on August 15, 1928 while praying in a sanctuary
in Vitima-letince where she often thought about going pilgrimage and she
decided at the age of 18 to leave that day on her journey as a missionary. Mother Teresa
never again saw her mother or her sister. Her family continued to live in Skopje until
1934, when they moved to Tirana in Albania. She took her first religious
vows as a nun on 24 May 1931. At that time she chose to be named
after Thérèse de Lisieux, the patron saint of
missionaries but because one nun in the convent had already chosen that name,
Agnes opted for the Spanish spelling of Teresa
After years of working with the sisters of Loreto
she ask permission from the Vatican on October 7, 1950 to start the diocesan
congregation that would become missionary of Charities. The mission was to care for in her own words “The
Hungry, the naked, homeless, the Cripple, the blind, lepers,’ All those who felt
unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a
burden to society and are shunned by everyone.”1
Years later for her work,
she would win the Nobel Prize in 1979 even before receiving the money mother
Theresa and her lepers already planned how to spend the money $190,000 would be
spent however, to her amazement she received another award called the people’s
prize money raised for the winner by private citizens of Norway; that year the
amount was nearly the same as the Nobel peace prize money. To Celebrate Pope John Paul II, called a
private celebration in his private chapel quarters for Mother Theresa after she
had cancelled a banquet in her honor for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Insisting that the money be spent on Mana
poor upon talking to a friend at the private celebration she said of Pope Paul
II “He is a small simple man, easy to impress,’
‘kissed me here on my forehead.”2
In 1982 during the Civil
war in Lebanon she visited a house in Beirut which was tore apart by the war
two factions bitterly fought each other across nomads land called The Green
Line: Mother Theresa House was in East Beirut she soon learned that
thirty-seven Muslim Children were stranded in an asylum on the other side of
the Green Line in West Beirut. They included mental retarded, the crippled and
the paralyzed. The poor innocence were
helpless and they would soon starved.
Despite a protest that snippers where everywhere; Mother Theresa acquired
volunteers to drive vans across the Green Line to the asylum and back to their
home. One Red Cross worker said, “We did
not expect a Saint to be so efficient.”3
There were many other
things Mother Teresa did, how she spread the love of Jesus Christ, well under persecution,
helping children in worn torn Lebanon for the reason of her willingness to
present her body a living sacrifice as told in Romans Chapter 12. The Hungry, The Naked, Homeless, The
Crippled, The Blind, The Lepers, and all those who felt unwanted, unloved,
uncared for, through out over 120 countries; received the love, and knowledge
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Mother Teresa in my
opinion the most important righteous Christian of the 21st century.
Over the years as her heart began to fail she was still
most likely to do most lonesome jobs of all.
“Cleaning the bathroom for Jesus.”4. She said with pleasure.
In 1997 a frail wheel
chair bound Mother Theresa attended morning Mass where she felt a pain
pulsating in her chest and refused to be removed from Mass. Where she stayed
for a few hours until she would be pronounced dead on September 5, 1997.
FOOT NOTES: Mother Theresa by Sam
Well-done
1. Chapter 8 Page 105: The Hungry, the naked,
homeless, the Cripple, the blind, lepers,’ All those who felt unwanted,
unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to
society and are shunned by everyone.”1
2. Chapter 16
Page 192: “He is a small simple man, easy to impress,’ ‘kissed me here on my forehead.”2
3. Chapter 16 Page 194: “We did not expect a
Saint to be so efficient.”3
4. Chapter 17 Page: 196: “We
did not expect a Saint to be so efficient.”3
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