Saint
Mother Teresa – Saint of Calcutta
Update: 15 March 2016
Mother Teresa
Pope Francis canonised Mother Teresa at St Peter’s Square, Vatican City. She was assigned as the Saint of Calcutta on 4 September 2016, (the eve of her death anniversary – 5 September 1997).
Her Feast Day is 5 September.
The criteria for sainthood follows:
1. At least five years after ‘candidate’s death
2. Character checks by priests and bishops
3. Show proof of heroic deeds
4. Verified miracles through prayers of at least two instances
First: A 30-year-old woman in Kolkata said she was cured of a stomach tumor after praying to Mother Teresa. A Vatican committee said it could find no scientific explanation for her healing and declared it a miracle.
Second: The healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors after loved ones prayed to Mother Teresa to heal him, the Italian Catholic bishops’ association’s official newspaper Avvenire reported.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Bojaxhiu in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire later Macedonia, she took the name Sister Teresa in Ireland, where she began her training as a nun with the Loreto Sisters.
She founded her order in 1948 and went out to work in the slums of Calcutta.
She was sometimes accused by Hindus in her adopted country of trying to convert the poor to Catholicism by “stealth” and criticised by liberals who disliked her conservative stance on abortion and contraception.
But her biographer and friend Navin Chana said she would be remembered as someone who “gave the word compassion a new dimension”.
– Source: BBC News
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She became a symbol for compassion as well as kindness.
Mother Teresa was canonised on 5 September 2016.
As Quoted by Mother Teresa
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. – Mother Teresa
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
– Mother Teresa
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Holiness is not the luxury of a few. It is everyone’s duty, yours and mine.
– Mother Teresa
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
– Mother Teresa
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa
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“I have found the paradox, that if you
love until it hurts, there can be no
more hurt, only more love.”
― Mother Teresa
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
– Mother Teresa
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
– Mother Teresa
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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.
– Mother Teresa
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Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
– Mother Teresa
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People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred. Love them anyway.
– Mother Teresa
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Peace begins with a smile.
-Mother Teresa
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Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of Himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will grow big enough to receive Him and keep Him as your own.
– Mother Teresa
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~Mother Teresa
Smile at each other; smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
– Mother Teresa
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