Within days she was fully conscious, asked to receive communion, and requested that the doctors send her home. When she was sent home a few weeks later in early September, a doctor said she firmly believed, "God will take care of me. In late November of that same year, Mother Teresa was again hospitalized. She had angioplasty surgery to clear two blocked arteries. She was also given a mild electric shock to correct an irregular heartbeat. She was released after spending almost a month in the hospital.
In March , after an eight week selection process, year-old Sister Nirmala was named as the new leader of the Missionaries of Charity. Although Mother Teresa had been trying to cut back on her duties for some time because of her health problems , she stayed on in an advisory role to Sister Nirmala.
The movie aired in the fall of on "The Family Channel" even though, after viewing the movie, Mother Teresa refused to endorse it. Mother Teresa celebrated her 87th birthday in August, and died shortly thereafter of a heart attack on September 5, The world grieved her loss and one mourner noted, "It was Mother herself who poor people respected.
When they bury her, we will have lost something that cannot be replaced. In appearance Mother Teresa was both tiny only about five feet tall and energetic.
Her face was quite wrinkled, but her dark eyes commanded attention, radiating an energy and intelligence that shone without expressing nervousness or impatience. Many of her recruits came from people attracted by her own aura of sanctity, and she seemed little changed by the worldwide attention she received.
Conservatives within the Catholic Church sometimes used her as a symbol of traditional religious values that they felt lacking in their churches. By popular consensus she was a saint for the times, and a spate of almost adoring books and articles started to canonize her in the s and well into the s. She herself tried to deflect all attention away from what she did to either the works of her group or to the god who was her inspiration. She continued to combine energetic administrative activities with a demanding life of prayer, and if she accepted opportunities to publicize her work they had little of the cult of personality about them.
In the wake of the Nobel Prize for Peace she received many other international honors, but she sometimes disconcerted humanitarian groups by expressing her horror at abortion or her own preference for prayer rather than politics. When asked what would happen to her group and work after her death, she told people that God would surely provide a successor—a person humbler and more faithful than she. The Missionaries of Charity, who had brothers as well as sisters by the mids, are guided by the constitution she wrote for them.
They have their vivid memories of the love for the poor that created the phenomenon of Mother Teresa in the first place. So the final part of her story will be the lasting impact her memory has on the next generations of missionaries, as well as in the world as a whole. The books contained reflections, meditations, and prayers that provided a good basis for judging Mother Teresa's spirituality.
Of the constantly growing number of biographies and studies, Malcolm Muggeridge's Something Beautiful for God deserved special mention, because it was one of the first and best publicized treatments. Muggeridge made no effort to conceal his admiration.
See also Maclean's March 24, and People June 30, They also opened a home for orphans and abandoned children. Before long they had a presence in more than twenty-two Indian cities. Benefactors, or those donating money, regularly would arrive to support works in progress or to encourage the Sisters to open new ventures.
By Mother Teresa's groups had more than two hundred different operations in over twenty-five countries around the world, with dozens more ventures on the horizon.
The same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. In she persuaded President Fidel Castro — to allow a mission in Cuba. The characteristics of all of Mother Teresa's works—shelters for the dying, orphanages, and homes for the mentally ill—continued to be of service to the very poor.
In Mother Teresa sent her Missionaries of Charity into Russia and opened a home for acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS; an incurable disease that weakens the immune system patients in San Francisco, California.
In she returned home to Albania and opened a home in Tirana, the capital. At this time there were homes operating in India. Mother Teresa.
Despite the appeal of this saintly work, all commentators remarked that Mother Teresa herself was the most important reason for the growth of her order and the fame that came to it. Unlike many "social critics," she did not find it necessary to attack the economic or political structures of the cultures that were producing the terribly poor people she was serving. For her, the primary rule was a constant love, and when social critics or religious reformers improvers chose to demonstrate anger at the evils of structures underlying poverty and suffering, that was between them and God.
In the s and s Mother Teresa's health problems became a concern. She had a near fatal heart attack in and began wearing a pacemaker, a device that regulates the heartbeat. In March , after an eight week selection process, sixty-three-year-old Sister Nirmala was named as the new leader of the Missionaries of Charity. Although Mother Teresa had been trying to cut back on her duties for some time because of her health, she stayed on in an advisory role to Sister Nirmala.
Mother Teresa celebrated her eighty-seventh birthday in August, and died shortly thereafter of a heart attack on September 5, The world grieved her loss and one mourner noted, "It was Mother herself who poor people respected. When they bury her, we will have lost something that cannot be replaced. In appearance Mother Teresa was both tiny and energetic. Her face was quite wrinkled, but her dark eyes commanded attention, radiating an energy and intelligence that shone without expressing nervousness or impatience.
Conservatives within the Catholic Church sometimes used her as a symbol of traditional religious values that they felt were lacking in their churches. By most accounts she was a saint for the times, and several almost adoring books and articles started to canonize declare a saint her in the s and well into the s.
She herself tried to deflect all attention away from what she did to either the works of her group or to the God who was her inspiration. The Missionaries of Charity, who had brothers as well as sisters by the mids, are guided by the constitution Mother Teresa wrote for them. They have their vivid memo ries of the love for the poor that created the phenomenon of Mother Teresa in the first place.
The final part of her story will be the lasting impact her memory has on the next generations of missionaries, as well as on the world as a whole. Egan, Eileen. Such a Vision of the Street. Gar den City, NY: Doubleday, Le Joly, Edward.
While the cause of his death remains unknown, many have speculated that political enemies poisoned him. In the aftermath of her father's death, Agnes became extraordinarily close to her mother, a pious and compassionate woman who instilled in her daughter a deep commitment to charity.
Although by no means wealthy, Drana Bojaxhiu extended an open invitation to the city's destitute to dine with her family. When Agnes asked who the people eating with them were, her mother uniformly responded, "Some of them are our relations, but all of them are our people. Agnes attended a convent-run primary school and then a state-run secondary school.
As a girl, she sang in the local Sacred Heart choir and was often asked to sing solos. The congregation made an annual pilgrimage to the Church of the Black Madonna in Letnice, and it was on one such trip at the age of 12 that she first felt a calling to religious life. Six years later, in , an year-old Agnes Bojaxhiu decided to become a nun and set off for Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin.
Afterward, she was sent to Calcutta, where she was assigned to teach at Saint Mary's High School for Girls, a school run by the Loreto Sisters and dedicated to teaching girls from the city's poorest Bengali families.
Sister Teresa learned to speak both Bengali and Hindi fluently as she taught geography and history and dedicated herself to alleviating the girls' poverty through education. On May 24, , she took her Final Profession of Vows to a life of poverty, chastity and obedience.
As was the custom for Loreto nuns, she took on the title of "Mother" upon making her final vows and thus became known as Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa continued to teach at Saint Mary's, and in she became the school's principal. Through her kindness, generosity and unfailing commitment to her students' education, she sought to lead them to a life of devotion to Christ.
On September 10, , Mother Teresa experienced a second calling, the "call within a call" that would forever transform her life. She was riding in a train from Calcutta to the Himalayan foothills for a retreat when she said Christ spoke to her and told her to abandon teaching to work in the slums of Calcutta aiding the city's poorest and sickest people.
Since Mother Teresa had taken a vow of obedience, she could not leave her convent without official permission. After nearly a year and a half of lobbying, in January she finally received approval to pursue this new calling.
That August, donning the blue-and-white sari that she would wear in public for the rest of her life, she left the Loreto convent and wandered out into the city. After six months of basic medical training, she voyaged for the first time into Calcutta's slums with no more specific a goal than to aid "the unwanted, the unloved, the uncared for. Mother Teresa quickly translated her calling into concrete actions to help the city's poor.
She began an open-air school and established a home for the dying destitute in a dilapidated building she convinced the city government to donate to her cause. In October , she won canonical recognition for a new congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, which she founded with only a handful of members—most of them former teachers or pupils from St.
Mary's School. As the ranks of her congregation swelled and donations poured in from around India and across the globe, the scope of Mother Teresa's charitable activities expanded exponentially. Over the course of the s and s, she established a leper colony, an orphanage, a nursing home, a family clinic and a string of mobile health clinics.
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