September 5 ~~ Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Hi There!

I just finished reading a book written by Mother Teresa. It made me interested in learning more about her life and her works.

If you aren’t very familiar with Mother Teresa and her life, CNN has a nice summary here of the highlights of her life.

Mother Teresa is on the fast track to becoming canonized. On Oct. 19, 2003, Pope John Paul II
  beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who died in 1997. The beatification of the
  Macedonia-born nun took place in Rome, and her popularity has remained strong in the months since.The process
                leading up to the beatification has been the shortest in modern history. In early 1999—less than two years after Mother Teresa’s 
death—Pope John Paul waived the normal five-year waiting period and allowed the immediate opening of her canonization cause.In 2002, the Pope recognized the healing of an Indian woman as the miracle needed to beatify Mother Teresa of Calcutta. That healing occurred on the first anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death. It involved a non-Christian woman in India who had a huge abdominal tumor and woke up to find the tumor gone. Members of the Missionaries of Charity prayed for their founder’s intervention to help the sick woman. After her beatification, the recognition of another miracle will be required for sainthood.

Some quotes from Mother Teresa:

"Remember works of Love are works of Peace"

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

"Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing."

 "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each
        other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."

Mother Teresa is a patron of the poor, of course, and of children. Children held a very special place in her heart.

It will be interesting to follow her story, and see when / if a second miracle occurs that would make Teresa a Saint. To see someone we have seen in this lifetime be canonized would be something very special, I think 😉

Light and Love

Sister Bridget