{"id":737,"date":"2008-09-05T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2008-09-05T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T10:22:00","slug":"september-5-ble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"September 5 ~~  Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi There!<\/p>\n<p>I just finished reading a book written by Mother Teresa. It made me interested in learning more about her life and her works.  <\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t very familiar with Mother Teresa and her life, CNN has a nice summary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/WORLD\/9709\/mother.teresa\/\">here<\/a> of the highlights of her life. <\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa is on the fast track to becoming canonized. <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">On Oct. 19, 2003, Pope John Paul II<br \/>\n&nbsp; beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who died in 1997. The beatification of the<br \/>\n&nbsp; Macedonia-born nun took place in Rome, and her popularity has remained strong in the months since.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">The process<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; leading up to the beatification has been the shortest in modern history. In early 1999\u2014less than two years after Mother Teresa&#8217;s&nbsp;<br \/>\ndeath\u2014Pope John Paul waived the normal five-year waiting period and allowed the immediate opening of her canonization cause.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">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&#8217;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&#8217;s intervention to help the sick woman. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">After her beatification, the recognition of another miracle will be required for sainthood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Some quotes from Mother Teresa:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Remember works of Love are works of Peace&quot; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">&quot;Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">&quot;Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>&quot;Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.<br \/>\n&quot;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&quot;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<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa is a patron of the poor, of course, and of children. Children held a very special place in her heart. <\/p>\n<p>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 \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p>Light and Love<\/p>\n<p>Sister Bridget<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voodooboutique.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/08\/29\/teresa_inside_icon.gif\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=162,height=98,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Teresa_inside_icon\" title=\"Teresa_inside_icon\" src=\"https:\/\/voodooboutique.typepad.com\/bridget\/images\/2008\/08\/29\/teresa_inside_icon.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t very familiar with Mother Teresa and her life, CNN has a nice summary here of the highlights of her life. 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