mother teresa of calcutta
3 Sep
“In order to understand and help those who have nothing, we must live like them.”- Blessed Mother Teresa
Following a divine inspiration and deeply moved by the poverty and suffering she saw in the streets of Calcutta, Mother Teresa left her teaching post at the convent in 1948 to devote herself completely to the city’s indigent residents.
Two years later, she founded her own congregation, the Missionaries of Charity. Like Mother Teresa, the nuns of the new order wore white saris with a blue border rather than traditional nuns’ habits. In addition to the traditional vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty, they took a fourth vow of wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor. “In order to understand and help those who have nothing,” Mother Teresa told the young women, “we must live like them.”
Blessed Mother Teresa’s Feast Day is September 5.
About Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Source: USPS on the launching of the Mother Teresa of Calcutta stamp
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