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Significant Event #1:
On January 06,1929 Mother teresa arrives in calcutta to begin her work among india’s poorest.
According to ( http://www.thisdayinworldhistoryy.com )“On January 6,1929 Mother Teresa arrived in the city at the foot of the himalayas, eager to learn Bengali and participate in the education programs run by the loreto convent.” At only 19 years old Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu ( Mother Teresa ) arrived in Kolkata, India to fulfill a long-held dream on January 6, 1929. According to (https://www.voanews.com)“Mother Teresa, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was known during her lifetime as the ‘saint of the gutters’ for her work among the poorest of the poor in India, arriving in Calcutta on January 6, 1929.”
Mother Teresa devoted most of her life on helping others and making a difference, she was not self centered because all she ever did was worry about other people besides herself. Also, according to ( https://www.biographyonline.net ) “On her arrival in India, she began by working as a teacher; however, the widespread poverty of Calcutta made a deep impression on her, and this led to her starting a new order called The Missionaries of Charity.” Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who dedicated her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world.
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“It is not how much we do,but how much love we put in the doing.It is not how much we give,but how much love we put in the giving.”– Mother Teresa. From: No Greater Love
Significant Event #2
On October 17,1979 Mother Teresa won the nobel peace prize.
Henceforth to ( https://www.nobelprize.org ) “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa.In the eyes of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, constructive efforts to do away with hunger and poverty, and to ensure for mankind safer and better world community in which to develop, should be inspired by the spirit of Mother Teresa, by respect for the worth and dignity of the individual human being.” Mother Teresa is rich in kindness and that’s something that can never be taken away from her.
But most of all her acceptance speech was beautiful,after all according to (https://www.nobelprize.org/26200-mother-teresa-acceptance-speech ) this is part of her acceptance speech “Let us all together thank God for this beautiful occasion where we can all together proclaim the joy of spreading peace, the joy of loving one another and the joy acknowledging that the poorest of the poor are our brothers and sisters.
As we have gathered here to thank God for this gift of peace, I have given you all the prayer for peace that St Francis of Assisi prayed many years ago, and I wonder he must have felt the need what we feel today to pray for. I think you have all got that paper? We’ll say it together. Lord, make me a channel of your peace, that where there is hatred, I may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; that where there is discord, I may bring harmony; that where there is error, I may bring truth; that where there is doubt, I may bring faith; that where there is despair, I may bring hope; that where there are shadows, I may bring light; that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted; to understand, than to be understood; to love, than to be loved. For it is by forgetting self, that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying, that one awakens to eternal life. Amen.”
‘Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.’
– Mother Teresa
Significant Event #3
On August 20,1993 Mother Teresa is hospitalized with malaria.
According to (https://www.nytimes.com ) “Mother Teresa was diagnosed today as suffering from malaria, and doctors expected her to remain in intensive care. The Roman Catholic nun, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after she came to New Delhi on Friday to receive an award. Mother Teresa, 82, was in stable condition with a mild fever and nausea.” Therefore according to (https://www.independent.co.uk) “THE CONDITION of Mother Teresa, who has malaria, worsened slightly last night.
Doctors at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi said that the recovery of the 82-year-old Nobel Peace Prize- winner has been slowed by ‘massive breathing problems’. She was admitted to hospital on Friday.” The doctors said Mother Teresa wasn’t too worrisome because her breathing was reported to have improved slightly by morning, but she relapsed yesterday afternoon.
According to (https://www.irishtimes.com ) “ THE medical condition of Mother Teresa of Calcutta deteriorated yesterday, with doctors diagnosing malaria in addition to continuing heart problems, Rahul Bed reports from New Delhi.A bulletin from the hospital in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta said malaria parasites’ had been detected in Mother Teresa’s body and her condition had worsened. It did not elaborate further.”
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. -Mother Teresa
Significant Event #4
On September 13,1997 Mother Teresa’s state funeral is Held in India.
According to (http://www.cnn.com ) “Calcutta, India (CNN) — Escorted by a military honor guard and draped in the flag of India, the body of Mother Teresa solemnly made its way Saturday morning through the streets of Calcutta, the teeming city whose poor she so loved.” Also according to (http://news.bbc.co.uk ) “Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, has died at the age of 87.”
Mother Teresa was a strong and independent woman and she did not deserve to die but life is harsh that way. According to (https://www.washingtonpost.com) ‘Crossing the frontiers of religious and ethnic differences, she has taught the world this lesson: It is more blessed to give than to receive,Cardinal Angelo Sodano, personal representative of Pope John Paul II, said in the funeral Mass.” Mother Teresa was the actual representation of a leader, she was a natural born leader and her death was such a tragedy.
“ If you judge people, you have no time to love them” – Mother Teresa
Significant Event #5
On October 19,2003 Mother Teresa of Calcutta was beatified by pope John Paul.
According to (http://www.cnn.com ) “VATICAN CITY (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands crowded St. Peter’s Square Sunday, celebrating Pope John Paul II’s beatification of Mother Teresa, known as the ‘Saint of the Gutters’ for her work with the poor.” Also according to (https://www.cbsnews.com ) “More than a quarter-million people – rich and poor, royal and regular – flooded St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for the beatification of Mother Teresa, honoring the nun who built shelters, orphanages and clinics around the world to care for those forsaken by everyone else.” (https://www.nytimes.com ) states that “With our apostolic authority, we grant that the venerable servant of God, Teresa of Calcutta, shall from now on be called blessed, the pope said in Latin. A huge portrait of Mother Teresa — a Nobel peace prize winner sometimes called the ‘saint of the gutters’ for her work in Calcutta — was unfurled on the great facade of St Peter’s Basilica, showing her smiling and deeply wrinkled.”
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”- Mother Teresa
