mother teresa-a lady of peace
Anyone know about the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu ??? but I am sure that all indians and even all human beings know about her. Because Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is the name of the great human being MOTHER TERESA, a lady of peace and service .
FAMILY LIFE:
Our mother mother teresa was born in 27th august in year 1910 in skjope,yugoslivia. Her father name is Nikolle Bojaxhiu and her Mother Name is Drana. she was the youngest in her family with one brother and one sister and her Brother Name is Lazar and Sister Name is Aga. Her father died when she was eight. Her mother raised her as a Roman Catholic in her early years and she was inspired by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service.
AGNES TO SISTER TERESA
Due to inspiration of stories of the lives of missionaries and their service, she was decided that she should commit herself to a religious life in the age of 12. In 1928, at the age of 18, she left her home and traveled to Loreto Abbey in Ireland to learn English and begin her life as a Loreto nun in sisters of loreto. When she was 21, she took her first vow(promise) in the year of 1931 on 24th may. At that time she changed the name Teresa from agnes after St. Teresa of Avila, patroness of the Missionaries. After that she called as a sister Teresa.
Teresa as a teacher
The Sisters of Loreto used to teach school children in India and so She came to India to teach Geography and History at St. Mary's, a Loreto school, in Calcutta, West Bengal in the year of 1928.due to hardwork and sincere, She became the head teacher and took her final vows(promises) as a Loreto nun in 1937. Although Teresa enjoyed teaching at the school, she was disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta
DAY OF INSPIRATION
On 10 September 1946, Teresa experienced a wonderful experience while traveling to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. she described that god spoke to her, while she was praying she said that she got a order from god to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. she later described this incident as "the call within the call".
Sister Teresa returned to the convent in Calcutta and requested for leave to work in the slums, but her request was refused. After two years she was given special permission from the Loreto Order to work in the slums. Sister Teresa finally left the Loreto convent on August 16th 1948 to work for our people. She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948 and she started a school in Motijhil and she started tending to the needs of the destitute and starving.
SISTER TERESA TO MOTHER TERESA
As she left the loreto convent, she changed her traditional Loreto habit with a simple white cotton saree decorated with a blue border. During the first year of service, She had no income and had to resort to begging for food and supplies. She even experienced doubt, loneliness and the temptation to return to the comfort of convent life during these early months. But due to her sincerity in service, she got permissionfrom vaatican on 7 October 1950 to start Missionaries of Charity. After that , she was called as MOTHER TERESA
MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY
Missionaries of Charity was described as "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." By Teresa itself. It is started with 13 members in calcutta
After this, her daily routine become simple. She Wake up at 04.30 am and attending two hours prayer with all sisters. After a Light Breakfast. she walked out to work in the slums, dressed with blue bordered white sari and a bag on the shoulder to teach the children, and work with the sick, the dying or those suffering from leprosy and collecting , preparing and give out food to people and raise the funds for the needy people.
SOME SERVICES OF HER:
She received medical training and education in Paris And She started a dispensary, handing out bandages, medicines and food, donated by people.in 1948, she started a school under trees to educate poor children. In 1952,she opened Nirmal Hruday ,a House for the dying people. As the Missionaries of Charity took in increasing numbers of orphan children, Mother Teresa felt the need to create a home for them and she opened the Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, the Children's Home of the Immaculate Heart in the year of 1955.
In year 1969,she opened Shanti Nagar,a City of peace and also she opened Opened Prem Nivas ,a A leprosy village.
In the year of 1971, she opened Nirmal Canady home near Dumdum airport, Calcutta for refuges/victims of Pakistan – Bangladesh war
In the year 1981, Mother Teresa also began the Corpus Christi Movement for Priest and in 1984 she founded with Fr. Joseph Langford the Missionaries of Charity Fathers
By 1996, she was operating 517 missions in more than 100 countries
AWARDS BY OUR MOTHER TERESA
She was called as "Saint of the Gutters“, due to dedication the majority of her life in helping the poorest of the poor in India
In 1962, she was awarded with padmashri award
In 1962, Mother Teresa received the Philippines-based Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding, given for work in South or East Asia.
In 1971, she was awarded with pope john xxiii peace prize by pope paul vi
In 1972, she was awarded with nehru award
In 1979 due to devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the nobel peace prize.
In 1979, she won balzan prize
In 1980, she was awarded with bharat ratna by Indian government
In 1982, She was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia
In 1985, she was awarded with medal of freedom
She got Special Award for Excellence from the Indo-American Society at the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta Sunday, March 16, 1997.
HER LAST DAYS
In 1983, During a visit with Pope John Paul II, She had first heart attack and she suffered with it. In 1989 , She suffered another and more serious heart attack and due to this heart attack a pacemaker was installed . On 13th September 1997 , a women of peace slept in peace. All leaders from india andc from all other countries felt very bad for Teresa’s death
A FEW LITERATURE BY HER
“Nakedness is not only for a piece of clothing; nakedness is lack of human dignity, and also that beautiful virtue of purity, and lack of that respect for each other.”
“ I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of Missionaries of Charity.”
"Jesus has a very special love for you. [But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see,—Listen and do not hear—the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me—that I let Him have [a] free hand."
CONCLUSION:
Mother Teresa stated that she came to service for poor after she got order from god. In this , I don’t want to discuss about presence or absence of god. If the god was responsible to change Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu as mother teresa to earth means, then there is nothing wrong to trust god.
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