Mother Teresa: A Biography

no longer controlled British India, and a year later, the British Crown took over the administration. Almost two decades later, ...

tance in most every aspect of daily life. This meant boycotting all British- made goods, refusing to send children to British sc ...

the streets everyday. Adding to the overcrowding and chaos were the swarms of refuges fleeing the Japanese. The noise of the str ...

for the Muslims and not for Sisters. I was a young priest who wanted to work with intellectuals; I did not want to be busy with ...

bleed to death. Entrails spilled onto sidewalks already red with blood; most everywhere one looked there were dead bodies, while ...

NOTES Navin Chawla, Mother Teresa: The Authorized Biography(Rockport, Mass.: Element, 1992), p. 15. Kathryn Spink, Mother Teres ...

Chapter 3 A NEW DIRECTION AND A NEW JOURNEY Few would disagree that Inspiration Day was a turning point for Mother Teresa. But t ...

was to start a new congregation or order of nuns, who would work for the poor in the slums. The members of this new congregation ...

to explain his or her case. If the religious is humble, obedient, dutiful the impulse may come from God.^3 Despite his open-mind ...

bishop applying for a new congregation had to demonstrate that the ex- isting orders did not do the work for which the new one w ...

The mother general could not have sent stronger support. Both Mother Teresa and Father Van Exem were overjoyed with the response ...

AN EMOTIONAL DEPARTURE Despite Mother Teresa’s willingness to leave immediately to begin her work, there was still much to be do ...

wished to see their teacher in a sari, her leaving was a solitary affair. That evening, she left the convent grounds in a taxi a ...

called. This experience not only gave Mother Teresa an opportunity to practice her Hindi, in which she was not very fluent, but ...

mission from the Vatican in order to establish an order of nuns who were also practicing surgeons and midwives. Among Mother Den ...

cal Mission Sisters for too short a time. He had fully expected her to stay much longer: at least six months, even up to a year. ...

Chapter 4 OUT OF A CESSPOOL—HOPE Shortly after his visit with Mother Teresa and the Medical Mission Sis- ters, Father Van Exem w ...

to draw on and were completely dependent on donations of food and money. This dependence on God and the charity of others became ...

BEGINNING RIGHT ON THE GROUND The next morning, Mother Teresa was back in Motijihl and was happy to see several children waiting ...

to be amputated. Saying a prayer and taking a pair of scissors, she snipped it off. Her patient then fainted in one direction an ...