MOTHER TERESA: A Biography

14 CREEK LANE During her first months on the Calcutta streets, Mother Teresa’s spiri- tual advisor, Father Van Exem, watched car ...

who came to visit her. Seeing her in her sari, some burst into tears. But all were glad to see her and to offer what help they c ...

Teresa in her work. Mother Teresa remarked, “It will be a hard life. Are you prepared for it?”^7 The young woman said yes, and i ...

cared for the sick on the spot as they lay in the streets and alleys of the city. Mother Teresa worried about her charges. Remem ...

priest in question immediately apologize to the superior for his criticism of Mother Teresa and her work. While Mother Teresa aw ...

hearted free service to the poorest of the poor, according to the teaching and the life of our Lord in the gospel, revealing in ...

of Charity as a new congregation limited to the diocese of Calcutta. That same day, 11 young women began their lives as postulat ...

were asking our Lady of Fatima to obtain for us the new house we needed.^13 Finally, a suitable house was found at 54A Lower Cir ...

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Chapter 5 “RIGOROUS POVERTY IS OUR SAFEGUARD” Lower Circular Road is a humming center of activity in Calcutta. The street is fil ...

Despite the spacious new surroundings, Mother Teresa was determined that her congregation live a life shaped by extreme poverty. ...

place. For Mother Teresa and her nuns, living among the poor and living like the poor was a means to find God and bear witness t ...

Benedicamus Domino (“Let us bless the Lord”) and the response of Deo Gratias(“Thanks be to God”). Dressing at their bedsides wit ...

By noontime, many sisters returned to Motherhouse for prayers and a midday meal, which consisted of five ladles of bulgur wheat ...

ing them as trying to convert the poor to Catholicism. Others simply did not want charity. For those young women who offered the ...

Mother Teresa asked nothing of others that she would not do herself. She worked with her sisters and was protective of their wel ...

had founded. Despite his early resistance to Mother Teresa’s efforts, the archbishop had demonstrated his full support in the or ...

plemented changes, but tried to make the religious vocations more meaningful and pertinent to keep in step with the twentieth ce ...

have televisions in the homes of monastics, it was harder for outsiders to understand the absence of newspapers or magazines; in ...

THE INCULTURATION OF POVERTY One of the greatest challenges that faced Mother Teresa, and that con- tinues today, was the diffic ...