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Mother Theresa Essay, Research Paper

Mother Theresa

We all have our own heroes, people we admire and respect, people who

made an impact on our life, that made us look at the world with a

different eye, Mother Teresa is definitely the one for me.

Although the world is full of good people, great humanitarians that

really care, people who donate billions of dollars, people who raise

their voice to make a difference, Mother Teresa stands out in the

crowd, she is unique.

“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.”

She dedicated every day of her adult life caring for “The dying, the

crippled, the mentally ill, the unwanted, the unloved” and she loved

every minute of it because she was loving, she was cleaning, feeding

“Jesus in disguise.”

Yes, she fed them, sheltered them, cleaned their wounds, but what is

more important is that she made them feel good, loved, and wanted. She

gave them back their dignity that poverty had taken away from them and

even if they died, they died with a smile on their face knowing that

somebody loves them and somebody cares for them.

“Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your

eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a

cheerful smile. Don’t only give your care, but give your heart as

well.”

Agreeing or disagreeing with her on abortion, population control,

divorce, or how she raised the money should not shadow Mother Teresa’s

life-long contribution and dedication to the poor and humanity.

To criticize someone, It’s really easy… I suggest: stop criticizing

her and do it better than she did.

II. Body

A. Mother Teresa’s Life

Mother Teresa was born August 27, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, as Agnes

Gonxha Bojaxhiu from Albanian parents: Nikolle and Drandafille

Bojaxhiu.

Her father was a successful and well known contractor, her mother was a

housewife. She was the youngest of three children. Mother Teresa’s

family was a devoted catholic family. They prayed every evening and

went to church almost everyday. It was her family’s generosity, care

for the poor and the less fortunate that made a great impact on young

Mother Teresa’s life.

By the age of 12, she had made up her mind, she realized that her

vocation was aiding the poor. At age 18, she then decided to become a

nun, and traveled to Dublin, Ireland, to join the Sisters of Loretto.

After about a year in Ireland, she then leaves to join the Loretto

convent in the northeast Indian city of Darjeeling, where she spends 17

years teaching and being principal of St. Mary’s high school in

Calcutta.

In 1946, Mother Teresa’s life is changed forever. While riding a train

to the mountain town of Darjeeling to recover from suspected

tuberculosis, on the 10th of September, she said that she received a

calling from God “to serve among the poorest of the poor.” Less then a

year later she gets permission from the Catholic Church to leave her

order and move to Calcutta’s slums to set up her first school.

“Sister Agnes” who was a former student, becomes Mother Teresa’s first

follower. Others soon follow, and papal approval arrives to create a

religious order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity. The

foundation is celebrated on Oct. 7 1950, the feast of the Holy Rosary.

To identify herself with the poor she chooses to wear a plain white

sari with a blue border and a simple cross pinned to her left shoulder.

Their mission is as she would say when she accepted the Nobel peace

prize: “to care for 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.”

With the help of Calcutta officials she converts a portion of the

abandoned temple to Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction

into Kalighat Home for the Dying, where even the poorest people would

die with dignity. Soon after she opens up Nirmal Hriday (”Pure Heart”),

a home for the dying, and Shanti Nagar (Town of Peace), a leper colony

and later her first orphanage.

Mother Teresa and the sisters continued opening houses all over India

caring for the poor, washing their wounds, soothing their sores, making

them feel wanted. But her order’s work spread across the world after

1965, when Pope Paul VI granted Mother Teresa’s request to globally

expand her order.

Whether it was in Ethiopia feeding the hungry, the ghettos of South

Africa or it was her native country Albania when the communist regime

collapsed, Calcutta’s Mother Teresa “the living saint” was there.

In 1982, at the height of the siege in Beirut she convinced t

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