Mother Teresa
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The Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C.,commonly known as Mother Teresa (Skopje, Albania, 26 August 1910 - Calcutta, India 5 September 1997), born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian-born, Indian Roman Catholic Religious Sister. In the year 1950 Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. For over 45 years she served the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, at the same time guiding the expansion of her congregation, at first in India and later in other countries. After her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II, giving the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and the highest civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. A dozen of first level national and international awards joined them.
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Mother Teresa: Meet with a smile
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Mother Teresa: World Peace
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Mother Teresa: Doing things
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Tuesday Mar 1, 2022
Mother Teresa: Where Love starts
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Mother Teresa: The small things
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Monday May 24, 2021
Mother Teresa: Two kinds of hunger
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Tuesday Apr 6, 2021
Mother Teresa: A simple smile
We shall never know all the good
that a simple smile can do.
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Mother Teresa: Doing and giving with love
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 is put in the giving.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Mother Teresa: We belong to each other
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Mother Teresa: Bread and a little love
There are many people in this world who yearn for a piece of bread but there are many more yearning for a little love.
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Mother Teresa: Loving instead of judging
If you judge people, you have no time to love them
Wednesday Dec 26, 2018
Mother Teresa: We must learn how to forgive
If we really want to love,
we must learn how to forgive.
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Mother Teresa: Doing things together
You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things.
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Mother Teresa: Every time you smile at someone
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Wednesday Oct 25, 2017
Mother Teresa: Blessings and lessons
Some people come in your life as blessings.
Some come in your life as lessons.
Wednesday May 3, 2017
Mother Teresa: Never worry about numbers
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
Wednesday Mar 15, 2017
Mother Teresa: Kind words
Kind words can be short, and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Friday Feb 26, 2016
Mother Teresa: The paradox
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Tuesday Dec 23, 2014
Mother Teresa: Spreading love
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
