From Homes to Sunday schools, children often are reminded and enlightened about a humble woman who was selfless, generous and cared more for the poor and needy than herself. Teachers, pastors and mentors always encourage children to follow her example and practice compassion.
From Homes to Sunday schools, children often are reminded and enlightened about a humble woman who was selfless, generous and cared more for the poor and needy than herself. Teachers, pastors and mentors always encourage children to follow her example and practice compassion.
Who is Mother Teresa?
Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia, and she is the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor.
Considered one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th century, she was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016. As a Catholic nun and missionary, Mother Teresa taught in India for 17 years before she experienced her "call within a call” to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor. She was baptized as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
Through her kindness, generosity and unfailing commitment to her students’ education, she sought to lead them to a life of devotion to Christ. "Give me the strength to be the light of their lives, so that I may lead them at last to you,” she wrote in prayer.
Briefly, Mother Teresa received various honours for her tireless and effective charity, and this includes; The Jewel of India; The now-defunct Soviet Union’s Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Committee; and The Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work "in bringing help to suffering humanity.”
Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87. To the world, Mother Teresa will always be remembered as the "saint of the gutters” for her humility and affection for the "unwanted, unloved and uncared for” of Calcutta’s slums.
Some of Mother Teresa’s Quotes