“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” Mother Teresa has spread such positivity across the whole world as today marks her birthday anniversary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
At the age of 87, on September 5, 1997, she bid farewell to the world for good. But even today, she is living in people’s hearts. She always supported the needy and never discriminated against people on the basis of race, religion and carved the right path for people to follow.
Mother Teresa’s birth name was Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu. Mother Teresa belonged to a simple family. They had 5 sisters in which Mother Teresa was the youngest. Her father died at the time she was just 8 years old. After which Mother Teresa was brought up by her mother. She was inspired by her mother as she taught her how to share things. The family’s financial condition wasn’t the best and that’s the reason her mother tried to inculcate sharing values in her.
At the age of 16, Mother Teresa became a Roman Catholic nun. Two years later he got the title ‘Mother Teresa’.
Teresa shifted to Calcutta in 1929, for 15 years, she gave education to poor girls there. In 1950, the Missionaries of Charity was initiated in India under the Roman Catholic Organisation.
The missionaries of charity organization works for the welfare and rehabilitation of victims of leprosy and tuberculosis. This institution is now working in 133 countries with the help of 4500 Active Sisters.
To honour sewage cleaners, Teresa wore a blue-striped white sari her entire life. It is also claimed that she owned only three sarees in her life. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her great work. She was also honoured with Bharat Ratna after the death.
"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
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