There are no great things, only small things with great love.
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had sought to convey on 23 February a year ago that Mother Teresa’s service to the poor and the destitute was only a facade behind which she and her organisation carried out religious conversions.
Standing next to the statue of Pope John Paul, now Saint John Paul, the 5 feet 2 inches tall statue of Mother Teresa shows her bowing slightly with clasped palms, in the traditional gesture of greeting people. Ms. Banerjee said that she had accepted an invitation from the Missionaries of Charity to visit Rome during Mother Teresa’s canonisation on the very day on which results of the last Assembly elections were declared.
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Special thanksgiving prayers were organised to celebrate Mother Teresa’s 106th birth anniversary on Friday, coming just a few days ahead of her proposed canonization in Vatican on September 4. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children’s and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools. This fact has been put out by the Missionaries of Charity in a prayer card that says, “We thank you (Lord Jesus) for the gift of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, who will be canonised in this Jubilee Year of Mercy”. “The difference of caste, creed, colour, rich, poor will not prevent us from rejoicing together in the honour bestowed on Mother”, said Prema who is already in Vatican. A statue of Mother Teresa was also scheduled be unveiled at Bishop’s House in Kolkata by West Bengal state chief minister Mamata Banerjee later in the evening.
