When people hear I am from Kolkata, which used to be known as Calcutta, the usual follow up is a knowing nod and, “Oh, Mother Teresa”.
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But in Kolkata and across India, many view the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun as a humanitarian icon.
Kumar said she is “very happy and delighted” that the nun who inspired her will be declared a saint.
The road linking Satya Nagar and Cuttack-Puri road via flyover will be named as Mother Teresa Road.
Through her love for the poor and the dying, for the unborn and the handicapped, through her works of mercy and her work for peace and justice, she showed us the world as God intends it.
Faggioli said Mother Teresa is “the closest female model of the Jesuits that you can think of”, but her canonization is an acknowledgment of the powerful role women can play in the church without being ordained. “He was talking in intensive care (at the hospital) and I realized that he was cured, that Mother Teresa had interceded on our behalf and cured Marcilio”, Fernanda said.
Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, who was born in Winnipeg and obtained a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Manitoba in 1983, is the postulator (one who presents a case for canonization) of Mother Teresa. The latter could arise in people who had all the conveniences of life. I remember her deeply wrinkled face and sparkly eyes with which she made intense eye contact when she spoke to you.
“Fernanda and I are just normal people within God’s people”, Andrino said on the sidelines of a Catholic meeting before the canonization.
“It took me some time, and it still takes me time, to reflect about it and to understand it more deeply”, she said in an interview. “Bless us Mother, so that we can continue to serve the people”, Mamata said. She entered the convent in Dublin, Ireland in 1928, taking the name Teresa, after the patron Saint Therese of Lisieux.
Her canonisation has been completed in unusually quick time on the back of the extraordinary popularity she enjoyed during her lifetime and with the help of influential supporters. They said she romanticized poverty, and they questioned the quality of care in her homes and clinics, among other accusations.
In spite of her private misery, she persevered, believing in the work of identifying with the mission of Jesus, who had a special love of the poor – those on the margins of society, those without fame or wealth or power, those truly discarded by the rest of the world.
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The church acknowledges that saints are holy, but not flawless – a guide for the rest of us through rough terrain, and a light that her fellow Albanians already follow. He fast-tracked her beatification (the step before sainthood). He was taken to St. Joseph’s Nursery where he remained until age 7, when he was sent to Our Lady’s Home, a Catholic orphanage also founded by Mother Teresa. Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said Indians felt “proud” about the canonisation, the head of a Hindu grassroots movement that supports his government provoked controversy previous year by accusing Mother Teresa of seeking to convert people to Christianity.
