He said that on September 7-8, pilgrims would be allowed to visit the room Teresa used on visits to Rome, in the convent of the Church of San Gregorio Magno near the Colosseum, where her Missionaries of Charity have a local branch.
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She will join a group of over 10,000 people recognized by the church as being holy because of the way they lived. He serves as spiritual director at Mount St. Mary Seminary in Maryland.
“When I met her, I didn’t have any doubt that she was already a living saint”, he said. It was previously known as Calcutta. But when nuns from the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, helped her tumour was gone within hours. “Her testimonies were always about serving the poorest of the poor”, he said. She noted the portrayal of Mother’s “penetrating eyes”, serenity, and her “focusing on the person that she’s looking at”. Nineteen years later, the Catholic Church will make that title official. Hearing the noise, Mother Teresa came out and “as she moved towards the vehicle, the people who were about to attack the van came under sort of a spell, became absolutely quiet and went away”.
The priest recalled that in 1991, the British medical journal the Lancet visited a home she ran in Kolkata for the dying and said untrained carers failed to recognise when some patients could have been cured. “This is not going to happen for Mother Teresa”. He’ll also be recognizing holiness in a woman who felt so abandoned by God that she was unable to pray and was convinced, despite her ever-present smile, that she was experiencing the “tortures of hell”.
Sainthood may be Mother Teresa’s highest honor, but it isn’t her only one.
Last month, the pope appointed six men and six women to a commission to study female deacons. While neither of the woman are now alive (Mark died in May 2015 and Mother Teresa died in September 1997), the treasured black-and-white photographs of their time spent together still live on. “There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God” – St Teresa of Calcutta.
In her adopted India, a primarily Hindu nation, Mother Teresa has been accused of looking to convert the destitute to Christianity – something her mission has repeatedly denied.
A Catholic Church in the Berkshire County village of Housatonic will be renamed this weekend, when Mother Teresa of Calcutta becomes a saint. As a result, Upton said, images of her good work were broadcast across the world.
Still, Mother Teresa has her critics. He also wrote that she accepted money from wealthy people with a questionable past.
Rome’s police headquarters said 13 heads of state are expected to attend the Mass, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and 3,000 police officers will provide security throughout Rome during the event.
Mariama Diallo reported this story for VOANews.com.
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