He acknowledged even he’d find it hard to call her “St. Teresa” since her tenderness was so motherly.
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India renamed the city of Calcutta to Kolkata in 2001 to match the Bengali pronunciation.
“During my half an hour interview with Mother (Teresa)”.
Pope Francis has declared Mother Teresa a saint, honoring the tiny nun who cared for the world’s most destitute as an icon for a Catholic Church that goes to the peripheries to find poor, wounded souls.
Having stayed away from TV sets all their life, hundreds of nuns of the Missionaries of Charity made an exception when they were glued to screens beaming Mother Teresa’s canonisation ceremony live.
“Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defence of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded”.
“She bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity”. “She may not be here with us, but we are still driven by her teachings”, she said.
Brennan said he received an invitation to her canonization but had to decline. “May she be your model of holiness”.
Pope Francis said Sunday morning that people may struggle to refer to the Albanian nun as “Saint Teresa”.
“This mother was simple, very poor and devout and for us she is a testament to serving others”, Sister Leandra said.
In India, a special Mass was celebrated at the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded in Kolkata.
Earlier, on August 28, Modi paid tributes to Mother Teresa, saying every Indian must feel proud that she was going to be recognised as a saint.
The pope waived the waiting period in part, some believe, because of her fame and reputation. Soon thereafter, John Paul placed her on the fast-track for sainthood.
“I took doctors’ medicines, threw up and was in a lot of pain”.
In 1950, she established the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic Latin Rite religious congregation which is now active in more than 200 countries.
Pope Francis called Mother Teresa “a tireless worker of mercy” in a year he has proclaimed as a Jubilee Year to celebrate the theme of mercy.
Mother Teresa is credited with healing an Indian woman from stomach cancer in 1998 and a Brazilian man from a brain infection in 2008.
The ceremony came on the eve of the 19th anniversary of Teresa’s death in Kolkata, where she spent almost four decades working in wretched slums.
Her small figure, often in a white-and-blue sari and sandals, became familiar around the world.
According to correspondence that came to light after she died in 1997, Teresa experienced what the church calls a “dark night of the soul” – a period of spiritual doubt, despair and loneliness that numerous great mystics experienced. Francis also used his sermon to recall Mother Teresa’s fervent opposition to abortion, which she termed “murder by the mother” in a controversial Nobel Peace Prize speech in 1979.
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“Mother Teresa’s humility was felt by all mankind cutting across caste and religion”. “Everything that was said about her was true”. And some doctors claim Besra was healed by modern medicine, not by prayer. In her 20 years as a Loreto nun, first a teacher and later principal, she developed the discipline of an Order.
