Missionary nuns carry relics of Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the front of the altar in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican on September 4 2016 Sunday during a special holy mass during which Pope Francis canonised the Roman Catholic nun and missionary. “I stayed at the Mother Teresa Charitable Trust there for a few days”.
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“I came to Calcutta because this is where it all began”.
Pope Francis is following in the footsteps of Mother Teresa by offering some 1,500 homeless people a pizza lunch at the Vatican after her canonization Mass.
“Pope Francis is trying to see a resetting and a new sense of direction revolved around social change and helping the poor”.
Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the eve of a sainthood ceremony for the nun who cared for India’s destitute.
A large gathering of approximately 120 000 people of all ages, races and social classes congregated at St Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday for the canonization ceremony performed by Pope Francis.
He added: “She made her voice heard before the powers of the world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crimes of poverty they themselves created”.
In New Hampshire, Catholics are calling the canonization inspiring. “We work together for the dignity of every human being and every person around us”. Francis chose to emphasize her other dealings with the powerful.
The Catholic Church has more than 10,000 saints, many of whom had to wait centuries before their elevation. Her shelters were also said to have “a shortage of medical care, hardly any stock of necessary nutrition, as well as the scarcity of analgesics for those in pain”.
But her worldwide reputation for service and sanctity so impressed St. John Paul II, a friend of Mother Teresa’s and pope when she died, that he waived the usual five-year waiting period and opened her cause for sainthood just two years after her death.
The Press Trust of India reports that some lay workers of the Missionaries of Charity took an 8-kilometer (5-mile) train ride on a tourist train in the Darjeeling hills in West Bengal state.
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“I was impressed by the energy and leadership she demonstrated”, she told the media. One of them, Marcilio Andrino of Brazil, unexpectedly recovered from a severe brain infection in 2008. “We pray to be like her”.
