Her Missionaries of Charity has been a beacon of light for the poorest of the poor for decades, another reason why there’s universal appreciation of the Vatican’s decision.
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“Mother Teresa had visited this church several years ago”.
In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity, which went onto become a global order of nuns priests, brothers and lay co-workers.
Dolan and those in attendance at St. Patrick’s Cathedral remembered Mother Teresa as a role model for their lives and the lives of countless others.
Baltimore’s City Hall is being lit up in blue Sunday night, as ordered by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, in honor of Pope Francis’ naming Mother Teresa as a Saint. “Now, just a little over 20 years later, we see her canonized”. She died 19 years ago nearly to the day, September 5, 1997 at the age of 87. “Mother is a great saint, a very great saint, but she always said it is God who is working through me”.
Amid prayers, city dwellers seem to have given the best tribute to Saint Teresa of Calcutta as the biggest celebration was not in any church, but was rather among the destitute.
“I think it’s hard as a woman and as a mother”, Jaworowski said.
The canonization ceremony took place under a broiling sun before a crowd of 120,000 in St. Peter’s Square, according to Vatican estimates.
“She made her voice heard before the powers of the world, so that they might recognise their guilt for the crimes of poverty they themselves created”.
Her husband, Greg Jaworowski, said he took part in World Youth Day in Poland this year.
Among those those celebrating the canonization were “1,500 people from shelters run by the Italian branches of Saint Teresa’s order”, all of whom acted as Pope Francis’s guests for the pizza lunch, which was served by local nuns and priests. She called out to two of Mother Teresa’s nuns who she saw in the distance.
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Writing in The Guardian, she described Mother Teresa as a “petty autocrat” and said that as a child she had hated her.
