The canonization Mass, which saw Mother Teresa honored officially as a Catholic saint, took place in a sunny Saint Peter’s Square Sunday before a crowd of more than 100,000 people from around the world.
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“It was a heavenly experience”, said M Fatima MC with the Missionaries of Charity Convent House.
While Mother Teresa became famous for her care of the poorest of the materially poor, he said she knew the worst form of poverty was to be unloved and unwanted. She dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor and show love to the dying.
And Mother Teresa captured the essence of motherhood, because she loved even the most
unlovable. Hundreds of nuns hailing from Missionaries of Charity religious order Mother Teresa had founded in 1950 also witnessed the canonization.
Its over 4,000 members follow Teresa’s injunction to work on “small things with great love” for those suffering both material and spiritual poverty.
The Vatican brought in a team of some 20 pizza bakers, complete with three mobile ovens, to churn out thick-crusted Neapolitan pizzas for the guests in the spirit of the Albanian nun who devoted her life to serving the “poorest of the poor”.
“I rejoice the canonisation of Mother Teresa”, Ansari said.
Missionaries of Charity can often be seen walking the streets in Southcrest and leading prayers in the community. The head of the state government said that from now on the road, which runs right in front of the Archbishop’s house, will be known as “Saint Mother Teresa Road”. “It is time for all of us – she continued – to take a page from her book of compassion and serve the poor and the afflicted”. “She inspired millions to serve humanity in their own way, by her actions”, he observed.
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Some say the church expedited her sainthood because of her fame and reputation. She was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
