Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defense of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded.
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In honor of the new saint’s life long mission, organizers bussed in 15 hundred homeless people.
Throngs of pilgrims flooded the Vatican on September 4 to celebrate the highly anticipated canonization of Mother Teresa, an event that Catholics and non-Catholics alike have looked forward to since the nun’s death in 1997.
Her defenders have, of course, pushed back against the critics for years, saying they need to live their lives like Mother Teresa before criticizing her work.
Since morning the House was kept open for public as visitors came throughout the day to pay their respects to the late Roman Catholic nun at her tomb.
“By her dealing with those who were at the very bottom of society, dying in the streets of Calcutta; by her compassion and love, the world was captivated”, he said.
“I really feel great because it’s so hard to find people like that”, said churchgoer David Guevara.
The church situated in Dum Dum area started functioning around five years ago. She arrived in India in 1929 as a sister of the Loreto order, and in 1946 she received what she described as a “call within a call”. Soon, Maria Theresa became known as the “saint of the gutters”.
Born to Kosovan Albanian parents in Skopje – then part of the Ottoman empire, now the capital of Macedonia – she won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and was revered around the world as a beacon for the Christian values of self-sacrifice and charity.
“Let us carry her smile in our hearts and give it to those whom we meet along our journey, especially those who suffer”.
Just 106 years after her birth, Mother Teresa of Calcutta is officially a saint in the Catholic Church.
The Polish cleric was a personal friend of Teresa and as the pope at the time of her death, he was responsible for her being beatified in 2003.
In his column in the Archdiocese’s publication Angelus News, Gomez called Mother Teresa “one of my favorite saints”.
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A group of nuns will travel to the Vatican for the canonization ceremony, and those who remain in Kolkata will mark the day with prayers of thanks.
