After officiating the canonization Mass for Mother Teresa of Calcutta on Sunday, Pope Francis played host to 1,500 poor people from a number of Italian cities, throwing them a pizza party in the Vatican.
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Meanwhile, inside Chicago’s St. John Cantius Parish on the North Side, a member of Teresa’s own Missionaries of Charity order referred to the freshly canonized saint as “Mother Teresa”.
Young Catholics who live at this new student housing facility watched the ceremony, and celebrated Mother Teresa’s sainthood. Mother Teresa died just 19 years ago.
“She had that lovely saying, ‘God doesn’t want us to be flawless, he only wants us to be faithful.’ And she was faithful even in times of trial”, Dolan said. Find us on Facebook too!
Throughout the course of her life, she received a Nobel Peace Prize, an honorary degree from the University of Cambridge and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Pope Francis however, held world powers to account “for the crimes of poverty they created”. Pope Francis made the official declaration during a canonization mass held at the Vatican, where thousands of fans gathered to praise the late nun for her huge charity work.
Francis said that even though the nun had been declared a saint, she would always be Mother Teresa to the Catholic family.
“All of us are called to be holy, and we look to the saints to help us to become better people”, said Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Rita Ora wowed fans with a powerful performance to celebrate Mother Teresa’s canonisation at the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy, on Saturday night (03Sep16).
Visitors watching Nobel prize victor Mother Teresa ‘s canonisation programme at Mother house Kolkata through live telecast in Kolkata on September 04, 2016.
Saint Teresa’s canonization happened quickly, too.
Kaliea says despite so many years passing, he still lives by the lessons he learned from Mother Teresa.
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Special prayers were conducted at catholic churches in the city in connection with canonization of Mother Teresa here on Sunday.
