He said Mother Teresa was not afraid to lock heads with leaders who Pope Francis said were to be blamed for “the crimes of poverty they themselves created”.
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Pope Francis gave the formula for canonization in front of a huge crowd of pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, reports CNN. “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”.
“They traveled all night by bus to participate first in the canonization and then in the lunch”, said Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the Pope’s almoner.
Mother Teresa spent her life sacrificing for the poor, destitute and disabled – our planet’s most vulnerable.
When the Litany of the Saints was read during the canonization ceremony, it was clear that over the centuries, the church had sainted far more men than women. Bosco Fernandes, a member of the parish, said: “We collected money among ourselves and other parishers and distributed 50 food packets among the children”.
Pope Francis’ declaration of Mother Teresa as a saint at a morning Mass, makes her the model of his Jubilee Year of Mercy, and in some ways, his entire papacy.
Following the Mass, Gomez blessed and opened a chapel dedicated to Mother Teresa, where photographs and stories of her visits to Los Angeles will be displayed, as well as the relic, pieces of her hair in the form of a cross, for public veneration. She was “a generous dispenser of divine mercy”. “It’s about time she became a saint!” said Antonio Martinez, who celebrated the monumental occasion with his family at San Fernando Cathedral.
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“Her talk really reached all of us to see the great things that this small woman has accomplished”, Elaine Lucious of Bloomsburg said. She founded the Missionaries of Charity group, whose influence spread to over 130 countries and included of over 4,000 sisters who helped run soup kitchens all over the world. Hundreds of nuns collected in the Vatican to support their former “Missionaries of Charity” sister, 19 years after she passed away. They were given seats of honor at the mass and served pizza after the ceremony. I know for sure that she lived a like a saint. For numerous poor and destitute whom Mother Teresa served, the tiny nun was a living saint.
