The Nobel Laureate got her sainthood within a record time of only 20 years. “It is up to us to carry forward her legacy and that we need to recognise the dignity of life in this selfish individualistic world”, he said.
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The BJP of Manipur is grateful that Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent a delegation led by a person no lesser than Sushma Swaraj (MEA) to the Vatican, for the canonization mass. Photographs of Mother Teresa adorned the walls of the room as people sat on benches and on the floor watching the telecast silently.
The order that Mother Teresa started with 12 nuns now numbers more than 5,800 people in 139 countries, including two orders of brothers and one of priests. Francis chose to emphasize her other dealings with the powerful.
My real experience of Mother Teresa actually came after her death.
Organised at the U Soso Tham Auditorium, the MTIFF 2016 celebrates her canonisation of Mother Teresa and will move to Jowai, the district headquarters of West Jaintia Hills on September 14 for another four-day spell.
Thousands of pilgrims thronged to St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for the canonization of Mother Teresa, the tiny nun who cared for the world’s most unwanted and became the icon of a Catholic Church that goes to the peripheries to tend to lost, wounded souls.
Lily remained a nurse with the Missionaries of Charity until leaving for Australia in 1969, following Phillip who had already left for Melbourne in 1966.
“And that memory of her in a sari with her Rosary beads and that smile, I’ll never forget”.
Sisters of Charity volunteers planned to distribute food to the poor nearby after the ceremony, and community meals were being served across Catholic parishes in India on Sunday – a symbolic reference to Mother Teresa’s lifetime of service to humanity, said the Rev. Savarimuthu Sankar of the archdiocese of New Delhi.
Mother Teresa was canonized 19 years after her death, remarkably fast for modern times. “We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful”, she explained. He beatified her in 2003 after a miracle, the healing of a tumor-stricken woman, was attributed to her intercession. Andrino came to Rome for the ceremony and was present at the Vatican news conference. “Maybe it was me this time, but maybe tomorrow it will be someone else”.
By renouncing all her possessions, Mother Teresa in God’s grace built “something handsome for God” – and now from heaven she still continues to light our way amid the darkness. There were homes for the terminally ill, so that they were not alone when they died.
Christopher Hitchens, Atheist writer, made a documentary about her called “Hell’s Angel”.
Her campaigns against birth control and abortion, which she once called “the greatest destroyer of peace today”, angered feminists and raised concerns with aid organizations.
Some doctors and officials in India have also challenged the narrative of Monica Besra, the woman said to have benefited from Mother Teresa’s first miraculous intervention, saying that Besra had been suffering from a cyst, not a tumor. She was born to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in what is now part of Macedonia, and was given the baptismal name of Agnes.
The day was marked with celebration and thanksgiving in many parts of the world.
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The canonization was broadcast live on the Vatican’s TV station and streamed online through a Vatican website. Chief Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said all 100,000 tickets that the Holy See made available had been distributed.
