Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa before thousands at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City Sunday morning. “One is Mother Teresa, I met her just after my ordination to the priesthood in 1994”. In that way, while the canonization of “St. Teresa of Kolkata” was a celebration of her life and work, it was also something of an affirmation of Francis’ own papal priorities, which have earned him praise and criticism alike.
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“I rejoice the canonisation of Mother Teresa”, Ansari said.
Baltimore’s City Hall is being lit up in blue Sunday night, as ordered by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, in honor of Pope Francis’ naming Mother Teresa as a Saint. The first one, ratified in 2002, was of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, who says she recovered from ovarian cancer a year after Teresa’s death.
“She made her voice heard before the powers of the world, so that they might recognise their guilt for the crimes of poverty they themselves created”.
An important road in Bhubaneswar that links Satya Nagar and Cuttack-Puri highway was yesterday named by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as the “Saint Mother Teresa Road”.
The pizzas were served by 250 of Mother Teresa’s sisters along with some 50 brothers of the male branch of the Missionaries, and other volunteers who offered their services for the occasion.
Mother Teresa came to Ipswich on October 30, 1970 to visit St Mark’s Roman Catholic Primary School in Stone Lodge Lane and St Margaret’s Church of England School in Bolton Lane.
According to correspondence that came to light after she died in 1997, Teresa experienced what the church calls a “dark night of the soul” ” a period of spiritual doubt, despair and loneliness that numerous great mystics experienced.
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United Nations has been observing September 5 every year as the International Day of Charity to commemorate the anniversary of the passing away of Teresa who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 “for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitute a threat to peace”. “It is with very tender feelings that I remember her blessings to me”.
