Eight years ago, a parish in Mahanoy City formed, and it was named after Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
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Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity, will be canonized as a saint on September 3.
The parish will formally celebrate the canonization of its patron, St. Teresa, through a Mass celebrated on September 11 by Bishop John McIntyre and with Father Shaun Mahoney, who worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, as the homilist.
Mother Teresa Catholic College in Baldivis is the only school in WA bearing the Catholic nun’s name.
Principal Geri O’Keefe said the students planned to celebrate Mother Teresa’s canonisation on Monday on the anniversary of her death in 1997 at the age of 87.
A procession of young and old will be taken out to the church and will culminate in a special Mass to be celebrated by Archbishop Felix Machado to herald the new Saint that evening.
In mother Teresa’s case, two individuals claim that they were healed of tumors after praying to her.
“When I met her, I didn’t have any doubt that she was already a living saint”, he said.
“One of the things [Francis has] reinforced for women is the idea that we don’t need to be clericalized, we don’t need to be ordained to have a huge impact, in order to exercise spiritual greatness”, Hassan said.
Famed atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who was invited to be part of the investigation regarding her suitability for sainthood, wrote an essay during the beginning steps of her canonization process in 2003 that called Mother Teresa “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud” for her approach to the care of the poor.
The canonisation of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is an occasion of great joy to the Church throughout the world, but especially to the Church in India, it is stated in the circular adding that this historic event, which is fittingly taking place in the Jubilee Year of Mercy, drives home to us the eternal message of Jesus, our Master, that caring for the neglected and the forgotten is the noblest of services; it places before us the challenge to “go and do likewise” to the abandoned and the lonely in our homes and neighbourhoods. Rodgers she would be willing to come back to Philadelphia at a future date should he ask.
What followed was “a very typical Mother Teresa talk” focusing on the poor, service, love and the importance of overlooking nobody. “This is not going to happen for Mother Teresa”.
Blessed Teresa continued to answer questions, and Sister Kathleen got the sense that she would have answered all night. “We are still doing what she called us to do, to serve”, she said. “She was not a friend of the poor”, he wrote. I told her that and when she touched me I felt a complete relief. She also narrated how once a beggar had lovingly contributed money for her work.
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“She transformed my life”. During his seminary years at St. Charles he volunteered from 1994 to 1996 at a summer camp conducted by the Missionaries of Charity in the South Bronx, where she would visit and also he would see her during her Philadelphia visits. “I always did this. Now I don’t worry about her, I do it for her sisters”. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean”.
