On the 19th anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death, September 5 – her feast day – the cardinal presided over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square to give thanks for the canonization of the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
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AS Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint 19 years after her death, a tiny school community halfway across the world rejoiced. And two years after the canonization of John Paul II, he said he found it surprisingly easy to refer to the late pope as a saint.
For Francis, Mother Teresa put into action his ideal of the church as a merciful “field hospital” for the poorest of the poor, those suffering both material and spiritual poverty.
She spoke to a crowd of more than 15,000 during the summer of 1995 at the old Charlotte Coliseum. So that you ask people who are writing take the trouble.
Mother Teresa died this day, nineteen years ago.
At the end of the Mass, the MC nuns showed three relics of the saint which have been in the chapel of their home since Mother Teresa’s beatification in 2003.
Her sanctity has inspired and encouraged so many through her example of serving the poorest of the poor.
“She’s Mother Teresa”, Joanna Jaworowski said.
Mother Teresa has long since become a worldwide symbol of charity and in 1979 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
“She moved the hearts of millions of people everywhere in the world to not only think about the poor but also to help use resources to help feed them, clothe them”, Schaefer said.
Remarkable could also describe Saint Teresa’s life.
About 120,000 people at the Vatican stood watch Sunday as Pope Francis canonized the now saint Teresa of Kolkata.
She tweeted: “I am honoured to have been invited as an ambassador to Kosovo, to sing at the canonization of Mother Theresa”.
Before declaring the person as saint, The Vatican made a decision to do an official process, which includes an investigation. For this Teresa was bitterly criticised but she was not perturbed.
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The staunchly pro-life nun was not a stranger to controversy during her lifetime, when some criticized her for poor conditions at the clinics she ran in spite of millions in donations.
