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Mother Teresa "Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart" . . . Mother Teresa Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India She served with the Sisters as a teacher for 20 years.

At the age of 38, while traveling by train in India, she had a striking realization that her life's mission was to minister to the poorest of the poor. With the Pope's blessing, Mother Teresa descended into the slums of Calcutta, undoubtedly one of the poorest cities on the planet, and began the Sisters of Charity. Under her direction, the Sisters of Charity ministered to the sick and hungry of Calcutta, Showering love and food on all who came to the mission's doorstep.

Today The Missionaries of Charity feeds 500,000 families a year in Calcutta alone, treats 90,000 leprosy patients annually and educates 20,000 children every year. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers.

In 1979, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and her position as the world's greatest champion of the downtrodden was firmly established. Her death in 1997 was mourned worldwide. Less than two years after her death, Pope John Paul II permitted the opening of her Cause of Canonization, on 20 December 2002 he approved the decrees of her heroic virtues and miracles.

Mother Teresa will always remain Mother for those who knew her, hence many people will call her "Blessed Mother Teresa," but officially she will be known as "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta" and later, God willing, as "Saint Teresa of Calcutta." (Press Release Of The Postulator Of The Cause Of Beatification And Canonization Of Mother Teresa)

Mother Teresa Speaks about Abortion:

"I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion."

St. Brigid, St. Monica, and St. Teresa homes provide safe, comfortable, residence for single, pregnant teens and teen mothers with children, as an alternative to abortion.

 

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