Mother Teresa 1910-1997.Mother Teresa, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of Charity, "Saint of the gutters" as she is sometimes called, died in her chosen city Calcutta at age 87 on September 5. Catholics around the world consider her a saint and expect the Church to act on that in the not too distant future. Seculars have more difficulty with Mother. The Marxists accused her of promoting the "drop in the bucket" attitude instead of joining the revolution in favour of structural reforms which, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. them, would abolish poverty once for all. Today, Mother's company feeds a million people each day, looks after 90,000 lepers, and has a small army of 4500 Sisters, 1000 Brothers and tens of thousands of volunteers in the field. Some drop in a bucket! Others dislike her for appealing for assistance from everybody, including potentates in countries whom they have declared to be persona non grata non gra·ta adj. Not welcome; not approved: The aide, having been declared non grata, was expelled from the country. [From persona non grata.] . Some seculars have no idea what Mother Teresa was all about. "No one may ever know what really drove her," says one Harry Sterling, a former diplomat and an Ottawa-based commentator in a feature column (Toronto Star The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. , Sept. 7). Let us explain it to Mr. Sterling. Mother Teresa practiced what is called the "imitation of Christ." She saw in every human being another Christ according to the Lord's own saying, "Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me." In order to pursue such a path she allowed the love of God to transform her whole personality so that she might the better love her neighbour through silence, prayer, faith, love, service and peace. She was not interested merely in helping the physically distressed to overcome their pains, but most of all in helping them to overcome sin, their own and other people's. Jesus did many miracles of physical healing, all in order to liberate (Liberate Technologies, San Mateo, CA) A software company that specialized in the information appliance field. Formerly Network Computer, Inc. (NCI), a spin-off from Oracle in 1996, it changed its name in 1999. people and the world from sin. He wanted metanoia Metanoia (from the Greek μετανοῖα, metanoia, changing one's mind, repentance) is a rhetorical device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way.[1] It is similar to correctio. , conversion, a change of heart that would lead to spiritual healing spiritual healing, n healing systems based on the principle of spirituality and its effect on well-being and recovery. . Like Christ, Mother Teresa was not "just" a social worker restricting herself to patching up physical disorders A physical disorder (as a medical term) is often used as a term in contrast to a mental disorder, in an attempt to differentiate medical disorders which have an available objective mechanical test (such as chemical tests or brain scans), from those disorders which have no . She desired to point the way to God by serving and loving the poorest of the poor through the grace of God. Editor |
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