Mother Teresa is the treasure of the world

If you ask who in the destructive XX century was a symbol of mercy, most people without hesitation will answer: "Mother Teresa." This small, wrinkled, smiling old lady with the overworked, disproportionately large palms for many children, beggars, old people, mortally sick people became a real mother. She, by her example, was able to show that love is not an experience or an explosion of emotions. It is a verb, an action, an everyday work, a renunciation of oneself.

She carried the light of Divine Jesus' love without words and instructions, but only an example of her life, a beneficial action and the fullness of the Divine presence in her heart.

Mother Teresa: Biography

This amazing woman was born in the Albanian city of Skopje at the end of the summer of 1910. The family of a small Agnes Gonja Boyadzhiu (this was the name of the future mother Teresa) was very wealthy. Agnes grew up as an obedient, attentive, musical and creative girl. Even then she dreamed of serving people: working as a teacher or traveling as a missionary to Africa, or bringing light through writing poems and stories.

Mother accustomed Agnes and the rest of her children to compassion and compassion, often repeating that there are many adults and children around who have nothing to eat, nothing to wear, no place to live. The whole family together visited the sick, donated food and clothes to the poor, and gave money for treatment. Prayer and work were the main values in the Boyagiu family.

To her twelve years, Agnes was sure that she should devote herself to serving God. However, life in the four walls of the monastery and the care of only the salvation of her soul seemed to her to be selfishness. Therefore, at the age of eighteen she joined the Order of the Loretta Sisters, studied English, and soon sailed to Calcutta, in order to show deeds of Divine love and mercy to people.

Biographers like to quote the correspondence of Mother Teresa with her brother, in which she says that the brother officer serves the king, who has two million subjects - and this is a significant work. And she is at the service of the King of the whole world.

It was in India that a young nun started to work - in a country with incredible poverty and ruthless poverty. Calcutta in the 30 years of the last century was a terrible sight for Europeans. Poisonous snakes, miserable huts side by side with luxurious palaces, mountains of garbage in which hundreds of thousands of people were born, died and died.

And in this environment, Mother Teresa spent almost sixteen years teaching girls geography and history, organizing schools for street children.

In 1948, she received permission from the Vatican to become a free nun-missionary and leave her order. The young woman changed her dress to a cheap white sari with a blue strip on the edge and followed the Lord's call, to serve Him in the poorest areas of Calcutta.

In the monastery, she did not feel any need - there was always food, shelter and overnight. And now the life of the nun radically changed - she had to sleep on the floor in the slums, to eat what she had to eat. But in every poor, sick, dying person she saw and loved Jesus.

Mother Teresa completely surrendered to the power of the Will of God, translating the words of Scripture into practice . Her voluntary mission was the most sad and terrible of all possible - helping the dying people so that they could go to another world with dignity and joy.

So, the nun founded the House for the dying poor, in which all sick and afflicted people were accepted, which even loved ones refused. Combined with rats and ants, covered with ulcers and scabs, ugly and little resembling intelligent beings - they all found affectionate words, care and love.

This little woman looked after the poor in the last hours of their earthly life so that they could "die beautifully like angels."

Each new day Mother Teresa began with a long prayer to clean her soul of anger and self-love before, and then with joy and blessing to go out to the ministry to people.

At first, only twelve sisters helped her, but gradually the movement expanded all over the world. More than three hundred thousand employees in eighty countries now brought help and light of love to orphanages, leprosariums, clinics for AIDS patients. Such a huge work could not be ignored, and in 1979 a modest poor nun from Calcutta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It is significant that the funds that were traditionally spent on the banquet, Mother Teresa asked to convey "to her people" - so she called the sufferers for whose sake she worked.

She continued her ministry in different hot spots: South Africa, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Beirut, Spitak, Chernobyl. She always and under all circumstances behaved without fear of dangers, did not bow before the powers that be, but acted as a true God's man. So she felt herself - with a pencil in the hands of God, who wrote a letter of love to the whole world.

Often, Mother Teresa was reproached for simply patching holes, that the cause of poverty and misery remains, and her actions drown in the ocean of world problems. She answered that the Lord did not call upon her to be successful, but called for being faithful. So she sincerely fulfilled the words of the Scripture about the need to take care of "about these little ones" - suffering and needy, expressing with each of their actions a love for Jesus.

She was not afraid of death at all, because it's just a return home, where her beloved Lord and many people with whom she said goodbye are waiting. At the same time, Mother Teresa loved earthly life and believed that every day is a holiday. Her famous statement about life can now be found everywhere - from the restaurant menu to the walls of AIDS centers.

Mother Theresa passed into eternal life in September 1997, when she was 87 years old. In India, a nationwide mourning was declared, and accompanying his beloved nun in the last way came out more than a half million people.

She did not seek reverence and glory, but the sincere love that was so generously flowing from her heart ignited millions of people in response to love and hope. This small, wrinkled old nun has been able to remind the world with her whole life that Christian charity is not a surplus of wealth or money donations. This is the creation of the good by the forces of one's own soul and one's own life.

Mother Teresa: statements

"We must take a step towards each other to share the joy of love. But we can not give what we do not have. That's why you need to pray. And then prayer will give us a pure medium. "

"Do you want to interview me? It is better to talk to God. "

"Who is Jesus for me? This is the Word that should be spoken. This is Light, Peace, Love ... It's hungry, which must be fed .. Homeless. Alone. Sick! Unwanted! Cripple! Blind! Prisoner! ... I love Jesus with all my heart, with all my being. I gave him everything, even my sins ... "

"It's already gone yesterday. And Tomorrow has not come yet. We have only Today. So let's get started! "