HISTORY MAKER

 

(Mother Teresa born in Christ and died like Christ – Daniel) 

Life story of Missionary 

Love is the Root of missions; sacrifice is the Fruit of missions 

Mother Teresa (baptized August 27, 1910, Skopje, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire [now in Republic of 

North Macedonia]—died September 5, 1997, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India; canonized September 4, 

2016; feast day September 5) was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman 

Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the destitute of India. She was 

the recipient of numerous honors, including the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace. 

In 1946 Sister Teresa experienced her “call within a call,” which she considered divine inspiration to 

devote herself to caring for the sick and poor. She then moved into the slums she had observed while 

teaching. Municipal authorities, upon her petition, gave her a pilgrim hostel, near the sacred temple of 

Kali, where she founded her order in 1948. Sympathetic companions soon flocked to her aid. 

Dispensaries and outdoor schools were organized. Mother Teresa adopted Indian citizenship, and her 

Indian nuns all donned the sari as their habit. In 1950 her order received canonical sanction from Pope 

Pius XII, and in 1965 it became a pontifical congregation (subject only to the pope). In 1952 she 

established Nirmal Hriday (“Place for the Pure of Heart”), a hospice where the terminally ill could die 

with dignity. Her order also opened numerous centers serving the blind, the aged, and the disabled. 

Under Mother Teresa’s guidance, the Missionaries of Charity built a leper colony, called Shanti Nagar 

(“Town of Peace”), near Asansol, India. 

In her later years Mother Teresa spoke out against divorce, contraception, and abortion. She also 

suffered ill health and had a heart attack in 1989. In 1990 she resigned as head of the order but was 

returned to office by a nearly unanimous vote—the lone dissenting voice was her own. A worsening 

heart condition forced her retirement, and the order chose the Indian-born Sister Nirmala as her 

successor in 1997. At the time of Mother Teresa’s death, her order included hundreds of centers in 

more than 90 countries with some 4,000 nuns and hundreds of thousands of lay workers. Within two 

years of her death, the process to declare her a saint was begun, and Pope John Paul II issued a special dispensation to expedite the process of canonization. She was beatified on October 19, 2003, reaching the ranks of the blessed in what was then the shortest time in the history of the church. She was canonized by Pope Francis I on September 4, 2016.

Although Mother Teresa displayed cheerfulness and a deep commitment to God in her daily work, her 

letters (which were collected and published in 2007) indicate that she did not feel God’s presence in 

her soul during the last 50 years of her life. The letters reveal the suffering she endured and her 

feeling that Jesus had abandoned her at the start of her mission. Continuing to experience a spiritual 

darkness, she came to believe that she was sharing in Christ’s Passion, particularly the moment in 

which Christ asks, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Despite this hardship, Mother 

Teresa integrated the feeling of absence into her daily religious life and remained committed to her 

faith and her work for Christ. 

Note: - We can see in bible in Old Testament Daniel how God used him with one person the 

kingdoms have shaken and believed God  

God can turn world up and down he has that power  

It happens when that person is connected to gods vision and by obeying his voice in the same way 

mother Teressa also sacrificed her life and luxury living  

And main important thing in life is we have to deny ourself then only we can carry our own cross then 

gods power will be flown through our life wherever we go 

In same way mother Teressa also born in Christ and her lifestyle was fully like Christ character 

because of one person the whole world came to know Jesus Christ by through her good deeds. 

Points to learn from Mother Terresa Testimony 

1.Obeying Gods call 

2.Aligined with god’s vision 

3. Sacrificial life 

4.Heart of Jesus (filled with full of God’s love) 

5.Reaching to the lost      

6.Thinking all peoples are my family members 

7.True religion teaches about true relationships to take caring of peoples 

8.Facing difficulties and persecution but not leaving gods given task 

9.Making many Christ followers to do the same god given task after her death 

10.Died as faithful servant as gods will in her life.