Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresaalso known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. After having lived in Macedonia for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life...
NationalityAlbanian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth26 August 1910
CitySkopje, Macedonia
CountryAlbania
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.
Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.
Give people not only your care, but also your heart.
I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.
Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.
The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt -- any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one
We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.
Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist.
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled
Small things done with great love will change the world.