Who is Blessed Mother Teresa Of Calcutta

In 1952 the first Home for the Dying was opened in space made available by the City of Calcutta. Over the years, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity grew from 12 to thousands serving the "poorest of the poor" in 450 centers around the world. Mother Teresa created many homes for the dying and the unwanted from Calcutta to New York to Albania. She was one of the pioneers of establishing homes for AIDS victims. For more than 45 years, Mother Teresa comforted the poor, the dying, and the unwanted around the world. 

In 1966, the Missionaries of Charity Brothers was founded. Homes began to open in Rome, Tanzania, and Australia. In 1971, the first home in the United States was established in the South Bronx, New York.  

Mother Teresa gained worldwide acclaim with her tireless efforts on behalf of world peace. Her work brought her numerous humanitarian awards, including : the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. In receiving this award, Mother Teresa revolutionized the award ceremony. She insisted on a departure from the ceremonial banquet and asked that the funds, $6,000 be donated to the poor in Calcutta. This money would permit her to feed hundreds for a year.  

She is stated to have said that earthly rewards were important only if they helped her help the world's needy.  

Beginning in 1980, homes began to spring-up for drug addicts, battered women, and more orphanages and schools for poor children around the world. In 1985, Mother Teresa established the first hospice for AIDS victims in New York. Mother Teresa was awarded Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award. By 1991, there were 168 homes established in India.On February 3, 1994 at a National Prayer Breakfast, sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, in Washington, DC, Mother Teresa challenged the audience on such topics as family life and abortion. She said, "Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Give the child to me."  

Mother Teresa traveled to help the hungry in Ethiopia, radiation victims at Chernobyl, and earthquake victims in Armenia. Her zeal and works of mercy knew no boundaries.In November of 1996, Mother Teresa received the honorary U.S. citizenship.She said "A clean heart is a free heart". A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.There is a terrible hunger for love in this world. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family.Find them and love them. Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Give yourself completely to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe more in His love than in your own weakness. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't just give your care, but give your heart as well. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is a joyful freedom. There is no television here, but we are perfectly happy. I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus,"Love one another as I have loved you". Ask yourself ,how has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace. One of the secret stars says Mother Teresa once refused to go to an Anti-War rally, saying "When you have a Pro Peace rally I'll come!"