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Saint Teresa: the true embodiment of mercy and compassion.
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Read More »This morning in Rome, Pope Francis was slated to provide the official recognition that the woman known worldwide as Mother Teresa is now Saint Teresa of Kolkata through the canonical and liturgical process known as canonization. Saint Teresa of Kolkata provides a compelling example, challenge and inspiration for living holiness and goodness to believers and nonbelievers alike. Although her slight, 5-foot, hunched-over frame seemed quite unimposing, Saint Teresa’s physical presence emphasized that human greatness springs forth from our spiritual nature. Born in present-day Skopje, Macedonia, on Aug. 26, 1910, as Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Agnes desired from her youth to be a missionary and so, at the age of 18, joined the religious order known as the Sisters of Loreto. With her first religious vows, Agnes took the name Teresa after Thérèse de Lisieux, patron saint of missionaries. The Sisters of Loreto, formally known as the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, demonstrate the charisma of teaching, so Sister Teresa traveled to India to teach. In 1946, a spiritual experience began a process that compelled her to leave the comfortable confines of teaching in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, to serve its poor. Describing it as a “the call within the call,” Sister Teresa sought and received permission to leave the convent to serve the poor, and by 1950, Mother Teresa had founded what would become the Missionaries of Charity with their iconic, simple white saris with three blue bands. What began as a community of 13 sisters has grown to number more than 4,500 sisters serving internationally in more than 133 countries. But the motivation and ministry of Saint Teresa of Kolkata derived not from public relations strategies or numerical calculations; the Gospel message of God’s love for us and her experience of Jesus Christ’s love propelled her forth to wherever the poorest of the poor were to be found. On Oct. 19, 2003, Pope John Paul II highlighted this at the Mass of her beatification in preaching: “ ‘As you did to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me’ (Matthew 25:40). This Gospel passage, so crucial in understanding Mother Teresa’s service to the poor, was the basis of her faith-filled conviction that in touching the broken bodies of the poor, she was touching the body of Christ. It was to Jesus himself, hidden under the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor, that her service was directed. “Mother Teresa highlights the deepest meaning of service — an act of love done to the hungry, thirsty, strangers, naked, sick, prisoners (compare Matthew 25: 34-36) is done to Jesus himself.” The Pope continued, “She wanted to be a sign of God’s love, God’s presence and God’s compassion, and so remind all of the value and dignity of each of God’s children, created to love and be loved. Thus was Mother Teresa bringing souls to God and God to souls and satiating Christ’s thirst, especially for those most in need, those whose vision of God had been dimmed by suffering and pain.” More than a life of doing good deeds, Saint Teresa emanated a deep love for the Lord Jesus. In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI explained this: “She herself said that her greatest prize was to love Jesus and serve him in the poor. Her diminutive figure, her hands joined in prayer or caressing the sick, a leper, the dying, a child, was the visible sign of an existence transformed by God.” This is what a saint is — one who knows he or she is loved, and loves in response selflessly.
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Read More »And this is sanctity. It is attractive, it is magnetic and it draws people in because this is the purpose for which human beings have been created. Consequently, Saint Teresa has shone a light on this internationally. In presenting her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee acknowledged that Saint Teresa believed “that the worst disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody. It was precisely people in this plight, the poorest of the poor, who were the very first to find warmth and shelter with Mother Teresa. Her intention was to ensure that they enjoyed the feeling of being received and recognized as people with their own human dignity and the right to respect.” President Ronald Reagan, in presenting her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985, praised her: “Some people, some very few people are, in the truest sense, citizens of the world; Mother Teresa is. ... Most of us talk about kindness and compassion, but Mother Teresa, the saint of the gutters, lives it.” From this perspective, Catholic journalist John Allen concludes “Saint Teresa of Calcutta will stand forever as a ‘how-to manual for mercy’ in flesh and blood, a sort of human user’s guide to what mercy looks like in practice. From here on out, Francis doesn’t have to offer any detailed explanation of what he wants people to do; all he has to do is point at Saint Teresa of Kolkata and say, “Try to be like her.” What a fitting way for Pope Francis to emphasize his Jubilee Year of Mercy! The Rev. Allan F. Wolfe is pastor of Saint Joseph and San Juan Bautista Catholic churches in Lancaster.
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