All that is required is for you to get out there and just do it. Connect with Roshan on Facebook for more insights into business, personal development, and leadership. About Us Enquiries. Jobseekers Sign-up! Jobseekers Login. A saint who is nothing more than a sinner who refused to give up shows us that holiness is possible in this hot mess of a world we live in.
Every saint is holy in their own way, reflecting an aspect of God that is eternally unique. As the world awaits the canonization of Mother Teresa this Sunday, we reflect on her legacy.
She founded an order of nuns from whom she demanded much, all based on a heart for serving the poor. That being said, there were and are many who volunteer with the Missionaries of Charity around the world. Missionaries of Charity has vastly expanded since Mother Teresa's death, and now has centres in countries staffed by more than 5, nuns.
Yet the order remains opaque, declining to publish its funding sources or accounts, a stance which has elicited suspicion over its management of allegedly vast sums. The order, however, roundly rejects its detractors. Sunita Kumar, a spokeswoman for Missionaries, refuted all the allegations as "rubbish".
Why should we expose our own accounts to others? Mother Teresa's focus was not to build five-star hospitals, it was to provide for the poor," she said. While she remains a polarising figure, the nuns carrying on her life's work in Kolkata believe the flow of donations and volunteers is proof of higher assent.
For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. After six months of basic medical training, she voyaged for the first time into Calcutta's slums with no more specific a goal than to aid "the unwanted, the unloved, the uncared for.
Mother Teresa quickly translated her calling into concrete actions to help the city's poor. She began an open-air school and established a home for the dying destitute in a dilapidated building she convinced the city government to donate to her cause.
In October , she won canonical recognition for a new congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, which she founded with only a handful of members—most of them former teachers or pupils from St.
Mary's School. As the ranks of her congregation swelled and donations poured in from around India and across the globe, the scope of Mother Teresa's charitable activities expanded exponentially. Over the course of the s and s, she established a leper colony, an orphanage, a nursing home, a family clinic and a string of mobile health clinics. In , Mother Teresa traveled to New York City to open her first American-based house of charity, and in the summer of , she secretly went to Beirut, Lebanon, where she crossed between Christian East Beirut and Muslim West Beirut to aid children of both faiths.
By the time of her death in , the Missionaries of Charity numbered more than 4, — in addition to thousands more lay volunteers — with foundations in countries around the world. The Decree of Praise was just the beginning, as Mother Teresa received various honors for her tireless and effective charity. In , Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work "in bringing help to suffering humanity.
Despite this widespread praise, Mother Teresa's life and work have not gone without its controversies. In particular, she has drawn criticism for her vocal endorsement of some of the Catholic Church's more controversial doctrines, such as opposition to contraception and abortion. In , she publicly advocated a "no" vote in the Irish referendum to end the country's constitutional ban on divorce and remarriage. The most scathing criticism of Mother Teresa can be found in Christopher Hitchens' book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice , in which Hitchens argued that Mother Teresa glorified poverty for her own ends and provided a justification for the preservation of institutions and beliefs that sustained widespread poverty.
After several years of deteriorating health, including heart, lung and kidney problems, Mother Teresa died on September 5, , at the age of In , the Vatican recognized a miracle involving an Indian woman named Monica Besra, who said she was cured of an abdominal tumor through Mother Teresa's intercession on the one-year anniversary of her death in On December 17, , Pope Francis issued a decree that recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for her to be canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
The second miracle involved the healing of Marcilio Andrino, a Brazilian man who was diagnosed with a viral brain infection and lapsed into a coma.
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