Mother Teresa
What did she do?
Why inspirational?
Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to serve the poor and destitutes around the world.
Did hard work with great love
Founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, which was a charity with many womans who were hoping to help the poor.
Teach in India for 17 years
Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged and disabled; and a leper colony
Won Nobel Peace Prize in 1979
Young Life
Father's Death at age of 8
Became very close to her mother after that, who taught her to have a deep commitment to charity and told her to share her things to others.
My child, never eat a single mouthful unless you are sharing it with others, Some of them are our relations, but all of them are our people.
--- Mother Teresa's Mother
Determined: “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
—Mother Teresa
Call within a call: She was riding in a train from Calcutta to the Himalayan foothills for a retreat when she said Christ spoke to her and told her to abandon teaching to work in the slums of Calcutta aiding the city's poorest and sickest people. Then, one year later, she went to Calcutta to help the "Unwanted, unloved, uncared for."
Canonized as a Saint
Caring for people living in agony
Repect: Respect Life
Empethetic: heard the cry of people and it called to her heart.
She didn't feel God's presence in her last 50 years of life. Some of her letters even shows that she thinks that Jesus has abandoned her as the beginning
Quotes
“Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service .”
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”