Mother teresa became a nun in 1928, For twenty years she taught geography and later was principal of a Catholic junior high school in Calcuta, India. One day, while she was traveling on a crowded train, she heard a strange voice from her own inner feelings , a “ call from some where else”- as she admitted later – that inveted her to do something for the poor and the sick.
She wasted no time, and on September 10, 1946, she sent a request to Rome for permission to Live outside her convent and work in the poorest area of Calcutta. The Pope approved of iner idea. In 1950 she set up an institution called the Missionaries of Charity with a single intention: to help the poor, the sick and the dying of the crowded city of Calcutta.
Since then, The missionaries have becoming busier and busier. Mother Teresa and Her sisters look after schools, clinics and hospitals. They care for unwanted babies who are handed to them by midwives or negcleted by pick up people dying in the streets and take them to a former Hindu Temple where They can at least, according to her own words, die within sight of a loving face. Many, in fact, have survived and been nursed back to health.
This is her own story, which she once told a journalist;
“ The first woman I saw I picked up myself from street. She had been half-eaten by rats and ants. I took her to the hospital but they could not do anything for her. They only took her in because I refused to go until they accepted her. From there I went to the municipality authorities and asked them to give me a place where I could bring these people, because the same day I had found othe people dying in the streets. The health officer of municipality took me the old temple…… it was an empty building. He asked me if I would accept it.It was very happy to have that place for many reasons, but especially because it was centre of worship for the Hindus. Within twenty-four hours we had our patients there and we started the work of the home we had our patients there and we started the work of home for the sick and for those who are dying just from poverty. Since then we have picked up more than 24,000 people from the streets of Calcutta.
About the children she has picked up, she told the reporter;
“ Some we get from hospitals, They have been left there by their poor parents. Some children we bring from the jails, some are brought to us by the police. No Matter how they are brought to us, we have never refused a child.”
For her funds Mother Teresa depends much upon money given by donors. She doesn’t hesitate to beg for aid herself from whatever source she can get it. She persuaded many high-caste Indian ladies to help her in her work.
“An Australian came here some time ago,” she said, :and he said that he wanted to give a big donation. But after giving the donation, the stranger said, That is something out-side of me, but now I wan to give something out of myself.” And after that time he came regularly to the Home for the Dying, to shave the people and talk to them.”
Since Mother Teresa began devoting her own life completely to others, there has been, she admitted, rapid progress in the field of medicine of which she and her helpers have been able to take advantage. Lepers, for instance, can now be cured, But she is aware of one technological progress can ever fill.
“being unwanted,” she said. “is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience, unless there are willing hands to serve and a loving heart to love, I don’t think this terrible disease can ever be cured.”
GEOGLOBE
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Love of Mother Teresa-1
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