The Contributions Of Mother Teresa's Life Of Mother Teresa

When she returned to America she needed to support her children so she opened a girl’s school in Boston, and made religion a part of the school. After a few years the archbishop asked Elizabeth to open a girls’ school in Emmitsburg, Maryland. This is when she decided to become a nun (1809). She didn’t go along, 2 of her daughters and sister-in-law came with here to start the school and they became the American Sisters of Charity and in 1810 Elizabeth become Mother Seton.

At age 12, she felt a strong calling to lead a religious life. She decided that she would become a nun and a missionary(Mother Teresa Biography). At age 18, she joined the Sisters of Loretto in Ireland, where she picked the name Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Mother Teresa of Calcutta). She sailed to India just six weeks later to become a teacher(Blessed Mother Teresa). For 17 years she taught at the school before she experienced her “call within a call”. While riding a train to a retreat, Christ spoke to her. According to Mother Teresa biography, Christ said, "I want Indian Nuns, Missionaries of Charity, who would be my fire of love amongst the poor, the sick, the dying and the little children. "You are I know the most incapable person—weak and sinful but just because you are that—I want to use You for My glory. Wilt thou refuse?". Mother Teresa could not leave her vows without official permission, and it took about a year and a half until she was free to visit the slums of Calcutta(Mother Teresa

It was September the 10th, 1964 and World war 2 had only just come to a conclusion. Mother Teresa sat on a piping hot train, on a hot summers day in Calcutta. She tried taking up as little space as possible to avoid being crowded which she was to a great extent and deeply swelter. She was on a train from Calcutta to the Himalayan foothills for a retreat. On this train ride Christ spoke to Mother Teresa. She referred to this as 'her second calling' and in her words it was 'a vocation to give up, even at Loreto where I was very happy, to go out into the streets to serve'. "I want Indian Nuns, Missionaries of Charity, who would be my fire of love amongst the poor, the sick, the dying and the little children," she heard Christ say to her on the train in those very words. "You are I know the most incapable person - weak and sinful but just because you are that'- I want to use you for my glory. Wilt thou refuse?". A sensation of happiness rushed through her, even though she had been called weak she was honoured. She was very quick to share her vision with her supporters, friends and members of the Loreto sisters that she worked with. She was questioned about her call, and all the intentions and aims she had for doing it.

She was born into a poor but holy family and was a servant from the age 12 to a rich family who lived in Lucca, Italy. She found time everyday to attend mass and recite her prayers. Then the people who gave her jobs were upset of the gifts of food she gave to the poor, then after a while they were won over by her kindness and became friends with her. Her employers then gave her free rein over her schedule as being a servant so she used that time to visit those who were sick and in prison.

Loreto at the age of 18 to become a missionary to India. Mother Teresa started to be heard and

Mother Teresa believes “we think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty” (Teresa). Many people do not know what poverty and homelessness actually mean, or what it feels like. Personal beliefs mislead humanity into believing something that possibly is erroneous. People are under the impression that the homeless are the worst people, but in reality they are much more behind their sad faces.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. ~Saint Mother Teresa. Saint Teresa of Calcutta is trying to make known that there are many different kinds of poverty. Many people, when they think about poverty, think about the naked, or the hungry. Poverty is a much larger problem that impacts many more people of all ages. The poverty of not being loved, not being wanted, creates many more problems, that include domestic abuse, homelessness, and helplessness. Poverty in all its forms, existed in the Victorian Era and continues today.

Following the death of her mother, Saint Teresa began to deviate from the church. In her teenage years, her primary focuses were romance novels, boys, and rebellion. Because of this, her strict father sent her to live with the Augustinian nuns of her province at the age of sixteen where the Sisters helped her to return to her religious faith. In her window, Saint Teresa holds a book and a pen, symbolic of the reforms she made to the Carmelite order, as well as her great writings. In the predella, women are pictured entering Sharon, the home in England for Sisters of the Holy Child

This lead her to follow God’s will, and become a teacher at St Mary’s school, and later become the principle of this school. At the school Mother Teresa, taught history, english and a couple of other subjects to teach the children at the schools. She loved the kids as if they were her own, and equally. Mother Teresa’s second calling was the call to care for the people in the slums of Calcutta, but to do so she needed permission from her superiors, as at this stage Mother Teresa was the principle at St Mary’s. In the following year, Mother Teresa began her work which obeyed God’s call fro her to look after the poor, sick and dying in the streets. Through many difficulties, Mother Teresa obeyed and followed the work which God led her to do, her lives work, and influenced her into making these decisions. The vow of obedience, influence Mother Teresa greatly, in following orders from superiors, and God himself. As said by Mother Teresa, “…by faith, I am catholic. As to my calling, I belong to the world…”, her calling brought her closer to the world, and the calling itself influenced the work which Mother Teresa is known of doing.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta who lived from 1910 until 1997 received permission from the Pope to start her own religious community in order to work amongst the poorest of the poor. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, which is a Roman Catholic religious congregation. She taught Catholic Church doctrine on abortion, contraception, euthanasia, and social justice. She founded modest hospitals, clinics, schools, and centers to care for lepers in India and AIDS patients in the United States. Mother Teresa helped develop hospices and homes for people with tuberculosis. She started soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, counseling programs and orphanages for those with needs and no means to pay for these services. "She addressed the United Nations, the U.S. Congress, and the President of the United States, and boldly defended the life of the unborn and promoted adoption and Natural Family Planning as the only moral alternatives to abortion." (Trigilio and Brighenti 2003, 310) By 1996, Mother Teresa was operating 517 missions in more than 100 countries. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity grew from twelve to thousands serving the poor in 450 countries around the world. In 2012, the Missionaries of Charity had over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133

Beatified Teresa in 1614 by Paul V, and included among the saints by Gregory XV on March 12, 1622, was appointed (1627) to patron of Spain by Urban VIII. In 1626 the Cortes of Castile named it copatrona of the Kingdoms of Spain, but the partisans of Santiago Apostle managed to revoke the agreement. She was named Doctor honoris causa by the University of Salamanca and later was appointed patroness of the writers.

In part one, Maria Teresa is portrayed as pretty and an idolizer. Mate is portrayed as pretty when Dede remembers when her family would spend time together. Papa would "foresee" the girls future. When Maria Teresa asked Papa about her future, he said, " You, mi napita, you'll be our little coquette. You'll make a lot of men's mouths water."(9) Maria Teresa is going to have a lot of boys after her when she grows up because she has a good appearance and always maintain herself as a lady. Mate is also portrayed as an idolizer. The same night Mate was "shown" her future by Papa, she talks about her dreams of becoming a lawyer, just like Minerva. It says "… for, of course, Maria Teresa is parroting her adored big sister's plans."(10) Mate shows

St. Teresa was born at Avila, Castile, Spain, on march 28, 1515. At an early age, she was very attracted to the religious life. in 1536, she joined a Carmelite convent in Avila. not long after

Mother Teresa gave up everything to live a simple life to serve those who need more than she did. Along with looking after others, mothers are the willing to do things for others just to see them happy. Mothers say yes to lots of things they don’t have to just to make others happy. Mother Teresa realized this when God

She began by starting an open-air school for the children of Calcutta. She did not have any funding for her school, but that did not stop Mother Teresa. After a couple years many people started volunteering and helped fund the school.