The Life of Mother Teresa

Nursing care was unscientific and consisted of assisting patients with usual body functions; and was typically administered by women of a religious order or by women who by nature of their lifestyle frequented hospitals. Hospital care was for the poor and destitute; since home based medical care was better than risking additional infections in the dirty, crowded, and disease-ridden hospitals. During the typhus epidemic of 1852, hospital staff and patients suffered the greatest morbidity and mortality. (Ranade , 199817-19)

She told her audience this story to get them to see a side of people that they didn’t necessarily know about. They got to see how this woman was poor and yet she still died smiling and thankful for what life had given her. Mother Teresa wanted the audience to see how much a small gesture really meant to someone because small gestures can create peace. Her personal experiences are meant to have an emotional connection with her audience which results in the audience feeling more included to make changes in their life that would bring more peace to the world. Mother Teressa wants this story to evoke sympathy throughout her audience because this poor woman may have had struggles in her life, but what matters most was her gratitude.

She met Lucille Perry, who influenced her to join the Public Health Service, thus, resulted to research and studies were the main focus. While doing public service, she was teaching at Yale University wherein she was required to teach a class called “120 Principles of Nursing Practice”, that according to her does not have any scientific

St. Agnes of Rome was born in 291 in Rome, Italy. She was raised in a wealthy Christian family and was remarkably beautiful. Agnes also loved God very much and was very devoted to him.

She got permission from the church to found the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, and kept working to better the world through this organization. It was created to have Catholic women dedicate themselves and their lives to the less fortunate in the world, and work to make their lives better through their actions and hard work. Mother Teresa organized this whole group, which still works today with massive numbers behind it, so her impact on society is still not over; she is still touching peoples’ lives because of her love of God and her desire to make a difference in all the lives that she ever came in contact

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.

Adding to the confusion about her religion was the fact that each side of her family expressed and acted out their religion

Because of that poverty she would have felt very sad and helpless, but she wanted to help others more. She donated all her money that she had to the poor.

She traveled the world on behalf of children in need. Her passion for helping needy children stemmed from her understanding of hardships children face, especially hunger. Asia, Africa, Central and South America were all places lucky enough to have such an amazing woman visit, and spread her kindness throughout. Her most admiring trait, is her passion for volunteer work and the wisdom it created, “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” She knew that a balance existed between helping yourself and also helping others. Fame and fortune doesn’t always mean you’re selfish, which it what I always thought before I was introduced to

Mother Teresa quickly translated this somewhat vague calling into concrete actions to help the city's poor because her heart was open to them when no one elses was. 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 which was a very big risk for them because some people would have might not wanted to donate to her because of her religious figure. By 1979 Mother Teresa's groups had more than two hundred different operations in over twenty-five countries around the world, with dozens more ventures on the horizon by her faith and love of God that allowed her to have these many

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was so humble and gracious to everyone around her. She took her calling to be a nun into action by opening many houses to those in need. She provided her service to the poor and disaster-stricken by providing essential needs such as food, water, clothes, and most important, love. All her work was rewarded, however, when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was canonized as a saint just as of last year. Mother Teresa was a dedicated and benevolent person towards her community and the world, making her a hero to many.

Mother Teresa has won it all, from the hearts of even the non-Christians to the Nobel Peace Prize, and posthumously, a prestige that most of us nor wish nor dream of, one which elevated her above us all: sainthood. In Mother Teresa’s canonization, she is immortalized by Pope Francis as an icon of love and compassion, highlighting her commitment to saving lives, claiming her “a generous dispenser of divine mercy,” and her whole life “an eloquent witness to God’s closeness to the poorest of the poor” (Francis). In this essay, I hope to, knowing well that I am going against the idols of hundreds of millions, show you that everything said by the Pope is very far from the truth, and that there is perhaps no better example of undeserved glorification and false idolization than the wicked old lady, Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

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.

Mother Teresa grew up involved in charity and neighborly love. Mother Teresa was born Ganxhe Agnes Bojaxhiu in 1910 in