Mother Teresa : Angel of
Mercy
Universal prayer :
Father of all
In all clime adored
By saint, by savage and by sage
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
Aleaxander Pope
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on
August 27, 1910. At a mere ge of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God.
She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ and left
home at eighteen to serve the Almighty and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an
Irish community of nuns with missions in India. She dedicated every day of
her adult life caring for "The dying, the cripple, the mentally ill,
the unwanted, the unloved" and she loved every minute of it because she
was loving, she was cleaning, feeding "Jesus in disguise".
Selfless Service
From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in
Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent
walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received
permission to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among
the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.
Without any funds she started an open-air school for slum children. Soon
she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also
forthcoming.
