brief biography mother theresa calcutta
... find on the streets of Calcutta. There was an important reason why Mother Teresa left the nunnery/convent. While she was living at the convent school, she often glanced 2 out the window only to see poverty and sickness among many men, women, and children (Joly, 1997). These people made a very important impact on her life. This was when she began to feel useless indoors (Hitchens, 1995). Mother Teresa eventually asked if she could be removed from the convent in order to help the sick. She was granted permission to do so because of her will and desire to help the poor and underprivileged. Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity was an amazing institution. The institution formed schools for the poorest children of the slums and dispensaries. Sunday schools were formed to teach these children prayer, and even craft schools which would help teach the poor how to earn a living (Muggeridge, 1971). The first big project that the Missionaries of Charity worked on was the Kalighat Home of the Dying. The search for a place to house the poor and dying had long been spoken about, but Mother Teresa was able to make it a reality. Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity was such a success (emphazing on the Kalighat Home of the Dying) that she opened another house in Venezuela (Joly, 1997). This institution soon spread into a global organization. Mother Teresa opened houses in nearly all of the communist countries, including Albania and Cuba (Hitchens, 1995). These houses also took care of more than just the starving/homeless individuals; they also took care of alcoholics and people who have HIV. After Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity began to spread across the world, she began to send her “Servants of Love” (sisters) to other parts of India in order to help the poor in different regions as opposed to just one specific area (Joly, 1997). Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity certainly were not limited to only those individuals of a specific religion. Mother Teresa eventually formed an organization entitled the Sick and 3 Suffering Co-Workers of Mother Teresa (Muggeridge, 1971). This institution accepted all different types of religions and nationalities (Muggeridge, 1971). Her goal was to share her method of prayer, her beliefs, and her works of love. She wanted to teach others how to love one another equally (Joly, 1997). She explained to these individuals that when she chose to sacrifice her life towards the poor and the unhealthy, it was a meaningful personal sacrifice toward God. She feels as though sacrificing her life led her to have a closer relationship with God. On October 19th, 2003, six years after her death, Pope John Paul the second made it official that Mother Teresa was one step from sainthood in the Catholic religious faith. After Pope John Paul the second beatified Mother Teresa, she became known as “The Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta” (Hitchens, 1995). In short, beatification is simply an act which explains an individual’s saintliness in the Catholic religion. In to...