Question

At the age of 18, Mother Teresa was convinced that her life's vocation lay in her becoming a
missionary in far-off India, Skopje, where she was born on August 26, 1910, was so far removed from
Bengal that, barring a few Yugoslav Jesuits who fired her young imagination, no one in the small
Catholic community would even have known where is India situated. Yet the early seeds of her faith
and determination impelled her to leave her closely knit
family. She found that the route to India lay in
her joining
the Loreto Order
of teaching nuns, who were headquartered in faraway Calcutta. Here she
taught for close to 20 years
before her true calling propelled her to serve the poor in the streets and
slums. The Vatican, fantastically, gave her permission to step outside the Cloister, not as a lay worker
but with her religious vows intact, to set up her own order, the Missionaries of Charity. In 1948,
Calcutta's pavements were teeming with millions uprooted by the Partition, who had joined the
hapless sufferers of the Great Bengal famine. Into this sea of tragedy, homelessness, disease and
despair stepped a 38-year-old nun, dressed not in a recognizable nun's habit, but a sari similar to
what the municipal sweeper wore. She had no companion, no helper and no money to speak of.
What she did
have was a secret calling that her God wanted her to leave the security of the Loreto
Convent and minister to Him in his distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor, the abandoned
infant, the leprosy sufferer shunned by society and the dying destitute
Q. Mother Teresa left home because:​

Answer 1

mother Teresa left home because she wanted to teach nuns, who are the headquartered in faraway Calcutta. here she taught for close 20years before here true calling propelled her to serve the poor in the streets and slums