Question

Describe the Mother Teresa?

Answer 1

I would describe this saint by saying that she dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor. She did this exclusively out of love for Jesus. You might know that she experienced the Dark Night of the Soul for 50 years. Despite this, she persisted in doing God’s will. This, in itself, shows amazing Love. She founded one of the most prominent Religious Orders in the Catholic Church: Missionaries of Charity. After being “discovered” by the famed British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, she gained world prominence and was awarded a Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. I had the privilege of seeing her speak to the graduating class of 1982 of Thomas Aquinas College seniors. I was zeroed in on every word she said. A very humble person with great patience, she accomplished tremendous acts of love for Christ.

Answer 2

Mother Teresa

Saint, Nun (1910-1997)

Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor. Considered one of the 20th Century's greatest humanitarians, she was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.

Nun and missionary Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor. Born in Macedonia to parents of Albanian-descent and having taught in India for 17 years, Mother Teresa experienced her "call within a call" in 1946. Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged and disabled; and a leper colony. In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. She died in September 1997 and was beatified in October 2003. In December 2015, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for her to be canonized on September 4, 2016.