short interview with mother teresa.
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Anto Akkara: Mother, what is your mother tongue?
Mother Teresa: Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
AA: Right now what do you feel: Are you an Indian or Albanian?
MT: I am everything. Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.
AA: So, you have no nationality?
MT: I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time. Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation.
AA: When you started your Congregation, did you ever think that it would grow as it is today?
MT: Oh, that everybody knows. We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses – tabernacles we call them – and over 4600 nuns. It’s simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God.
(Today, MCs are in 139 countries with 758 ‘Tabernacles’ and 5160 nuns)
AA: What is the motive of all your work? Is it the fundamentalist religious motive as critics say?
MT: Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. “Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren.” Clear? That was the work of Jesus. Again, Jesus has said “Come, blessed of my Father, take the seat in the kingdom prepared for you, because I was hungry you gave me food, I was thirsty you have me drink, I was naked you clothed me, I was homeless you took me home and I was sick you visited me.” And we are just doing that. Brothers, Fathers and Sisters – all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.
AA: There are allegations that you receive funds and awards from persons with dubious character. Do you verify the credentials of the donors before accepting anything?
MT: No question of that. We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor. Whatever we get from the government or other people – even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service. We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer? …
AA: Recently the Sankaracharya has accused that the ultimate aim of your “manav seva” (service to mankind) is conversion. How do you answer that?
MT: My answer is: God forgive them all. For they know not what they are saying. I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others. Works of love are always works of peace. In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn’t ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come. They have to see the beautiful work that is being done. So many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor. Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.
AA: What about the charge of conversion?
MT: Nobody can convert you except God. Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God. Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant. Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It’s between you and God alone. Nobody can force you. We pick up people dying full of worms from the street. We have picked up more than 40,000 of them. If I lift up such a person, clean him, love him and serve him, is it conversion? He has been there like an animal in the street but I am giving him love and he dies peacefully. That peace comes from his heart. That’s between him and God. Nobody can interfere in that. Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim’s body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead. I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God – to have a clean heart and to love God. That’s the real conversion.
(This appeared in Vatican Radio on Sept. 2, 2016)
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