write a fictitious interview of yourself with mother teresa
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Well Mother Teresa herself gave her identity: “By blood, I am Albanian.
By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.”
On Sept. 4, 2016, Mother Teresa will be officially proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis at a canonization Mass in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Even before this ceremony, she has been acclaimed a saint not just by Christians, but many others of other faiths.
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu of Albanian parents on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, in what is Macedonia today, Mother Teresa came to eastern India’s Kolkata city, formerly Calcutta, in 1929, as a missionary of the Sisters of Loreto.
Later, in what she described as a ‘call within a call’, she founded her Missionaries of Charity congregation in 1950 to serve Jesus in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor. She obtained Indian citizenship the following year. Mother Teresa earned 124 national as well as international honours for her works of mercy, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
She died on September 5, 1997 at the age of 87 and St. John Paul II declared her Blessed in the Vatican, on October 19, 2003.
Mother Teresa often accepted invitations to talk, as they would offer her an opportunity to draw the world’s attention on the poor and needy. Here’s one such interview where she talked Anto Akkara, an Indian rights advocate and journalist with international media. Mother Teresa spoke to Anto Akkara on November 17, 1995 at the Missionaries of Charity’s ‘Nirmala Sishu Bhavan’ centre in New Delhi. Below is a transcript of the interview.
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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.