The Missionaries of Charity

The Missonaries of Charity are a religious order founded by the late (...and the great!) Mother Teresa M.C. Their vocation is to serve Christ in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor. A congregation founded in 1950 which has its roots in Calcutta. The following is the way Kathryn Spink refers to the erection of the congregation in her book 'Mother Teresa An Authorised Biography' (1997):

On the 7 October 1950, Archbishop Perier said Mass for the first time at the altar in the tiny chapel on the top floor of Alfred Gomes' house in Creek Lane. A large congregation assembled to hear Father Van Evex read the decree of erection, which described how"a little group of women under the guidance of Sister M. Teresa" had devoted themselves " with generous heart and with great profit for the souls, to helping the poor - the children, grown-ups, the aged and also the sick, in this our Metropolitan City". It went on to speak of the "earnest examination" of the group following the request to be erected into a religious congregation, and the conclusion that "no other Congregation already in existence answers the purpose which this new Institute is intending". Finally it spoke of how "those who join this Institute are resolved to spend themselves unremittingly in seeking out, in towns and villages, even amid squalid surroundings, the poorer, the abandoned, the sick, the infirm, the dying; in taking care of them assiduously and instructing them in the Christian Doctrine, in endevouring to the utmost to bring about their conversion and satisfaction. . . .And in performing any other similar apostolic works and services, however lowly and mean they appear." It was given under Archbishop Perier's signature and seal on the day of the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary, 7 October 1950, and on that same day the eleven who had by that time joined Mother Teresa began their postulancy as Missionaries of Charity.

Servant of God Mother Teresa

PRAYER FOR THE CANONIZATION OF THE SERVANT OF GOD MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Other sites on the Missionaries of Charity or Mother Teresa: Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity Missionaries of Charity Fathers Missionaries of Charity Brothers Mother Teresa and Her Missionaries of Charity Remembering Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, Missionaries of Charity Missionaries of Charity Photo Archive - Missionaries of Charity In memoriam