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| Mother Teresa 1910-1997 |
| "We can do no great things; only small things with great love." |
| "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." |
| Dear Jesus, Help us to spread your fragrance everywhere we go. Flood our souls with your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess our whole being so utterly that our lives may only be a radiance of yours. Shine through us and be so in us that every soul we come in contact with may feel your presence in our soul. Let them look up and see no longer us, but only Jesus. Stay with us and then we shall begin to shine as you shine,so to shine as to be light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from you. None of it will be ours. It will be you shining on others through us. Let us thus praise you in the way you love best by shining on those around us. Let us preach you without preaching, not by words, but by our example; by the catching force - the sympathetic influence of what we do, the evident fullness of the love our hearts bear to you. Amen. |
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| Mother Teresa was born in Albania as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. In 1948, she became a citizen of India, and at the age of 18, she entered Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland. In 1931, Mother Teresa took the name of Teresa and in 1937 took her vows, after which she taught for 20 years in Saint Mary's High School in Calcutta, India. She felt called by God to serve the poorest of the poor who lived in the streets, and began to share her life with the poor, the sick and the hungry of Calcutta. She established the Missionaries of Charity, and soon began to care for lepers. Centers have opened almost everywhere around the world to assist lepers, the elderly, the blind, and people living with AIDS. Mother Teresa also opened schools and homes for the poor and abandoned children. |