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By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. As for faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. In regards to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus. "Small of stature, rocklike in faith, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was entrusted with the mission of proclaiming God's thirsting love for humanity, especially for the poorest of the poor. "God still loves theworld and He sends you and me to be His love and compassion for the poor." It was a soul filled with the light of Christ, on fire with love for Him and burning with one desire: "to quench His thirst for love and souls".
This luminous messenger of God's love was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, a city situated at the crossroads of Balkan history. She was the youngest child of Nikola and DraneBojaxhiu, she was baptized Gonxha Agnes, received her First Communion at the age of five and a half and was confirmed in November 1916. From the day of his First Communion, was within her love for souls. The sudden death of his father, when Gonxha was about eight years old, left the family in financial straits. Drane raised her children firmly and lovingly, greatly influencing the character andvocation if daughter. In his Gonxha's religious formation was further assisted by the vibrant Jesuit parish of the Sacred Heart, in which she was much involved.
When I was eighteen, moved by a desire to become a missionary, Gonxha left her home in September 1928 to join the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as the Sisters of Loreto, in Ireland. There she received the name Sister Mary Teresa(by St. Teresa of Lisieux). In December, she departed for India, arriving in Calcutta on 6 January 1929. After professing her first vows in May 1931, Sister Teresa was assigned to the Loreto Entally community in Calcutta and taught at St. Mary School for Girls. On May 24, 1937, Sister Teresa made her Final Profession of Vows, becoming, as she said, the "spouse of Jesus" for "all eternity." Fromthen on she was called Mother Teresa. She continued teaching at St. Mary became director of the center in 1944. Being a person of profound prayer and deep love for her religious sisters and her students, Mother Teresa's twenty years spent in Loreto were filled with profound joy. Noted for her charity, unselfishness and courage, her capacity for hard work and a natural talent for organization, shelived out her consecration to Jesus among his companions, with fidelity and joy.
The September 10, 1946, while traveling from Calcutta to Darjeeling for her annual retreat, Mother Teresa received her "inspiration," her "call within a call". That day, in a way she would never explain, the thirst for love and for souls took hold of her heart and the desire to satiate His thirst became the drivingforce of his life. Over the next weeks and months, through interior locutions and visions, Jesus revealed the desire of his heart for "victims of love" who would "radiate His love on souls." "Come Be My Light," begged Jesus. "I can not go alone." He revealed His pain at the neglect of the poor, His sorrow at their ignorance of Him and the desire to be loved by them. He asked Mother Teresa toestablish a religious community, Missionaries of Charity, dedicated to the service of the poorest of the poor. It took almost two years of testing and discernment passed before Mother Teresa received permission to begin. On August 17, 1948 for the first time dressed with white, blue-bordered sari and passed through the gates of her beloved Loreto convent to enter the world of the poor.
After a shortcourse with the Medical Mission Sisters in Patna, Mother Teresa returned to Calcutta and found temporary lodging with the Little Sisters of the Poor. On 21 December she went first to the slums. She visited families, washed the sores of some children, cared for an old man lying sick on the road and nursed a woman who was dying of hunger and TB. She started each day in communion with Jesus in the...