Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was born in Skopje (present-day Macedonia) and joined the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin in 1928. She left the Loreto order in 1948 to begin the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. Her service to the poorest of the poor became her life's work. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was beatified in 2003.
We have all been created for greater things -- to love and to be
loved. Love is love -- to love a person without any conditions,
without any expectations. Works of love are works of peace and
purity. Works of love are always a means of Becoming closer to God,
so the more we help each other, the more we really love God better
by loving each other. Jesus very clearly said, 'Love one another as
I have loved you,' Love in action is what gives us grace. We pray
and, if we are able to love with a whole heart, then we will see
the need. Those who are unwanted, unloved, and uncared for become
just a throwaway of society -that's why we must really make
everybody feel wanted.
"There is something else to remember -- that this kind of love
begins at home. We cannot give to the outside what we don't have on
the inside. This is very important. If I can't see God's love in my
brother and sister then how can I see that love in somebody else?
How can I give it to somebody else? Everybody has got some good.
Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there."
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