What convinced Mother Teresa to help the poor?

Answer 1

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Mother Teresa was inspired to spread the Catholic faith wherever she could. Although the focus of her order, the Missionaries of Charity, was predominantly on evangelism, Mother Teresa knew that she needed to be seen as performing charity work in order to bring in the donations needed to finance her religious missions. Nevertheless, she made her priorities clear when she stated, " We are not nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teachers, we are not social workers. We are religious, we are religious, we are religious." Social work was only secondary to the work of spreading the Catholic religion.

Catholic Answer:

On September 10, 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" while traveling by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith." Mother Teresa never intended to expand her mission to evangelizing. In the 1980s she met with Pope John Paul II and he ordered that she must begin to include preaching Catholicism as part of her ministry. Since she had taken a vow of obedience, she started having her sisters trained in evangelization while continuing their prime mission to serve the poor.

Answer 2

In prayer, Our Blessed Lord told Mother Teresa that He thirsts for the souls of the poor. Blessed Teresa had taken a vow to refuse nothing to Our Blessed Lord, and so she went to the "poorest of the poor" to bring Christ to them.

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AnswerSo people could have better lives, she opened up orphanages for sick, dying, and poor children. Mother Teresa helped the poor, homeless, crippled, diseased, and infirm by providing them with a home to stay in. She made a home so that they could die peacefully. She also provided medications.

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Catholic Answer

The answer is not obvious to modern people as they did not understand Mother Theresa, because they do not understand real Christianity. Mother Theresa, a Catholic nun who entered the Sisters of Loretto in Ireland to become a teaching nun, was sent to India to teach. Later, moved with compassion, and the love of God, she received a "call" from God to help the poorest of the poor. The rest of her life was spent in "darkness" which I discuss below.

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Modern people, and most people who call themselves Christians, think that going to Church on Sunday, saying some things, and being nice to people is what it is all about. They are completely missing the mark. Those kind of things are just the tip of the iceberg. Mother Teresa helped others by loving God above all things, putting Him first in her life, and doing His Will no matter how painful it was for her, and it was very painful.

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Mother spent most of her life in a dark night with no real feeling or personal knowledge of God. This is very common with the founders of religious orders, they are strong enough in their faith to make their way through life totally depend on Faith, Hope, and Charity: the three cardinal virtues bestowed on us in Baptism. She sacrificed herself completely for God, and was called a saint and a prophet for it.

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Mother Theresa helped others the way we are all called to help others, by getting up in the morning, and taking some to give to God first. She spend an hour in Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, went to Holy Mass, received Our Blessed Lord in the Eucharist, and went to confession frequently, and regularly. And, then, when she had done these things, she went out and lived her faith by seeing her God in every individual in front of her, especially the poor, the sick, the aged, and the abandoned. She served God by serving Him in them - which is nothing more nor less than she lived the Gospel with every breath in her body.

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Mother Teresa showed compassion for those who were less fortunate than she was. She gave them food, lifted their spirits, and helped them survive. She is and was considered a hero to many people. After her death, she was put on the short list for canonization, and in 2012 I believe she has already had one miracle attributed to her, and has been beatified. Of course, she loved children.

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The Church often says that the only real way to help people, the way to become a good spouse, parent, teacher, or whatever, is to become a saint. Mother Teresa believed and lived this. She helped the poor by becoming a saint.

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To sum up, the love of God convinced Mother Teresa to help the poor.
she help the poor because she could

Answer 3

Mother Teresa was inspired by God.
God is the answer. Simple!

Answer 4

She was given a call from God.