What is some information about Mother Teresa?

Answer 1

• Began a care center for people with leprosy

• Founded the Missionaries of Charity

• Look after poor, sick, orphaned and dying people

• Becomes novitiate in Loretto order

• Takes vow as a nun

• Persuaded Israelis and Palestinians to stop shooting long enough to rescue 37 special needs kids from a hospital

• Took leftover food from a plane & gave it to the poor and the hungry

• Opened the "House of the Dying" where she could take care of patients

Answer 2

Some info is that Mother Teresa used to help the poor and she openened an orpanage for lost, homeless , sick and poor children and adults. Mother Teresa was a truly great person.

Catholic Answer

The answer is not obvious to modern people as they did not understand Mother Theresa (as of 2013, she is Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, with another miracle, she will be St. Teresa of Calcutta) because they do not understand real Christianity. Blessed Theresa of Calcutta, a Catholic sister who entered the Sisters of Loretto in Ireland to become a teaching sister, 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.

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.

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.

Mother Theresa helped others the way we are all called to help others, by getting up in the morning, and taking some time 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.

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.

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.

The various ways that she accomplished that was that she always did the Will of God even when she didn't feel as if God was there or approving of her. She cared for the poorest of the poor.

She established hospices and hospitals for the sick and dying, she started in Calcutta as she started a new religious order, the Missionaries of Charity, which spread throughout the world. Today the Order still cares for the poorest of the poor, the sick and dying. Mother Theresa and her sisters went out into the streets and picked up the dying homeless to bring them to her hospice. They clean them, feed them, pray with them, and serve them so that they spend their last days or hours in dignity. She and her Order treat those dying of AIDS, the lepers, the untouchables, those whom nobody else will love and care for. She saw Our Blessed Lord in everyone of them, in disguise, pleading for our help and love. She treated them as she would treat Our Blessed Lord, Himself.

Answer 3

Mother Teresa was an Albanian nun who worked in Calcutta all her life.

Saint Teresa is from the city of avila.

mother Teresa collected leftover food off airplanes when she traveled on them and gave it to the poor and the hungry.

Mother Teresa's white sari with blue stripes only cost $1

She was born into an Albanian family

She was also awarded the Nobel peace prize, the money for the banquet she asked to feed the poor, it fed 15000 hungry people.
her father died when she was 8

she built a care place

her real name is Agnese

she was a nun

she ran a marathon before becoming nun
Mother Teresa was born on August 26. 1910 in Uskup, Ottaman Empire

She died on September 5, 1997 in Calcutta, India

Answer 4

Mother Teresa ostentatiously collected leftover food off airplanes when she traveled on them, even first class, and gave it to the poor and hungry.

Mother Teresa had a brother and sister and the brothers name was Lazar and her sister's name was Age. She had a very good childhood because she have 2 loving and caring parents but the father named Nikolle Bojaxhiu died when mother Teresa was about 8 years old so her mother Drandofile Bojaxhiu had to raise her 3 children.

Answer 5

Meg Greene has published a biography about Mother Teresa which has had only mediocre reviews and is quite expensive. It is available on Amazon at this link.There are a number of biographies available on line that are fairly good and objective. This one on Wikipedia is good. The Mother Teresa website has a good biography available in several languages at this link. Avoid books by Hitchens, Livermore and others as they do not present an objective view but authors who have an agenda to destroy this wonderful saint with information that is based on half truths and distortions.

Answer 6

There are a number of excellent biographies of Mother Teresa on the internet. I would suggest you do a search and start there.

A book about Mother Teresa, entitled Mother Teresa: A Biography by Meg Greene.

A more detailed first hand experience of working with Mother Teresa, warts and all, is Hope Endures, a book by by Colette Livermore.

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by Christopher Hitchens about the life and work of Mother Teresa. This book is not for everyone, because it contains research that reveals the darker side of Mother Teresa.

Answer 7

If you have an important question about Mother Teresa, feel free to ask it.

Answer 8

Yes, there is a huge amount of information about Mother Teresa on the Internet, including several excellent biographies. This world of information is just waiting for you to search for it.