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Mother chose to work in the slums because she believed that is what God was calling her to do. Her entire life was spent in the service of God, she had no other motivation.
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.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoMother Teresa worked in the slums of India helping the sick and homeless people. Often setting up schools for them and teaching them English.
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∙ 9y agoYes, so she could be close to the people she was trying to help.
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∙ 13y agoIn Calcutta India
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Where did Mother Teresa start her slum school?
In a open field
When did Mother Teresa start her slum school?
In 1948, Mother Teresa left the Sisters of Loretto and started a school in the slums to teach the children of the poor.
Where in India did Mother Teresa help people?
She served the poor people in slum of west bengal state more specifically in kolkatta city..
What were mother Teresa's personalities?
Mother Teresa's goal was to help and save the down trodden and provide shelter and care for those near death so that they did not die alone and abandoned in the gutters. She branched out to include the construction of schools, clinics and orphanages in her mission.To decrease the amount of poverty, healing slum children and adults, visiting orphanges, clinics and hospitals. She was wonderful.
What was mother Teresa fighting for?
Poverty and anything to do with poverty e.g. disease's, poor etc . she wanted to show people that it doesn't matter where you come from you still have equal rights and values if you live in a slum or mansion.
Did people want the changes Mother Teresa made?
A:It appears that the relatively wealthy people of India did not really know what changes Mother Teresa was attempting to make in the slum areas, but simply assumed that she was making changes they approved of. It also appears that many of the slum dwellers did not really notice any change. Mother Teresa is on record in various publications as having said that her order fed 4000, 5000, 7000 or 9000 people in Calcutta every day but Aroup Chatterjee, in a Deposition submitted before the committee for beatification of Mother Teresa, stated that her soup kitchens (numbering between two and three) in Calcutta did not feed more than 300 people daily, even as a generous over-estimate.The real changes that Mother Teresa made were through the many missions she set up for the propagation of the Catholic religion, using the majority of the financial resources available through donations to her order. No doubt, Hindus and Muslims did not welcome the efforts the Missionaries of Charity made to change the religion and way of life of so many vulnerable people, although they would have wanted much more of the order's money spent on relief for the desperately poor.
What middle school did Dwyane Wade go to?
gfuy He probaly went to school somewhere in the slum where he grew up.
Did Mother Teresa treat everybody in the world equally?
A:Apparently not. Aroup Chatterjee, in his deposition before the committee for beatification of Mother Teresa in February 1998, stated that that poor people must possess 'food cards' to obtain ration in at least one soup kitchen operated by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. These cards were not easy to come by for the poor, but virtually all Christians in a particular slum had food cards, when hardly any of the poor from the other religions had them.For herself, she insisted on the most modern medical treatment at the best clinics around the world, but failed even to provide quinine for the sisters working with the Missionaried of Charity, placing their lives at risk from malaria.
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Orher term for slum note
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