STRONG IN FAITH AND LOVE
The Church celebrates on September 5 the feast of Mother Teresa, a universal symbol of God's merciful and preferential love for the poor and forgotten. Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Macedonia, the youngest of three children. She attended a youth group called Sodality, run by a Jesuit priest at her parish, and her involvement opened her to the call of service as a missionary nun. She joined the Sisters of Loretto at age 17 and was sent to Calcutta where she taught at a high school. She contracted Tuberculosis and was sent to rest in Darjeeling. It was on the train to Darjeeling that she received her calling - what she called "an order" from God to leave the convent and work and live among the poor. She started working in the slums, teaching poor children, and treating the sick in their homes. She was joined a year later by some of her former students and together they took in men, women, and children who were dying in the gutters along the streets and cared for them.
She often said that the poorest of the poor were those who had no one to care for them and no one who knew them. And she often remarked with sadness and desolation of millions of souls in the developed world whose spiritual poverty and loneliness was such an immense cause of suffering. Mother Teresa once said, "give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness." As we celebrate her feast, let us implore God’s blessings on us that with the inspiration of Mother Teresa’s example of outreach and love for all human beings, we strive each day to grow, “Strong in Faith and Love”.
Liturgy for the Feast of Mother Teresa (Sept.5) -
Mother Teresa Song - https://youtu.be/XZhwYgAPVyM
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