Commitment to Evangelization

She was born in what is known as Macedonia, just north of Greece. Her family lived in poverty and her father died when she was seven. Mom opened and operated an embroidered cloth business. Her brother was determined to break away from the chains of poverty and joined the army and became an officer. When his sister was 12 she felt the call to become a missionary. Brother was upset, “Why don’t you make something of yourself and your life?” To which she said, “You think you are so important as an army officer, serving a king of two million subjects. Well I am going to serve the King of the whole world. In 1976 the brother stood in a crowd of admirers in Stockholm and watched his sister receive the Nobel Prize for her work with the poor.

She was born in what is known as Macedonia, just north of Greece.

Her family lived in poverty and her father died when she was seven.

Mom opened and operated an embroidered cloth business.

Her brother was determined to break away from the chains of poverty and joined the army and became an officer.

When his sister was 12 she felt the call to become a missionary.

Brother was upset, “Why don’t you make something of yourself and your life?”

To which she said, “You think you are so important as an army officer, serving a king of two million subjects.

Well I am going to serve the King of the whole world.

In 1976 the brother stood in a crowd of admirers in Stockholm and watched his sister receive the Nobel Prize for her work with the poor.

I’m sure you never heard of the brother but his sister the one he wanted to make something of her life, is known in every corner of the world. Mother Teresa She was born on August 26, 1910 and died at the age of 87 in 1997. The story of her devotion to the poor really begins just after her argument with her brother. She left home and mother to join the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta but the poverty just outside the convent walls made a deep impression on her. At the age of 38 she received permission to leave the convent school and to live and work among the “poorest of the poor,” in the slums of Calcutta.

I’m sure you never heard of the brother but his sister the one he wanted to make something of her life, is known in every corner of the world.

Mother Teresa

She was born on August 26, 1910 and died at the age of 87 in 1997.

The story of her devotion to the poor really begins just after her argument with her brother.

She left home and mother to join the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns

with missions in India.

Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta but the poverty just outside the convent walls made a deep impression on her.

At the age of 38 she received permission to leave the convent school and to live and work among the “poorest of the poor,” in the slums of Calcutta.

Her devotion to the poor led others to follow her lead. In 1950 she received permission to start an order called, “The Missionaries of Charity,” whose mission was to love and care for those neglected by society. She and her small group of nuns would pick up the poor from the streets, feed them, bandage their wounds and yes, sometimes they were too late in finding them because they had died . Even then Mother Teresa’s group would pick up the dead and provide them with a dignified funeral. In 1965 The Missionaries of Charity became an International Religious Family by order of Pope Paul VI. Mother Teresa demonstrated on a daily basis those same traits offered by John the Baptist. He worked in an effort to build up the kingdom of God and fulfill the mission given to him by God.

Her devotion to the poor led others to follow her lead.

In 1950 she received permission to start an order called, “The Missionaries of Charity,” whose mission was to love and care for those neglected by society.

She and her small group of nuns would pick up the poor from the streets, feed them, bandage their wounds and yes, sometimes they were too late in finding them because they had died .

Even then Mother Teresa’s group would pick up the dead and provide them with a dignified funeral.

In 1965 The Missionaries of Charity became an International Religious Family by order of Pope Paul VI.

Mother Teresa demonstrated on a daily basis those same traits offered by John the Baptist.

He worked in an effort to build up the kingdom of God and fulfill the mission given to him by God.

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