Saturday, September 18, 2010

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)


People make a lot of judgments about people by what a person looks like or where that person buys their clothes or works. But God looks upon the hearts of people and decides if they would be willing to climb aboard for a long, uphill climb!

This was certainly true of the person who would later be known as Mother Theresa. As a small girl in Calcutta, India, she was fascinated by the stories of missionaries and vowed that one day she would join the order of the Sisters of Loreta and be a missionary.

At the age of eighteen she joined the Order and never saw the members of her family again! She took the name after Thesese de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries.


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