A Saint Remembered

Mother Teresa did not take her eye off of a goal of her "call within a call". She pressed on undaunted by skeptics, criticism, favorable press, awards, or compliments. She, as they say, walked with kings and kept the "common touch".

In l979, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway for overcoming poverty. When she was asked what we could do to promote World Peace, she answered, "Go home and love your family!" In 1985 she was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.

After her death, Pope John Paul II had her declared a saint to be known, thereafter, as the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. The Missionaries of Charity, which she began, had 4000 Sisters working to carry out her work. Six hundred and ten missions were operating in 123 countries when she died.

And all started by a woman willing to listen to a "Call within a Call".