what did Mother Theresa do exactly?

Question

and Princess Diana too? they both did somethin that made them the nations best women....anyother women who made a difference in the world? i've got a 2 page essay due monday and i need some ideas like right now...so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Mother Theresa and Diana both worked on humanitarian missions, mainly dealing with children. Diana especially worked to get land mines taken out of areas where children are. Theresa was a campainer for the poor of the world.

Answer 2

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, OM, (born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in India. Her work among the poverty-stricken of Kolkata (Calcutta) made her one of the world's most famous people, and she was beatified by Pope John Paul II in October 2003. Hence, she may be properly called Blessed Teresa by Catholics.

I would not put Princess Diana in the same league with Mother Teresa. She was a wealthy and famous woman who was able to use her wealth to stay in the public eye. She certainly did some good, but nothing like Mother Teresa. No trouble to write a two page essay just on Mother Teresa.

Consider Rosa Parks. Florence Nightingale. Sacajawea. Marie Curie.

These links should give you plenty of ideas. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Mother Theresa help many poor childern and family I'm know mutch about Princess Diana but she was a good person.

Answer 4

You may also want to note some of Mother Theresa's not so shining moments. She encouraged sacramental baptisms to be performed on dying people of the Hindu and Muslim faith, a total disregard for the beliefs of other people and the worlds she worked in.

Additionally she was also responsible for very poor conditions in the Home for Dying Destitute in Calcutta in which volunteers and nuns WITH NO MEDICAL training made major decisions on patient care. Nor did Theresa quarantine people with tuberculous, properly sterilize needs that were reused on patients (she had staff running them under warm water to clean them) nor did she use any form of pain management for people who were ill.

The majority of the money she took in went to benefit nuns and priests in retirement homes. The sick and poor saw very little of this money and it showed in the management and facilities provided to them.

No one is a saint.

Answer 5

Mother Theresa and her order of nuns cared for the poor by giving them food to eat, clothing to wear and shelters where they could have a good nights rest and get cleaned up each day. For this she is to be considered a Saint as she cared more for others than herself. She was the epitome of Jesus call to love one another as you would want them to love you.

Answer 6

Helping the poorest of the poorest. They both died within a week apart of each other.

Answer 7

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.

On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.

Today the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. In 1963 both the Contemplative branch of the Sisters and the Active branch of the Brothers was founded. In 1979 the Contemplative branch of the Brothers was added, and in 1984 the Priest branch was established.

The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers.

The Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969. By the 1990s there were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. Along with the Co-Workers, the lay Missionaries of Charity try to follow Mother Teresa's spirit and charism in their families.

Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards.
I would not compare mother theresa to lady DIana ...mother theresa truly gaved up material wealth to help the poor ...if I had an allowance of millions a year I too would make it a hobby to travel around the world and help the poor ...but mother thresa placed herself with people who had leporacy and was severly ill placing her own fragility at risk .She became a nun at 13 as well !!!


WOuld you believe she also under went an exorcism ...I included the link from CNN
Archbishop: Mother Teresa underwent exorcism


By Satinder Bindra
CNN New Delhi Bureau

KOLKATA, India (CNN) -- Senior church officials in Kolkata, previously called Calcutta, India, acknowledge Mother Teresa had an exorcism performed on her in the later years of life.

The exorcism took place in a hospital where she had gone for cardiac problems, said Archbishop of Calcutta Henry D'Souza. The archbishop himself had been hospitalized at the same facility and shared the same doctor as Mother Teresa.

He said he noticed that while Mother Teresa was calm during the day, at night she appeared "extremely agitated." D'Souza said Mother Teresa would pull off wires and other monitoring equipment stuck to her body.

He said that is when he believed Mother Teresa "might be under the attack of the evil one." He offered to arrange for an exorcism for the elderly nun. She agreed.

"So I said let's do the prayer of exorcism over her. So I called one of the priests who was a holy man in Calcutta," D'Souza said. "I told him, 'Please say the prayer of exorcism over Mother Teresa.' And he got a shock and said, 'Shall I pray and should I drive out the devil if it's there?'"

"I said, 'Yes, you do.' But he says, 'What will the devil do to me?' I said to him, 'You command the devil to go if he's there. In the name of the church, as archbishop, I command you to go and do it.'"

After the exorcism was over, the archbishop said Mother Teresa "slept like a baby."

He emphasized that other great religious leaders faced similar challenges.

D'Souza said the revelations about Mother Teresa show that she was "both holy and human," making her even more special.

The archbishop also corroborated earlier reports on CNN that Mother Teresa felt abandoned by God at times during her life.

Those revelations were first made to CNN by Mother Teresa's closest confidante, Sister Nirmala, who now heads the order, Missionaries of Charity, established by Mother Theresa in 1950.

"This is part of the spiritual life of people, and God sometimes wants to unite the soul very closely to himself. He will allow them to feel abandoned by Him. And Jesus also on the cross felt he was abandoned," Sister Nirmala said.

She said Mother Teresa is most remembered for her humanness -- "How human she was, how loving she was. How she wanted to be just one of us."

D'Souza told CNN that Mother Teresa felt abandoned particularly in her early years -- feelings she revealed in letters.

He said in one letter she wrote that she had been walking the streets of Calcutta all day searching for a house where she could start her work.

"At the end of the day, she came back and she wrote in her diary, 'Today, I wandered the streets the whole day. My feet are aching and I have not been able to find a home. And I also get the temptation, of the tempter telling me, "Leave all this, go back to the convent in which you came."'"

She found her home and the rest is history. The Missionaries of Charity feeds 500,000 families a year in Calcutta alone, treats 90,000 leprosy patients annually and educates 20,000 children every year.

Millions of Indians marked the fourth anniversary of her death (she died September 5, 1997). The archbishop led a Mass Wednesday morning at the Motherhouse, where Mother Teresa lived. Statues in the house were decorated with garlands and her grave was bedecked in flowers.

The Vatican has begun the process of trying to declare her a saint who dedicated her life to the service of the poor.

"Today, Mother is with God. Now in his presence, she has more power with God. She is no more on earthly level," Sister Nirmala said. "She has passed to eternal life. There she is very, very powerful."








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