“SAINT OF THE GUTTERS”
Young Agnes was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service in Bengal. Influenced by their devotion she left her home at the age of 18 to work as missionary. She witnessed men and women, even young children, dying in the streets, rejected by local hospitals.
She felt the pain of their suffering and decided to dedicate the rest of her life to serve the poorest of the poor. With a few helpers, she found a home for the dying, so that she could care for the poor and lonely homeless people, regardless of whether they were dying of AIDS or Leprosy. After over 50 years of selfless devotion for helping the poor, she earned the name “Saint of the Gutters”.
Clad in white sari with a blue border, she became a symbol of hope to many-
the aged, the destitute, the unemployed, the diseased, the terminally ill and those abandoned by their family. This was Mother Teresa.
When people asked her what made her happy, she always said that the greatest joy was to care for the poor in the last stretch of their earthly journey, so that they were able to die in peace and with dignity.
Governments around the world have been trying to remove poverty since ages. Pick up a person from the street. If he is hungry, give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, and be satisfied. You have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from the society.
Mother Teresa loved these unwanted and unloved.
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread”
-Mother Teresa
Young Agnes was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service in Bengal. Influenced by their devotion she left her home at the age of 18 to work as missionary. She witnessed men and women, even young children, dying in the streets, rejected by local hospitals.
She felt the pain of their suffering and decided to dedicate the rest of her life to serve the poorest of the poor. With a few helpers, she found a home for the dying, so that she could care for the poor and lonely homeless people, regardless of whether they were dying of AIDS or Leprosy. After over 50 years of selfless devotion for helping the poor, she earned the name “Saint of the Gutters”.
Clad in white sari with a blue border, she became a symbol of hope to many-
the aged, the destitute, the unemployed, the diseased, the terminally ill and those abandoned by their family. This was Mother Teresa.
When people asked her what made her happy, she always said that the greatest joy was to care for the poor in the last stretch of their earthly journey, so that they were able to die in peace and with dignity.
Governments around the world have been trying to remove poverty since ages. Pick up a person from the street. If he is hungry, give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, and be satisfied. You have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from the society.
Mother Teresa loved these unwanted and unloved.
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread”
-Mother Teresa
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