Thoughts on Mother Theresa

 Thoughts on Mother Theresa

One of the most famous Albanians was the humble daughter of an Albanian grocer. Born in 1910, she joined a Catholic religious order at age 18 and began working in the slums of Calcutta, India. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979. This was Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Malcolm Muggeridge, a British Journalist who had converted to Christianity, wrote in "The Human Holocaust," (Human Life Review, 1980): "Mother Teresa ... in Calcutta, goes to great trouble to have brought into her Home for Dying Derelicts, castaways left to die in the streets. They may survive for no more than a quarter of an hour, but in that quarter hour, they are lavished with Christian love.

... Mother Teresa's ... love and compassion reach out to the afflicted without any other consideration than their immediate need, just as our Lord does when He tells us to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, clothe the naked.

She gives all she has to give at once, and then finds she has more to give ... Something of God's love has rubbed off on Mother Teresa."

Phyllis Schlafly wrote in The Power of the Positive Woman (NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1978): "Few women in history have ever known the career fulfillment that Mother Teresa has known.

She is the Albanian nun who has made it her mission to minister to the poor and dying in Calcutta, India ... She has become a living legend, acclaimed throughout the world-a career success and a happy woman by any standard. And Mother Teresa has said that men could never equal women in love and compassion."

Mother Teresa explained: "Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

"If you want to pray better, you must pray more. We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

Ronald Reagan wrote in "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation," (Human Life Review, 1983): "The revered Mother Teresa, who works in the streets of Calcutta ministering to dying people in her world-famous mission of mercy, has said that 'the greatest misery of our time is the generalized abortion of children' ...

We can echo the always-practical woman of faith, Mother Teresa, when she says, 'If you don't want the little child, that unborn child, give him to me.'"