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Birth
teresa de calcuta was born on august 26, 1910 -
teresa de calcuta
.He made his first communion at the age of five and was confirmed at six. At eight o´clock his father died and his family went through a period of economic hardship. He received a solid Christian formation at home and in the Jesuit parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. -
teresa de calcuta
.At 18 he left home to go to Ireland and entered the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better knowm as the Sisters of Loreto. It look the name of Teresa in honor of Saint Teresa of Liaieux, patroness of the missiones and Doctor of the Church. -
teresa de calcuta
.He arrived in Calcutta on January 6, 1929, feast of the Epiphany or descent of kings to work as a teacher On May 24, 1937, feast of Mary Help of Christians, she made her perpetual profession, becoming then, as she said, Jesus wife for all eternity. -
teresa de calcuta
.Through locutions and visions, Jesus was showing him the new missin to wich he called her. Come and be my light, the Lord begged. Christ revealed his pain for the ignorance they had of him and the desire to be loved by them. -
teresa de calcuta
.Through locutions and visions, Jesus was showing him the new missin to wich he called her. Come and be my light, the Lord begged. Christ revealed his pain for the ignorance they had of him and the desire to be loved by them. -
teresa de calcuta
.He spent many years in the Congregation of the Sisters of Loreto dedicatig himself to teaching. On September 10, 1946, on a trip to hid annual retreat, he received what he called the call within the call in which a thirst for love and souls took possesion of his heart. -
Teresa de Calcuta
.Teresa of Calcutta, of secular name Agnes Gonha Bojaxhiu and also know as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was a catholic nun of Albanian naturalized Indian origin, who founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950. -
teresa de calcuta
He began his day with the Eucharist and left the house with the rosary in his hand to serve the Lord in the poorest. He went to the confession once a week. On october 7, 1950, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary the new congregation of the Missionaries of Charity was officially establish. -
teresa de calcuta
In the 1960, Mother Teresa began sending her sisters to various parts of India. The first work that opened outside that country was established in Venezuela. Then they expanded to other continents and even reached communist countries such as the former Soviet Union and Cuba -
teresa de calcuta
Mother Teresa also founded the Missionary Brothers of Charity, the contemplative branch of the Sisters, the Contemplative Brothers, the Missionary Fathers of Charity, the Collaborators of Mother Teresa and the Sick and Suffering Collaborators. He also initiated the Corpus Christi Priestly Movement -
teresa de calcuta
In his inner life he experienced a deep, painful and constant feeling of separation from God, even of feeling rejected by Him, together with a growing desire for his love. She called darkness this inner experience that began more or less at the beginning of her service to the poor and that continued until the end of her life -
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teresa de calcuta
Mother Teresa and St. John Paul II were great friends and met several times. The saint himself allowed the opening of his cause of beatification before five years after the death of the candidate, planned by the Church and beatified on October 19, 2003, the day on which the World Mission Day was celebrated. -
teresa de calcuta
Given the large number of problems she faced frequently and in the midst of an accelerated pace of life, Mother Teresa of Calcutta invented a way to invoke the intercession of the Virgin Mary whom she named