Friday afternoon, we were able to visit the Missionaries of Charity site, here in Kolkata. This is a society founded by Mother Teresa and this was the "home base" so to speak of the organization that has now grown to include houses on each continent and in most countries of the world. The main aim of the Missionaries of Charity is "to help all those people who are sick, poor and needy and have been discarded by society." We were only able to see in certain areas such as Mother Teresa's room that she used until and including the day she died, a small museum with artifacts and handwritten documents that belonged to her and a small chapel where mass is held regularly and you can see the tomb of Mother Teresa (pic 4). It was interesting in the museum to see so many pictures of her at different stages of life. We couldn't take photos in this section, but I included a picture I found of her at a young age in case you, like me, had never thought of her as being a young girl! Some of you may already know that she was born in Albania with the name Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu. One of my favorite pictures in the museum shows when she first becomes a postulant and is posing in her white robes. On the back, she wrote about how hard it is to look serious for a picture when you have just been laughing heartily with your friends. One of my favorite handwritten documents was titled "Who Is Jesus to Me?" I found a copy of it at the following link http://catholicfire.blogspot.com/2008/03/blessed-mother-teresa-who-is-jesus-to.html Upon leaving, someone leaned over and whispered, "Did you ever think you would be here and see this?" I think many of us felt a sense of awe at the life of this remarkable woman and that we were blessed to get a personal glimpse into it.
"I prefer that you work mistakes in kindness than that you work miracles in unkindness." - Mother Teresa
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