The American Minute: Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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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 of an hour, instead of feeling themselves rejected and abandoned, they meet with Christian love and care...

... 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.'"

On February 3, 1994, frail 83-year-old Mother Teresa addressed the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., before an audience of 3,000, including President and Mrs. Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore:

"Jesus died on the Cross because that is what it took for Him to do good to us - to save us from our selfishness in sin...

The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself, and if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"

Mother Teresa added:

"How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion?...

We must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us.

So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans or her free time, to respect the life of her child.

The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

And, by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women into the same trouble.

So abortion just leads to more abortion."

Mother Teresa continued:

"Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.

Many people are very, very concerned with the children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on.

Many people are also concerned about all the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good.

But often these same people are not concerned with the millions who are being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers....

We have sent word to the clinics, to the hospitals and police stations: 'Please don't destroy the child; we will take the child.' So we always have someone tell the mothers in trouble: 'Come, we will take care of you, we will get a home for your child.'"

Mother Teresa spoke further:

"And we have a tremendous demand from couples who cannot have a child...

Jesus said, 'Anyone who receives a child in my name, receives me.'

By adopting a child, these couples receive Jesus but by aborting a child, a couple refuses to receive Jesus.

Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child.

I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.

From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortion...."

Mother Teresa concluded:

"If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world.

From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world.

If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!"

Just five days after Princess Diana was killed, Mother Teresa died SEPTEMBER 5, 1997.

Albanian Mother Teresa shared what motivated her:

"I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him.

This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus."

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"The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself, and if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" ~ Mother Teresa

[Mrs. Don-o]

Switching the topic, for a moment, from Mother T to Christopher Hitchens. Their stories converge, though, so I thik this is fair.

I have a hypothesis about the late atheist, the dear and cantankerous "Hitch". I think the luckiest thing he ever did, was to launch a vile attack on Mother T.

"Lucky" --- I hardly can say "Providential" --- because it would have identified himself as Mother T's enemy, and Mother T would surely have a huge love in her burning heart, for her enemies. She would love him for the love of God!

I think she prayed for him in this life, and continued praying for him in the life to come, where she nestles at the feet of Christ our Savior. All of which means dear ol' Hitch had some of the best intercession possible, Mother T joined with Jesus Christ Our Lord!

A deathbed conversion, by all outward appearances didn't happen (although this is disputed by some). However, Hitch lived in fear that it would. I find this so poignant: Hitch kept saying repeatedly, in his dying days, that he would NEVER believe in God and that if it were ever reported that he did, it must be either that he had lost his mind, or that the reporter had fabricated a complete falsehood.

At any rate, Scripture says that to God a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day. I daresay that works out to Hitch having, in his final seconds, a couple of months to think about what he most feared: not hell, but heaven. Not final imbecility, but final coherence. Not "nothingness," but the One Who Is.

So I personally hold the hope that he made it. With Christ --- the all-powerful and all-sufficient--- pulling on one hand, and Mother T, for friendship's sake, on the other.

[NKP_Vet]

Heard Hitchens say a few months before he died that he wanted to thank everyone that had wished him a recovery, even the ones that had said prayers for him..........even though he said he was not converting. His brother Peter is a conservative Christian.

[Salvation]

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[ichabod1]

Oh My Jesus, save me from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to Heaven especially those most in need of Thy mercy.

[Kolokotronis]

Thank-you so much for this. It is the finest article I have seen on this site in at least a year. This is all about the love of Christ for His Creation and how we are called to join His work as His laborers. What we read here is the distilled, true teaching of Christ and His Holy Church. So, so much of what we read here on FR is angry and hate filled, especially for the last six months or so. And then I come from the Liturgy and read this. Thank-you again!

[avenir]

“Switching the topic, for a moment, from Mother T to Christopher Hitchens...”

Since you mentioned it, did “Hitch” have even one valid critique of “Mother T”? Wouldn’t be the first scalawag God sent to burst some believer’s bubble.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't think so. His published assault against her, which I read carefully, was hardly to be dignified with words like "argument" or "critique." They were tendentious, maliciously distorted, and an obvious attempt to defile (as distinguished from "discuss critically".)

I say this as a person with a sincere fondness and even respect for Hitchens. Nevetheless, he did wrong by Mother T. It was an embarrassingly poor exercise of his intellectual gifts.

[avenir]

Thanks for your reply.