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US Postal Service Honors Mother Teresa With Stamp
Catholic World News ^ | 12/31/09

Posted on 12/31/2009 7:45:04 AM PST by marshmallow

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta will be honored with a United States postal stamp in 2010.

“With this stamp, the U.S. Postal Service recognizes Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work,” according to a Postal Service press release. “Noted for her compassion toward the poor and suffering, Mother Teresa, a diminutive Roman Catholic nun and honorary U.S. citizen, served the sick and destitute of India and the world for nearly 50 years. Her humility and compassion, as well as her respect for the innate worth and dignity of humankind, inspired people of all ages and backgrounds to work on behalf of the world’s poorest populations.”


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1 posted on 12/31/2009 7:45:04 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Think I’ll get one and send Christopher Hitchens a postcard.


2 posted on 12/31/2009 7:46:44 AM PST by Brugmansian
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To: marshmallow

I don’t like the timing and I wish they would not have issued this stamp.

It is a cheap marketing ploy to improve the legitimacy of Obama’s receiving the same award.


3 posted on 12/31/2009 7:51:06 AM PST by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: markomalley

You read my mind.


4 posted on 12/31/2009 8:11:08 AM PST by Mach9 (.)
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To: marshmallow

Mother Theresa was four square against abortion.

I will buy these stamps , happily


5 posted on 12/31/2009 8:14:12 AM PST by Venturer
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To: marshmallow

How long until the ACLU, People United for Separation of Church & State, and People for the American Way file lawsuits?


6 posted on 12/31/2009 8:44:18 AM PST by hellbender
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To: markomalley

Are you kidding. This only points out the contrast between true accomplishments as opposed to bull-oney.


7 posted on 12/31/2009 8:51:39 AM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Carley
Are you kidding. This only points out the contrast between true accomplishments as opposed to bull-oney.

I'm afraid I'm a little cynical with any dealings between Øbama and the Church.

8 posted on 12/31/2009 9:21:22 AM PST by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: marshmallow; netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; markomalley; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; ...

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa stamp

With this stamp, the U.S. Postal Service recognizes Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. Noted for her compassion toward the poor and suffering, Mother Teresa, a diminutive Roman Catholic nun and honorary U.S. citizen, served the sick and destitute of India and the world for nearly 50 years. Her humility and compassion, as well as her respect for the innate worth and dignity of humankind, inspired people of all ages and backgrounds to work on behalf of the world’s poorest populations.

Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian, was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on Aug. 26, 1910, in Skopje in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. Drawn to the religious life as a young girl, she left her home at the age of 18 to serve as a Roman Catholic missionary in India. “By then I realized my vocation was towards the poor,” she later said. “From then on, I have never had the least doubt of my decision.” Having adopted the name of Sister Mary Teresa, she arrived in India in 1929 and underwent initial training in religious life at a convent in Darjeeling, north of Calcutta. Two years later, she took temporary vows as a nun before transferring to a convent in Calcutta. She became known as Mother Teresa in 1937, when she took her final vows.

Following a divine inspiration and deeply moved by the poverty and suffering she saw in the streets of Calcutta, Mother Teresa left her teaching post at the convent in 1948 to devote herself completely to the city’s indigent residents. Two years later, she founded her own congregation, the Missionaries of Charity. Like Mother Teresa, the nuns of the new order wore white saris with a blue border rather than traditional nuns’ habits. In addition to the traditional vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty, they took a fourth vow of wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor. “In order to understand and help those who have nothing,” Mother Teresa told the young women, “we must live like them.”

When Mother Teresa accepted the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize—one of her numerous honors and distinctions—she did so “in the name of the poor, the hungry, the sick and the lonely,” and convinced the organizers to donate to the needy the money normally used to fund the awards banquet. Well respected worldwide, she successfully urged many of the world’s business and political leaders to give their time and resources to help those in need. President Ronald Reagan presented Mother Teresa with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985, the same year she began work on behalf of AIDS sufferers in the U.S. and other countries. In 1997, Congress awarded Mother Teresa the Congressional Gold Medal for her “outstanding and enduring contributions through humanitarian and charitable activities.”

Mother Teresa died in Calcutta on September 5, 1997, and is buried there. She had been a citizen of India since 1948.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton and the U.S. Congress awarded Mother Teresa honorary U.S. citizenship. As of February 2009, the honor has only been bestowed on five others. Winston Churchill received it in 1963, Raoul Wallenberg in 1981, William Penn and Hannah Callowhill Penn in 1984, and the Marquis de Lafayette in 2002. With the exception of Hannah Callowhill Penn, each of these figures has also appeared on a U.S. postage stamp: the Marquis de Lafayette four times (1952, 1957, 1976, and 1977), William Penn in 1932, Churchill in 1965, and Wallenberg in 1997.

The stamp features a portrait of Mother Teresa painted by award-winning artist Thomas Blackshear II of Colorado Springs, CO.

9 posted on 12/31/2009 10:37:50 AM PST by NYer ("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone" - Benedict XVI)
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To: marshmallow
US Postal Service Honors Mother Teresa With Stamp

Wow. I guess she's arrived, hunh?

10 posted on 12/31/2009 10:49:33 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (if you can read this you're too close.)
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To: marshmallow

I love her! I’ll buy her stamps and use them as often as I can. Unfortunately, I rarely use the USPS anymore. I don’t care if honorary stamps are tacky or cheesy. I’ll buy them.


11 posted on 12/31/2009 2:44:06 PM PST by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: NYer

I gave my daughter the middle name Teresa 28 years ago because I knew she was going to be a saint someday. What an inspiration she was— and what a tireless worker for the dignity of each individual.


12 posted on 12/31/2009 6:27:13 PM PST by Melian ("Here's the moral of the story: Catholic witness has a cost." ~Archbishop Charles Chaput)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Mother Teresa was very humble. I think she would be mortified at this.


13 posted on 12/31/2009 8:23:18 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: marshmallow
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14 posted on 12/31/2009 8:25:58 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Venturer
Mother Theresa was four square against abortion.
I will buy these stamps , happily

So will I!!

15 posted on 12/31/2009 8:39:31 PM PST by SuziQ
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