How Two Future Saints Inspired a Writer — and a Princess
COMMENTARY: Robert Louis Stevenson and Princess Diana each found themselves transformed by encounters, direct or indirect, with St. Damien of Molokai and St. Teresa of Calcutta.
COMMENTARY: Robert Louis Stevenson and Princess Diana each found themselves transformed by encounters, direct or indirect, with St. Damien of Molokai and St. Teresa of Calcutta.
Presently, the congregation has 754 homes in 138 countries, with 5,076 nuns serving the poorest of the poor,
The Church celebrates the feast day of St. Teresa of Calcutta on Sept. 5.
COMMENTARY: Women like Sts. Helen, Monica, Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Calcutta are reminders that, more than anything else, what the Church, the world, and all men, women and children need is simple.
Sept. 5 is also observed as Teachers Day in India.
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St. Teresa of Calcutta treated each individual with dignity and love, and her every encounter began with a smile.
Recognizing, adoring, loving and receiving Jesus in the Holy Eucharist propelled her to recognize, love, welcome and care for him under even the most distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor.
The bishops voted to include her feast day as an optional memorial that could be celebrated in the Mass on Sept. 5, the anniversary of St. Teresa of Calcutta’s death.
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