According to Times of London, because of “Mother Teresa’s compassion, and humility, It’s said, shrewd eye for publicity she raised public concern for the destitute; by devoting herself with single-minded vigor to the relief of human suffering, she galvanized individuals, both believers and non-believers, and even governments into action” (“Mother Teresa Times of London” 2). Mother Teresa was a hero because she was a humanitarian.
When Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, her parents named her Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was born in the city of Skopje but her parents came from Albania (Sullivan 8). There were three children in her family, and she was the youngest. Mother Teresa had a very happy and comfortable childhood until her father died (9). “When Agnes became a teenager she liked to spend time at church. She joined a youth group that helped the priests, nuns, and other members of the parish. Suddenly, an idea came to her; she thought about traveling to far-off countries to do God’s work. One of her parish priests told her to listen to God’s voice speaking inside of her. He also told her that if she felt happiness in her heart she was making the right decision. She felt deep down that she was being called to tell the whole world about God” (11). “She decided to leave her home and family which wasn’t easy but she wanted to be able to give her whole life to others, by taking the church as her home and all people as her family” (12). Many years later, Mother Teresa said “I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.” “She was a mother to the world. Her heart belonged to God, while she used ...
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... such a loving and caring person that always tried her best to help the poor and the sick people. She prepared to work with the poor by taking an intensive medical training with the American Medical Missionary Sisters in Patna, India (“Mother Teresa” 5). They also opened a home for orphans and abandoned children (7). Reading about Mother Teresa she was beautiful and she was like a magnet to metal. Her kindness, tenderness, and holiness shone from her like sunset.
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St. Teresa was born in Avila, Spain on March 28, 1515. She was baptized as Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y Ahumada. At a young age she would often give gifts to the poor and pray. Her father and her mother were both Catholics which inspired her to do the same. Her father was a very strict man a demanded her to never lie, while her mother told her to lie and comforted her. This created a ton of turmoil in the family and made St. Teresa end up loving her mother more due to her father’s severe strictness. St. Teresa felt that everything she was doing was wrong. During her teens her mother passed away leaving her to deal with her father by herself and she was relieved of some of the pain by turning to the Virgin Mary for comfort. In her late teen years
Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, better known as St. Teresa of Avila, was a Spanish Catholic Saint and Carmelite nun who was most prominently known for her journey towards contemplative life through mental prayer. In her reflective and analytical autobiography, The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel, Teresa reflects on her interactions with others as a child, as a woman and as a nun, and bases her opinion of her own freedom and free will on these reflections. In this paper, I will argue the dual nature of freedom in Teresa’s life; on the one hand, Teresa is free in that she breaks free from the traditional role of the woman and society’s honour codes- despite citing honour as providing some guidance in her life-,
Teresa Sánchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada lived in Avila, Spain where she was born in 1515 and lived during the Reformation until her death at age 67. She was canonized in 1622, forty years after her death. St. Teresa's grandmother was forced to be converted from a Jew into a Christian during the Inquisition. Without her grandmother’s conversion St. Teresa would never have become a Christian saint. Her parents were Godly people and showed tremendous integrity. They always said their prayers and made sure their twelve children did also. Sadly, at the age of twelve, St. Teresa's mother died giving birth which created a fear in St. Teresa of getting married. St. Teresa had a special relationship with one of her nine brothers named Rodrigo. St. Teresa once said, “When I read about certain women saints who endured martyrdom for the sake of God, I concluded that death was a small price to pay for the utter joy they were given in return when they were whisked away to heaven” (Starr, 2007, p.6). Rodrigo taught St. Teresa all about chivalry and they spent many hours reading about the lives of saints, never thinking St. Teresa would accomplish just that. As a girl, St. Teresa strived to be worthy of God, as did her siblings whom she loved. Instead of acting like she was a princess with the other girls, her and her brother Rodri...
...tive techniques to get her point across. Her story was very powerful and probably helped in the antislavery movement, therefore fulfilling her goal. In the end she is thought of as a "new kind of female hero" (497). She has gone through many hardships
But a biography is one place where we would expect to find a perfectly impartial story. We want to know the good and the bad side of a person. Malcolm Muggeridge, however, mostly conveys the good side of Mother Teresa. He holds her in such high opinion that he convinces everyone that she is saintly. To be a good biography though, it must encompass all sides of a character, including the flaws. In Something Beautiful for God, Malcolm claims that, “There are few things I should rather do than please her” (Muggeridge, 54), and that he would even enter the church if “…it would give happiness to Mother Teresa” (Muggeridge, 58). To Malcolm, Mother Teresa was perfect. And he conveys that in the book. If the reader were to only read this book on Mother Teresa, they would never know her true beliefs and principles. They would not know that she believed that Mary was the mediator between God and ourselves. They would not know that she believed that all religions will lead to the same God. They would not know that she believed that suffering is spiritual value and that she would not prescribe pain killers telling her patients that they are suffering like Christ. Overall, this book would not tell you who Mother Teresa really was. It’s true that Mother Teresa brought light to parts of the world that no one would dare go, but it’s also true that Mother Teresa taught a false religion. Something Beautiful for God then is not a true
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... she addressed many problems of her time in her writings. She was an inspirational person for the feminism movements. In fact, she awoke women’s awareness about their rights and freedom of choice. She was really a great woman.
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Mother Teresa should have helped the poor for three reason. Mother Teresa was called to minister to the poor by God, she would help the children of the poor, and she would reflect the love of Christ to the outside...
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”- Mother Teresa. Despite the importance of assisting the poor, Mother Teresa was serious about abortion, as this was an injustice to the unborn and encroaching on human morals. Though, this is a sensitive subject, Mother Teresa doesn't hesitate to bring it to others attention. Any like minded individual would agree, right? Sadly, this is still a ongoing debate, But did Mother Teresa inspire the masses to being open-minded about human