Something Beautiful For God by Malcolm Muggeridge

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

MOTHER TERESA SPEAKS

MALCOLM

Mother Teresa, when did all this begin with you? I don't mean just your house here. But when did the feeling that you must dedicate yourself to poor people come to you?

MOTHER TERESA

It was many years ago when I was at home with my people.

MALCOLM

Where was that?

MOTHER TERESA

In Skopje in Yugoslavia. I was only twelve years old then. I lived at home and with my parents; we children used to go to a non-Catholic school but we also had very good priests who were helping the boys and the girls to follow their vocation according to the call of God. It was then that I first knew I had a vocation to the poor.

MALCOLM

That was when it all started.

MOTHER TERESA

Yes, in 1922.

MALCOLM

It was then you decided your life was not to be one of pleasing yourself, but was to be given to God in a very special way.

MOTHER TERESA

I wanted to be a missionary, I wanted to go out and give the life of Christ to the people in the missionary countries. At that time some missionaries had gone to India from Yugoslavia. They told me the Loreto nuns were doing work in Calcutta and other places. I offered myself to go out to the Bengal Mission, and from there they sent me to India in 1929.

MALCOLM

When did you take your final vows?

MOTHER TERESA

I took the first vows in Loreto in 1931. Then in 1937 I took final vows in Loreto.

MALCOLM

Between the age of twelve and taking your final vows did you have any doubts, any hesitations about taking on this very difficult way of life?

MOTHER TERESA

At the beginning, between twelve and eighteen I didn't want to become a nun. We were a very happy family. But when I was eighteen, I decided to leave my home and become a nun, and since then, this forty years, I've never doubted even for a second that I've done the right thing; it was the will of God. It was his choice.

MALCOLM

And this has given you complete peace and happiness.

MOTHER TERESA

The happiness that no one can take from me. And there has never been a doubt or any unhappiness.

MALCOLM

When you were in Loreto you were teaching. Did you like teaching?

MOTHER TERESA

I love teaching most of all. At Loreto I was in charge of a school in the Bengali department. At that time most of the girls that are now with me were girls in school. I was teaching them.

MALCOLM

And all this came to an end when you became aware of certain circumstances in the world outside.

MOTHER TERESA

It was a call within my vocation. It was a second calling. It was a vocation to give up even Loreto where I was very happy and to go out in the streets to serve the poorest of the poor.

MALCOLM

Mother, how did it happen, the second vocation?

MOTHER TERESA

In 1946 I was going to Darjeeling, to make my retreat. It was in that train, I heard the call to give up all and follow him into the slums to serve him among the poorest of the poor.

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