I'm a Graduate Now What? by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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It is possible to give freely and become more wealthy, but those who are stingy will lose everything.

PROVERBS 11:24 NLT

Meet the Dream Weavers

It was in the train I heard the call to give up all and follow Him to the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor.

Mother Teresa

The homeless, disease ridden, poor, and wretched—these were the people Mother Teresa longed to help. Serving God as a Catholic nun, she took her faith to the streets to rescue the perishing and love the unlovable.

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Yugoslavia in 1910, she left home at eighteen to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin. It was then she took the name Teresa, after Saint Teresa of Ávila and Thérèse of Lisieux, the patroness of missionaries. Later, she gained still another title, “the saint of the gutters.”

As a novitiate of the order in Dublin, she learned English and then moved to Calcutta, India, where she taught history to young women for fifteen years.

In 1946 she went to Darjeeling to recover from tuberculosis. It was aboard the train that she heard God’s call. After securing permission from Rome, she left the convent and headed for the slums.

She was willing to tend to the poorest and weakest—those sick and old who were abandoned in the streets of Calcutta to die. She searched for them and carried them in her arms to her home where she tended each like she would have tended her own parents. She nursed the diseased, comforted the dying, and fed and cared for outcasts—cripples and lepers.

In 1950 she started the Missionaries of Charity, a group of nuns who also had hearts to work with the sick and dying. Mother Teresa started her first home for the dying in Calcutta and later a leper colony. She established many orphanages, hospitals, and treatment centers. Mother Teresa became ill with heart disease and died in 1997, yet the order she led carries on the work among the poor.

Mother Teresa followed her passion to serve God by serving those who couldn’t help themselves.

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