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Who is Mother Theresa?

pcran01 — 2019-03-11 02:41:06 UTC

Mother Theresa is an Albanian-Indian. She was born in Uskub, Ottoman Empire on the 26^th of August 1910. Her full name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Mother Theresa was a nun who became a saint. She is best known for helping the needy, sick, poor and dying people of India, so this is called a humanitarian. Before Theresa devoted her life to helping the needy, she was a geography teacher in Calcutta, now known as Kolkata. When Mother Theresa was 39, she felt God send her a call to fight for the rights of the sick and helpless. She received some basic medical training and then set out to help the sick and needy (Ducksters, 2019). Accomplishing this was tough though and she was begging for food, not only for the poor but also for herself, at this time. In 1979, Mother Theresa was awarded the Noble Peace Prize for her good deeds and selfless attitude. Sadly, she died in 1997 on September 5^th.

How is she Truly Radical?

pcran01 — 2019-03-11 02:41:45 UTC

Mother Theresa encouraged a more open-minded worldview than others as she opened her heart to help the poorest people of India. Unlike the rest of the population, where they ignored and refused to help these needy people, Theresa went out of her way to make sure everyone lived equally. Mother Theresa challenged poverty. In 1950, in Kolkata, India, she opened her first missionary which she called “The Missionaries of Charity.” By 2013, there were 700 missions operating in over 130 countries (Biography Online, n.d.). She had opened many homes for abandoned babies and dying people as well. Mother Theresa cared for people that were covered in lice, lying in their vomit and were slowly dying and people would ask her; what is the point of keeping them alive a little longer. She would reply that; “we want to make them feel that, at the end, somebody loves them, they have lived like animals but now die like angels.” In these homes, Mother Theresa would clean, wash, feed, hydrate, care and give love to the dying people. Although Mother Theresa made caring for these people look effortless, she too struggled in the process. For many years, Mother Theresa and the nuns who helped her had to beg for money and were surviving on little food and profits. Mother Theresa would not have offended anyone along her journey, but she would have impacted a lot of people’s lives in a positive way.

What worldview did they have to challenge?

pcran01 — 2019-03-11 02:42:58 UTC

The majority of the Indian populations worldview was that if they were happy and their family was happy, that’s all that mattered. Why bother caring for the dying people when they were going to die soon anyway? Why keep them alive a little bit longer? While they had quite a selfish and close-minded worldview, Mother Theresa believed that everyone should be loved as love is what brings world peace. “the hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” Mother Theresa was Catholic and her religion influenced her to make change because of the message she received from God. She felt a call from God to help the dying people, which was – “to serve him amongst the poorest of poor," and she acted upon it. She would often state a saying from Jesus, which was, “whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.” In some secret letters of Mother Theresa’s, there was something written about how she felt disconnected from God, like he had abandoned her, for about 50 years. But, she never lost faith in him and she continued her work of helping the poor.

What is most inspiring about Mother Theresa

pcran01 — 2019-03-11 02:48:11 UTC

I have found Mother Theresa very inspiring, compassionate, considerate, empathetic, selfless and generous. The thing I have found most inspiring about Mother Theresa was her ability to completely change her life, for others, and perform selfless acts that didn’t exactly benefit her. She fought against poverty, she helped the dying, sick and needy, she cared for abandoned babies and she fought against a worldview that was seen by millions of people. I found it most inspiring that Mother Theresa was able to follow her heart and even though there was a possibility that she could get sick, injured, or hurt by people that supported the opposite worldview, she still did it anyway. Mother Theresa has only challenged my worldview a little bit as I already wanted to help the poor and make them feel equal, no matter what conditions they are in. But, Mother Theresa has also now shown me that it is not all about giving them food, water and shelter, but love as well, because love is what brings world peace. I believe she has now challenged me to make a difference in this world too. Mother Theresa is definitely a truly radical person.

Bibliography

pcran01 — 2019-03-11 02:49:12 UTC

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