MOTHER TERESA (AGNES GONDZHA BOYADJIEV)

(1910-1997)

Founder and Superior of the Catholic Order of Mercy (India, 1950). In various countries, has built schools, medical centers, shelters for the poor. Nobel Peace Prize (1979).

"Lord God, yes filled with dignity, we serve our brothers, people around the world, living and dying in hunger and poverty. Give the same to them, O Lord, their daily bread from our hands, and his love of our souls, give them joy and peace. " This prayer of Mother Teresa, together with their "Missionary of Charity" to start each day.

Asceticism, charity, sacrifice always evoked awe in society, dictated by a lack of understanding - if life is unique and unique, then how can devote all others, so even with strangers. In fact, someone has still not been able to compare the degree of "happy" those who every day, shaking with fear for their future well-being or satiety own fumes, and those who are "living like a bird of God", has no wealth and distributes their worries among strangers. Anxious not about one person, but of many, the ascetic leaves your heart healthy, mind clear, and life is quite meaningful. He has no need to wake up at night with fear for the fate of the child left the house growing up or look for unusual locks for chests with junk. "Children" from him - "the darkness and the darkness", and wealth and does no. And nothing to worry about. And if you want to recall at least one lucky woman, you can not go wrong, calling Mother Teresa.

Its principle of life was simple: each person embodies Jesus, and if so - then everyone has the right to compassion and love. Those that love received from others with a vengeance, our heroine is not interested, she drew his attention to those who own weakness was thrown out by society. Leitmotif of its doctrine and asceticism were the words of Christ: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these my brethren, you did it to me. " Serving disadvantaged Mother Teresa perceived as serving Jesus.

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It is one thing, holding his nose in disgust, wash the tramp with garbage, another - imagine that your ward - not an easy drinker, and Elect of the higher power, which should give warmth. Just forget about unpleasant odors, and life will find a clear meaning. "And here we touch his body - Mother Teresa taught their charges the Sisters of Mercy. - Here are the hungry Christ, and we feed him, so naked Christ, and we dress, now homeless Christ, and we give him a home . . . "In short, if any, even the most painful matter to sanctify love, it becomes a burden joyful purpose of existence.

The desire to "deal with the absurdity of the world in which mortal men seek only to appease his own flesh, came from the girl of Agnes in a very young age. At twelve years of the Albanian grocer′s daughter from the city of Skopje (Macedonia) already knew that it somehow should devote his life to God. However, the journey of service - to become a nun - Agnes aroused passionate protest. She was disgusted retreat from the people behind the high walls of the monastery, and the concern for the salvation of his own soul in the quiet monastic cells seemed to be just as selfish as vigilant vigil to protect their own wealth. At eighteen she left the warm, cozy, friendly family home and joined the missionary order "Loretskih sisters. Since then it became the abode of the corners, where the pain and suffering greater than usual degree of the earth.

Spent some time in Dublin, she started to probation in India - a country known for its incredible poverty and destitution. Initially, Mother Teresa almost twenty years since 1929 has taught geography at the Calcutta Institute of St. . Mary. During this time she has achieved a lot "on the official part" - became the director of the Institute, led the Indian Order of the Daughters of St. . Anna "and even reunited with his" Loretskimi sisters. But all of this dimensions, even ascetic, no-nonsense, life seemed to her part-time, unreal.

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And once, in 1948, Director, successfully completed another academic year, instead of well-deserved vacation decided to radically change their way of life. According to legend, telling the students of Mother Teresa, our heroine had heard the "call" to leave his post and follow Jesus in the slums to serve him through the poorest, and adopted the "call" without hesitation. However, the other, "nechudesnogo, explaining the sudden entry into the road of asceticism is difficult to expect from the faithful disciples of Mother Teresa.

She wrote a letter to Pope Pius XII. The Holy Father did not deter his selfless zeal correspondent and allowed to leave the monastery. However, the end of the official career has opened for Mother Teresa′s own path to understanding of God. Some medical skills she has learned quickly from their "loretskih Sisters", a passionate commitment to helping the most fallen and five rupees in his pocket - with the "capital" Mother Teresa four months later returned to Calcutta. His refuge, she chose an abandoned house in the urban slums, and began gathering here of street children.

Gradually, the school acquired a reputation philanthropist. Rumors that the little woman with no means of livelihood, without any material support to dare to shelter dozens of abandoned boys and girls, struck the city public. Such dedication from someone aroused anger, someone admired, and someone willing to come and nourish their own issyakshie force. Filled with misery and suffering of Mother Teresa′s house became a haven not only materially disadvantaged, but also the spiritual "health" disappointed and lost their life orientation people. Here they could return to faith in the goodness and justice, here they became someone needs. Attracts philanthropists from around the world. Anyone who wanted otmolit own sins, could be sure - his money will go to those who suffer the most, the most disadvantaged.

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But selfless Mother Teresa spends only on street children and the organization of schools. She assumed the worst, perhaps, a mission - to help the dying to go in another world. Calcutta - the city streets which is killing hundreds of the poor, it is a conglomeration of the incredible poverty and disease. The first woman selected Mother Teresa directly at the mud-stained pavement, was eaten by rats and ants, but still alive. This semi-corpses nobody wanted to take even the most modest hospital. Why? Tramp has not help, but to wait until she dies - too expensive, and better to treat others who do not reside in such a deplorable condition. But Mother Teresa was not defeated, and stated that she will not abandon the unhappy until she dies. Thus began the "home for the dying poor, which opened in 1965.

She asked the municipality to allocate it a place where we could be was taken to the dying. She was given an empty temple dedicated to Hindu goddess Kali, the symbol of the Universal Mother, podatelnitsu life and death. But our heroine was a woman without a Christian bias, the interests of the charity she set above any religious ambitions, and in twenty-four hours a former Hindu temple was filled with patients, most of whom were dying.

Experience selfless Mother Teresa can be called unique in the XX century, the only of its kind. Modern philanthropists, treated kindly in the rays of glory, prefer to lend a variety of foundations and associations are certain sums of money, assuming that financial aid - the most necessary for the poor devils who have lost their social orientations. Mother Teresa returned to the life of a truly Christian understanding of charity - the creation of good "no money, no surplus of wealth, and the cost of his own soul. She never sought to extend the life of the dying, its sole purpose was to surround the suffering with love and care that people knew - he needs someone. "effectiveness" of their "sisters" Mother Teresa checked very peculiar way.

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If people moved away to another world peaceful and joyful, accepted his fate without complaint and resistance, then the mission "Home for the dying" was considered to be implemented. Everyone, even the most recent, ugly, little resembling a rational creature, poor devil must be taken for what it is, and love him so, without trying to fix - this is the true love of God. It was of Mother Teresa.

"One time we brought one person. He howled and moaned, and he did not want to die. His spine was broken in three places, his body was covered with horrible wounds. His sufferings were terrible. But he did not want to see the sisters. He did not want to die.

He was given huge doses of morphine and love, he was told about the sufferings of Him who loved him more than anyone in the world.

Gradually he began to listen and receive love. The last time he refused morphine because they wanted to unite with the man who saved him. "

The extent of charity of Mother Teresa impressive. If her understanding of philanthropy brings us back to medieval times, the size of its assistance seem truly space-based global. Simultaneously in Calcutta alone in a rehabilitation center for leprosy victims were treated and studied a variety of homework 10000 people. And how many patients she has helped their mobile clinics, which traveled all over India. Leprosy - a terrible affliction, which deprives people of their human appearance, puts them in a position of outcasts. Even relatives and friends are trying to quickly get rid of such patients. That is why Mother Teresa demanded from the "sisters" to a leper, they were smiling, so that people felt above all a man needed somebody.

The merit of our heroine is not only a personal feat, but that she was able to draw in their faith a galaxy of young women. Education of those who decided to devote himself to charity, lasted nine years. However, this is understandable. It is difficult without special training to maintain their mental equilibrium among the endless stream of filth, suffering, cruelty, and even with that and not get tired to love those fragments of humanity that barely managed to discern in this garbage.

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Vows sisters Mother Teresa has issued a special list:

"bodily and spiritual health.

Ability to acquire knowledge.

Sanity in its entirety.

Spirits.

Poverty, innocence and humility.

Humility - is freedom. "

Strength of their deeds Mother Teresa drew in the extraordinary sense of the world - life itself is a wonderful gift and use it for their own purposes meaningless and insulting. Must obey life - listen to what they give you to hear, look at what you suggest, to understand what others think, to accept what he has. Obey - then discard any ego, any personal interests which are necessarily threatening to turn into small, even if today they seem to be extraordinarily important.

Each morning, Mother Teresa started with several hours of meditation, then listen to mass. For her, these procedures were similar to normal everyday hygiene regulations. Someone starts the day with clean teeth, and Mother Teresa could not go out to people, not pre-brushing your soul on the personal ambitions and human malice, that were superimposed in the atmosphere. But when she and her faithful "sisters" appeared on the street, the joy exuded from their eyes and poured on the terrible, dirty streets, the disgusting, hostile, drunken faces.

Today the Order of Mother Teresa has grown around the world, her nurses are working in Venezuela, Rome, Tanzania, Australia, Jordan, Mauritius, Yemen, Peru, New York.

Already in the dying Mother Teresa was asked: "Has your life on weekends or holidays?"

Yes! - She replied. - I have every day - a holiday! "