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 Mother Teresa

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__** Table of Contents **__
 * Acceptance Speech**
 * 1.) Early Life**
 * 2.) Adult Life**
 * 3.) Missonaries**
 * 4.) Work in India**
 * 5.) Mother Teresa stories**
 * 6.) Google Earth Tour**
 * 7.) PSA**
 * 8.) Prizes and Awards**
 * 9.) Timeline**
 * 10.)** **Why she should win the Ultimate Nobel Peace Prize**

Peace Prize Medal []

__**Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech **__

As we have gathered here together to thank God for the Nobel Peace Prize, I think it will be beautiful that we pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi which always surprises me very much. We pray this prayer every day after Holy Communion, because it is very fitting for each one of us.

And I always wonder that 400-500 years ago when St. Francis of Assisi composed this prayer, they had the same difficulties that we have today as we compose this prayer that fits very nicely for us also. I think some of you already have got it - so we pray together: Let us thank God for the opportunity that we all have together today, for this gift of peace that reminds us that we have been created to live that peace, and that Jesus became man to bring that good news to the poor.

He, being God, became man in all things like us except in sin, and he proclaimed very clearly that he had come to give the good news. The news was peace to all of good will and this is something that we all want - the peace of heart. And God loved the world so much that he gave his son - it was a giving: it is as much as if to say it hurt God to give, because he loved the world so much that he gave his son. He gave him to the Virgin Mary, and what did she do with him?

As soon as he came in her life, immediately she went in haste to give that good news, and as she came into the house of her cousin, the child - the child in the womb of Elizabeth, lept with joy. He was, that little unborn child was, the first messenger of peace. He recognized the Prince of Peace, he recognized that Christ had come to bring the good news for you and for me.

And as if that was not enough - it was not enough to become a man - he died on the cross to show that greater love, and he died for you and for me and for that leper and for that man dying of hunger and that naked person lying in the street not only of Calcutta, but of Africa, and New York, and London, and Oslo - and insisted that we love one another as he loves each one of us.

And we read that in the Gospel very clearly: "love as I have loved you; as I love you; as the Father has loved me, I love you." And the harder the Father loved him, he gave him to us, and how much we love one another, we too must give to each other until it hurts. It is not enough for us to say: "I love God, but I do not love my neighbor." Saint John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbor.

How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live? And so this is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. It hurt Jesus to love us. It hurt him. And to make sure we remember his great love, he made himself the bread of life to satisfy our hunger for his love - our hunger for God - because we have been created for that love. We have been created in his image.

We have been created to love and to be loved, and he has become man to make it possible for us to love as he loved us. He makes himself the hungry one, the naked one, the homeless one, and he says: " You did it to me". he is hungry for our love, and this is the hunger that you and I must find. It may be in our own home. I never forget an opportunity I had in visiting a home where they had all these old parents of sons and daughters who had just put them in an institution and forgotten, maybe.

And I went there, and I saw in that home they had everything, beautiful things, but everybody was looking towards the door. And I did not see a singe one with a smile on their face. And I turned to the sister and I asked: How is that? How is that these people who have everything here, why are they all looking towards the door? Why are they not smiling? I am so used to see the smiles on our people, even the dying ones smile. And she said: "This is nearly every day.

They are expecting, they are hoping that a son or daughter will come to visit them. They are hurt because they are forgotten." And see - this is where love comes. That poverty comes right there in our own home, even neglect to love. Maybe in our own family we have somebody who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried, and there are difficult days for everybody. Are we there?

Are we there to Receive them? Is themotherthere to receive the child? I was surprised in the West to see so many young boys and girls given into drugs. And I tried to find out why. Why is it like that? And the answer was: "Because there is no one in the family to receive them." Father andmotherare so busy they have no time. Young parents are in some institution and the child goes back to the street and gets involved in something.

We are talking of peace. These are things that break peace. But I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing, direct murder by themotherherself. And we read in the scripture, for God says very clearly: "Even if amothercould forget her child, I will not forget you. I have curved you in the palm of my hand." We are curved in the palm of his hand; so close to him, that unborn child has been curved in the hand of God.

And that is what strikes me most, the beginning of that sentence, that even if amothercould forget, something impossible - but even if she could forget - I will not forget you. And today the greatest means, the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion. And we who are standing here - our parents wanted us. We would not be here if our parents would do that to us. Our children, we want them, we love them.

But what of the other millions. Many people are very, very concerned with the children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of themother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if amothercan kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. And this I appeal in India, I appeal everywhere - "Let us bring the child back" - and this year being the child's year: What have we done for the child?

At the beginning of the year I told, I spoke everywhere and I said: let us ensure this year that we make every single child born, and unborn, wanted. And today is the end of the year. Have we really made the children wanted? I will tell you something terrifying. We are fighting abortion by adoption. We have saved thousands of lives. We have sent word to all the clinics, to the hospitals, police stations: "Please don't destroy the child; we will take the child".

So every hour of the day and night there is always somebody - we have quite a number of unweddedmothers - tell them: "Come, we will take care of you, we will take care of the child from you, and we will get a home for the child". And we have a tremendous demand for families who have no children, that is the blessing of God for us. And also, we are doing another thing which is very beautiful. We are teaching our beggars, our leprosy patients, our slum dwellers, our people of the street, natural family planning.

And in Calcutta alone in six years - it is all in Calcutta - we have had 61 273 babies less from the families who would have had them because they practice this natural way of abstaining, of self-control, out of love for each other. We teach them the temperature method which is very beautiful, very simple. And our poor people understand. And you know what they have told me? "Our family is healthy, our family is united, and we can have a baby whenever we want".

So clear - those people in the street, those beggars - and I think that if our people can do like that how much more you and all the others who can know the ways and means without destroying the life that God has created in us. The poor people are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things. The other day one of them came to thank us and said: "You people who have evolved chastity; you are the best people to teach us family planning because it is nothing more than self-control out of love for each other."

And I think they said a beautiful sentence. And these are people who maybe have nothing to eat, maybe they have not a home where to live, but they are great people. The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition. And I told the sisters: "You take care of the other three; I will take care of this one that looks worse." So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face.

She took hold of my hand, as she said one word only: "thank you" - and she died. I could not help but examine my conscience before her. And I asked: "What would I say if I was in her place?" And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself. I would have said: "I am hungry, I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain", or something. But she gave me much more - she gave me her grateful love.

And she died with a smile on her face - like that man who we picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home - "I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for." And it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel - this is the greatness of our people.

And this is why we believe what Jesus has said: "I was hungry; I was naked, I was homeless; I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for - and you did it to me." I believe that we are not really social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of people. But we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world. For we are touching the body of Christ twenty-four hours. We have twenty-four hours in his presence, and so you and I. You too must try to bring that presence of God into your family, for the family that prays together stays together.

And I think that we in our family, we don't need bombs and guns, to destroy or to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world. There is so much suffering, so much hatred, so much misery, and we with our prayer, with our sacrifice are beginning at home. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

It is to God almighty - how much we do does not matter, because he is infinite, but how much love we put in action. How much we do to him in the person that we are serving. Some time ago in Calcutta we had great difficulty in getting sugar. And I don't know how the word got around to the children, and a little boy of four years old, a Hindu boy, went home and told his parents: "I will not eat sugar for three days.

I will give my sugar toMotherTeresafor her children." After these three days his father andmotherbrought him to our house. I had never met them before, and this little one could scarcely pronounce my name. But he knew exactly what he had come to do. He knew that he wanted to share his love. And this is why I have received such a lot of love from all. From the time that I have come here I have simply been surrounded with love, and with real, real understanding love.

It could feel as if everyone in India, everyone in Africa is somebody very special for to you. And I felt quite home, I was telling Sister today. If feel in the convent with the Sisters as if I am in Calcutta with my own Sisters. So completely at home here, right here. And so here I am talking with you. I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people. And find out about your next-door neighbor.

Do you know who they are? I had the most extraordinary experience with a Hindu family who had eight children. A gentleman came to our house and said: "MotherTeresa, there is a family with eight children; they have not eaten for so long; do something". So I took some rice and I went there immediately. And I saw the children - their eyes shining with hunger. I don't know if you have ever seen hunger. But I have seen it very often.

And she took the rice, she divided the rice, and she went out. When she came back I asked her: "Where did you go, what did you do?" And she gave me a very simple answer: "They are hungry also". What struck me most was that she knew - and who are they? a Muslim family - and she knew. I didn't bring more rice that evening because I wanted them to enjoy the joy of sharing. But there were those children radiating joy, sharing the joy with theirmotherbecause she had the love to give.

And you see this is where love begins - at home. And I want you - and I am very grateful for what I have received. It has been a tremendous experience and I go back to India - I will be back by next week, the 15th I hope, and I will be able to bring your love. And I know well that you have not given from your abundance, but you have given until it has hurt you. Today the little children, they gave - I was so surprised - there is so much joy for the children that are hungry.

That the children like themselves will need love and get so much from their parents. So let us thank God that we have had this opportunity to come to know each other, and that this knowledge of each other has brought us very close. And we will be able to help the children of the whole world, because as you know our Sisters are all over the world. And with this prize that I have received as a prize of peace, I am going to try to make the home for many people that have no home.

Because I believe that love begins at home, and if we can create a home for the poor, I think that more and more love will spread. And we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace, be the good news to the poor. The poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world. To be able to do this, our Sisters, our lives have to be woven with prayer. They have to be woven with Christ to be able to understand, to be able to share. Today, there is so much suffering and I feel that the passion of Christ is being relived all over again.

Are we there to share that passion, to share that suffering of people - around the world, not only the poor countries. But I found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society - that poverty is so hurtful and so much, and I find that very difficult.

Our Sisters are working amongst that kind of people in the West. So you must pray for us that we may be able to be that good news. We cannot do that without you. You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people her have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other, naturally we want to do something. So you pray for our Sisters and for me and for our Brothers, and for our Co-Workers that are around the world. Pray that we may remain faithful to the gift of God, to love him and serve him in the poor together with you.

What we have done we would not have been able to do if you did not share with your prayers, with your gifts, this continual giving. But I don't want you to give me from your abundance. I want you to give me until it hurts. The other day I received $15 from a man who has been on his back for twenty years and the only part that he can move is his right hand. And the only companion that he enjoys is smoking.

And he said to me: "I do not smoke for one week, and I send you this money." It must have been a terrible sacrifice for him but see how beautiful, how he shared. And with that money I brought bread and I gave to those who are hungry with a joy on both sides. He was giving and the poor were receiving.

This is something you and I can do - it is a gift of God to us to be able to share our love with others. And let it be able to share our love with others. And let it be as it was for Jesus. Let us love one another as he loved us. Let us love him with undivided love. And the joy of loving him and each other - let us give now that Christmas is coming so close. Let us keep that joy of loving Jesus in our hearts, and share that joy with all that we come in touch with.

That radiating joy with all that we come in touch with. That radiating joy is real, for we have no reason not to be happy because we have Christ with us. Christ in our hearts, Christ in the poor that we meet, Christ in the smile that we give and the smile that we receive. Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted and also that we meet each other always with a smile, especially when it is difficult to smile.

I never forget some time ago about fourteen professors came from the United States from different universities. And they came to Calcutta to our house. Then we were talking about the fact that they had been to the home for the dying. (We have a home for the dying in Calcutta, where we have picked up more than 36 000 people only from the streets of and out of that big number more than 18 000 have died a beautiful death. They have just gone home to God). And they came to our house and we talked of love, of compassion.

And then one of them asked me: "Say, Mother, please tell us something that we will remember". And I said to them: "Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. Smile at each other." And then another one asked me: "Are you married?" and I said: "Yes, and I find it sometimes very difficult to smile at Jesus because he can be very demanding sometimes". This is really something true. And there is where love comes - when it is demanding, and yet we can give it to him with joy.

Just as I have said today, I have said that if I don't go to heaven for anything else I will be going to heaven for all the publicity because it has purified me and sacrificed me and made me really ready to go to heaven. I think that this is something, that we must live life beautifully, we have Jesus with us and he loves us. If we could only remember that God loves us, and we have an opportunity to love others as he loves us, not in big things, but i small things with great love, then Norway becomes a nest of love.

And how beautiful it will be that from here a center for peace from war has been given. That from here the joy of life of the unborn child comes out. If you become a burning light of peace in the world, then really the Nobel Peace Prize is a gift of the Norwegian people.

God bless you! You will get credit for it.

-Mother Teresa

1.) Early life of Mother Teresa Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia(modern day Macedonia).She was born to her father Kole and mother Dranafile on August 26, 1910. As a child, her given name by her parents was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. While she was growing up she attended a public school in her hometown of Skopje. She recieved a public education all through grade school, as a teenager she stopped going to school and joined a social group that focused on working with foreign missions. In this social group, she began to help the less fortunate. The reason why she decided to join this group is because of her father that died when she was nine. After her father past, the children stopped going to school to help with the house and tried to help their mother. The only thing Agnes(Mother Teresa) had time for was the social group. She loved it and from this group she became very religious. Young Mother Teresa Young Mother Teresa Young Mother Teresa []  []

Time Magazine           2.) Adult Life  __**﻿ **__Mother Teresa spent much of her early adult life being a nun. She was a geography teacher and then a principal for many years. At 36 she finally heard her call. She wanted to help the poorest of the poor. She went and spent two years getting trained as an intensive nurse. After her training she was released from her Loretto Order (her convent). She stepped forward into a new life in Calcutta, India where millions were suffering from poverty. Mother Teresa was dedicated to helping these people. She would often get up at 4am and work until 7:30 pm. Even as an old woman she kept this schedule. Mother Teresa with some admirers Mother Teresa  [] []

3.) Missionaries

Mother Teresa had never thought about becoming a nun. She was a religious child but being a nun did not appeal to her. There was one thing that had caught her eye. This was missionary work. Helping people fascinated the young Agnes. At 18 Mother Teresa decided to join a convent since religion was a significant piece of her life. This was in 1928. She joined the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as the Sisters of Loretto in Ireland. From here Mother Teresa began her own missionary group. She called it The Missionaries of Charity. She started in Calcutta, India and helped the poverty stricken. Mother Teresa had fallen in love with her missionary work. Mother Teresa used her missionary to help orphans, poor individuals, sick and diseased, and the hungry. By the time of Mother Teresa's death, the Missionaries of Charity had spread to 123 countries. It is still growing today.

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4.) Work in India When Mother Teresa joined the convent in Rathfarnam(Dublin), Ireland she was sent to Calcutta, India. While she lived in Calcutta, Sister Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School. After a couple years of teaching students she became the schools principle. However, Mother Teresa could not continue with the Principal position and while she was on the train to Darjeeling, India, she received something that would change her life. She received a call. She recalled that she was suppose to leave the convent and work with the poor. This was a major factor in why she started to work the poor. It was a sign from god that she was suppose to change her life to help people.

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5) Mother Teresa Stories    Many people may not no this but Mother Teresa did not only help the poor. She had a major influence on the Israeli, Palestinian conflict, which is something that even the greatest of world leaders can't handle.
 * __Her impact on Palestinians and Israeli's__**

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Mother Teresa lived to be 87 years old. In those years, she had an amazing impact on the world. Throughout her life she set up missionaries for the less fortunate, they were called Missionaries of Charity. By the time Mother Teresa past away, her missionaries have expanded all over the world to about 126 other countries. They had over 4000 sisters, an associated brotherhood of 300 members.
 * __What her missionaries did.__**

Like many people Mother Teresa did keep a diary. In this she wrote about experiences in her life. The first year she left the convent to help the less fortunate she wrote in her diary that the first year was very difficult. Mother Teresa had no income and had to resort to begging for food and supplies.
 * __Mother Teresa's Diary.__**

She opened missionaries in 126 countries. Mother Teresa began in 1980 throughout the 1990's she opened missionaries in almost every communist country such as the former Soviet Union, Albania and Cuba.
 * __Mother Teresa's Missionaries.__**

In 1963 Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity Brothers.
 * __Missionaries of Charity Brothers.__**

After Mother Teresa's father died when she was eight years old, her mother opened her own seamstress business. Mother Teresa's mother was very much like herself. Kind and giving. When Mother Teresa was young her mother would open their house to people who needed help. She would feed them, give them somewhere warm to sleep and even give them clothes if they needed it.
 * __Her mothers influence__**.

6.) Google Earth Tour 7.) PSA

Some People Mother Teresa has met





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8.) Prizes and Awards Mother Teresa has received numerous prizes and awards. Here are just a few.
 * Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971)
 * Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972)
 * Balzan Prize (1979)
 * Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
 * Templeton Award
 * Magsaysay Award
 * Honorary U.S. citizenship (1996)
 * named 18 times in the yearly Gallup Poll of the most admired men and women (finished first several times in the 1980's and 1990's.)
 * Indian Padmashri Award (1962)

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9.) Timeline

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 *  Aug 27, 1910 - Born as Agnes Gionxhu Bejuxhiu in Skopje in the former Yugoslavia
 *  1928 - Becomes Roman Catholic Loretto nun and begins noviate training in Loretto Abbey, Dublin, Ireland, takes name Sister Teresa
 *  1937 - Takes final vows as a nun
 *  1948 - Permitted to leave order and moves to slums to start school
 *  1948 -Receives medical training in Paris
 *  1950 - Founds the Missionaries of Charity
 *  1957 - Begins her work with lepers for which her order becomes well known around the world
 *  1958 - Order's first facility outside of Calcutta opens in Drachi, India
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1962 - Wins first prize for work among the poor: Padma Shri award
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1965 - The Catholic Church grants the order permission to organize missions outside of India
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1971 - Receives the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and uses the $25,000 to build a leper colony
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1979 - Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for work with destitute and dying
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1982 - Persuades the Israelis and Palestinians to cease fire long enough to rescue 37 retarded children from Beirut
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1983 - Has heart attack while visiting Pope John Paul II
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1985 - Awarded ‘Medal of Freedom’
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1989 - Suffers second heart attack, fitted with pacemaker
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1990 - Re-elected superior general of her order of the Missionaries for Charity, despite her wish to step down
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1992 - Enters the hospital in La Jolla, California for treatment of pneumonia and
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> congestive heart failure
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1993 - Falls and breaks three ribs in May, hospitalized for malaria in August, undergoes surgery for blocked blood vessel in September
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> 1996 - Falls and breaks collarbone in April, suffers malarial fever and left ventricle failure in August, receives honorary citizenship on November sixteenth
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> March 13, 1997 - Steps down as the head of her order, is succeeded by Sister Nirnala
 * <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> September 5, 1997 - Dies of a massive heart attack in Calcutta at the age of 87

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