21. Mother Teresa Accepting The Nobel Peace Prize mother teresa Accepting The nobel Peace Prize Oslo 1979 I choose thepoverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (the http://www.drini.com/motherteresa/own_words/nobel.html

Mother Teresa Accepting The Nobel Peace Prize Oslo 1979 "I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (the Nobel Prize) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." Also as soon as she learned about the plan for a dinner on her honor she politely asked for the dinner to be cancelled to save the money to feed the poor. [ Full Speech, thanks to Steven F. for the link suggestion ] 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.

22. Mother Teresa Accepting The Nobel Peace Prize Letter From mother teresa when she announced her Resignation in August 1990. BackroundInfo After that a conclave of sisters is called to choose successor. http://www.drini.com/motherteresa/own_words/resign.html

Letter From Mother Teresa when she announced her Resignation in August 1990. [ Backround Info: After that a conclave of sisters is called to choose successor. In a secret ballot, Mother Teresa is re-elected with only one dissenting vote, her own and withdraws her request to step down.] My dearest children, Sisters, Brothers, Fathers, Lay Missionaries, Co-Workers This brings you my prayer and blessing for each one of you - my love and gratitude to each one of you for all you have been and have done all these 40 years to share the joy of loving each other and the Poorest of the Poor. Your presence and the work you have done throughout the world for the glory of God and the good of the Poor has been a living miracle of love of God and yours in action. God has shown his greatness by using nothingness - so let us always remain in our nothingness - so as to give God free hand to use us without consulting us. Let us accept whatever He takes with a big smile.

23. Search India - Tagore, Amartya Sen, Mother Teresa And Other Indian Nobel Laureat Search India Tagore, Amartya Sen, mother teresa and other Indian nobel Laureates. motherteresa - 4 - Social worker and winner of the nobel Prize. http://www.searchindia.com/search/People/Nobel_Laureates/index.shtml

Search Engine on India Add Your Site Search Help Categories Arts Autos Business Careers ... Travel USA Channels Arizona Atlanta Austin Bay Area ... Ultimate India Canada CanadaIndian.com India Delhi Mumbai Bangalore Tamil Nadu ... IT Industry Search: Entire Directory Just this Category Match: Any Terms All Terms Home People Nobel Laureates Displaying listings 1-15 Access to Amartya Sen - Listing of works and presentations Amartya Kumar Sen - Brief autobiography Amartya Sen - 1998 Nobel prize winner for contributions to welfare economics Amartya Sen Amartya Sen Interview - Atlantic Online interview with economist AK Sen Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman - Physicist acclaimed for his work on radiation effect Mother Teresa - Christian missionary and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 Mother Teresa - 2 - Christian missionary and social worker Mother Teresa - 3 - Christian social worker Mother Teresa - 4 - Social worker and winner of the Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore - Eminent Bengali literary figure. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Winner of Physics Nobel Prize Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Physicist acclaimed for his work on Black Holes Tagore and His India - Article on Rabindranath Tagore VS Naipaul - Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001 Listings 1-15 of 17 displayed.

24. Itihaas: Independent: Profile -- Mother Teresa nobel Peace laureate mother teresa was an outstanding humanitarian, thechairman of the Norwegian nobel Committee, Mr Francis Sejestad, said. http://www.itihaas.com/independent/teresa-profile.html

Profile Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Growing up in Albania Born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje in Macedonia, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhia was the youngest of three children of an Albanian family. As she was pink and plump, her brothers and sisters fondly called her "Gonxha" (flower bud). From childhood the children were taught the lessons of charity. Agnes liked to be in church, reading, praying and singing. When she was quite young, she felt the desire to spend her entire life for God and His work. For this decision, she was helped by a father to whom she confessed her desire. At the age of 18 she joined the Loreto Sisters who were very active in India. She was trained in religious activities. She choose the name Sister Teresa. In 1929 Sister Teresa was assigned to teach at the St Mary's Convent School in Calcutta, India. The call from Jesus While working, whenever she used to find time, she used to look after the sick. On May 24, 1937, she took her final vows as a nun in Darjeeling. Her journey to Darjeeling in September 1947 was, perhaps, the most important journey of her life. Here she heard God's voice the message was "to leave the convent and help the poorest of poor and to live with them." She said it was an order and had to be obeyed. At first she did not get the permission to leave the convent but in 1948 she got the permission specifically from Pope Pius XIII to leave the the Loreto community and work among the city's poor. Since then, she has remained a guardian angel for the sick and dying the world over. She chose to wear the plain white sari with the blue border and a simple cross pinned to her left shoulder.

25. Itihaas: Independent: Chronology -- Mother Teresa Angel of mercy, mother teresa, served God among the poorest of poor for50 years. Many saw the nobel Prize winner as a living saint . http://www.itihaas.com/independent/teresa.html

Chronology Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Angel of mercy, Mother Teresa, served God among the poorest of poor for 50 years. Many saw the Nobel Prize winner as a "living saint". On her death on September 5, 1997, Prime Minister of India, I K Gujral expressed sorrow over Mother Teresa `attaining her place in heaven'. He said, "We in India are fortunate that the Mother chose to make Calcutta the base for her world-wide mission of mercy and compassion." 26 Aug 1910 Agnes Gonxha Beiaxhiu born, in Skopje in Macedonia, the youngest of three children of an Albanian family. Leaves home for Dublin, Ireland, to become a Loretto nun. She takes the name sister Teresa Arrives in Calcutta, India and joins St Mary's High school to teach. 24 May 1937 Takes final vows as a nun in Darjeeling Most important journey of her life to Darjeeling where she receives a call from Jesus to serve him among the poorest of poor and to live with them Opens first slum school in Calcutta. Missionaries of Charity established. Opens Nirmal Hriday, or Pure heart, a home for dying Receives the Padmashri award for distinguished service her first award for her humanitarian work Pope John Paul VI awards Mother peace prize Gets the Nobel Peace Prize Awarded India's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna.

26. Mother Teresa Page. Short chronology leading up to mother teresa's 1979 nobel Peace Prize.Includes links to related sites and to the Missionaries of Charity. http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7177/teresa.htm

other eresa Mother Teresa, one of the best known personalities in the world acknowledged for her personal holiness and compassion for the poor, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...the late Roman Catholic nun and missionary known as "the Saint of the Gutters"....devoted her life to the succor of the sick and the outcast, earthly sufferers were nothing less than Christ in "distressing disguise". Mother Teresa. A fairly detailed account of the nun who was called "The Saint of the Gutters." Maintained by the Technisch Instituut Sint-Vincentius , Belgium. Please don't forget to sign the Condolence Book at TISV. Thanks. Mother Teresa 1910 - 1997 Latest News: Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, died earlier this afternoon (Friday 1:30 EDT) in her convent in India. She was 87. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, she joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1928. She took the name "Teresa" after St. Teresa of Avila, Mother Teresa 1910 - 1997 Catholic.net's tribute to Mother Teresa. Short biographical sketch of her life and work, with news reports and photograph.

27. Mother Teresa Program, Senator Edward Kennedy and Robert McNamara, head of the World Bank, addedtheir support to the nomination of mother teresa for the nobel Peace Prize. http://www.geocities.com/spiritofalbania/teresa.htm

Shpirti i Shqiperisë Home History News Feedback ... Anthony Weir An Irish poet Ivanaj brothers Remarkable Albanian writers King Zog The first Albanian modern king Lord Byron Mother Teresa Norman Wisdom and Albania "Pitkin" Skenderbeg National hero Gazetteer of Albanian towns and c ities Links Poetry Guestbook A gnes G onxha B ojaxhi ("Mother Teresa") Mother Teresa was born in Skopje in what is now The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on August 27, 1910. Her original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Her father, who was of Albanian descent, ran a small farm. At the age of twelve, while attending a Roman Catholic elementary school, she records that she knew she had a vocation to help the poor. She decided to train for missionary work, and a few years later made India her choice. At the age of eighteen she left the parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with a mission in Calcutta. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where in 1928 she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1929 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1946 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poor in the slums of Calcutta.

28. "Evil Mother Teresa Part Of Global Christian Conspiracy" The Hindutva Brahmins have now declared that worldfamous nobel-prize winner MotherTeresa is part of the `Global Christian Conspiracy' to wipe out `Hinduism'. http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/genocide/christians/teresa.html

"Evil Mother Teresa part of Global Christian Conspiracy" The Hindutva Brahmins have now declared that world-famous nobel-prize winner Mother Teresa is part of the `Global Christian Conspiracy' to wipe out `Hinduism'. Not just that, they have also attacked Prof. Amartya Sen, a non-Brahmin Bengali Nobel laureate as part of a `CIA conspiracy'. Whilst other Indians felt proud of these two world-famous personalities, the bigoted Brahmins somehow felt sour that no Brahmin got the prize. More shocking is the relatively guarded reaction of the BJP to these events; the Big Brahmins failed to criticise these statements, leaving this job to the Telugu nationalist TDP (Telugu Desam Party) and the Bengali dominated Left Front - Hindustan Times, New Delhi, December 29, 1998 " Remarks on Amartya Sen: VHP stance reflects its sick mind: TDP, Left " HT Correspondent (New Delhi, December 28) " Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) president Ashok Singhal's reported remarks against Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Mother Teresa have evoked sharp reactions from political parties, including the Left and the Telugu Desam, who said the comments were a manifestation of a "sick mind' borne out of inadequate understanding of Hinduism. In contrast, the BJP responded guardedly to Mr Singhal's statement terming the Nobel prizes awarded to Prof Sen and Mother Teresa as part of a `Christian conspiracy to propagate their religion and wipe out Hinduism' from India. In the course of speeches at a VHP conclave yesterday at Jaipur, another senior parishad functionary had also linked Congress president Sonia Gandhi's (political) ascendancy to the increase in the activities of Christian missionaries. " Any criticism of this kind is not proper. We disapprove it," remarked BJP spokesman K. L. Sharma. The award for Prof Sen, he said, was a matter of pride for the entire country. Both he and Mother Teresa fully deserved the honour.

29. Mother Teresa mother teresa. Won The nobel Peace Prize. mother teresa won the nobelPeace Prize in 1979 because she helped people who were suffering. http://www.auroraschool.org/WAMWEB/Teresa.HTM

30. Madre Teresa Translate this page laureates/1979/, nobel Peace Prize 1979 mother teresa - biography, text of motherteresa's nobel lecture, and more from the official nobel Foundation site. http://www.esglesia.org/madre.htm

31. Mother Teresa Acceptance Speech For Nobel Prize 1979 mother teresa. nobel Prize Aacceptance Speech 1979 Oslo, Norway. Aswe have gathered here together to thank God for the nobel Peace http://www.john654.org/MotherTNobel.html

Mother Teresa Nobel Prize Aacceptance Speech 1979 Oslo, Norway 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. Ad 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? 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.

32. Spiritwalk Teachers: Mother Teresa http//www.ascensionresearch.org/mother.html CNN mother teresa Page http//www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/mother.teresa/nobel Prize mother teresa Page http//almaz http://www.spiritwalk.org/motherteresa.htm

Spiritwalk Teachers Mother Teresa Contents Biography Quotations Writings Notes ... Sources Biography Mother Teres a of Calcutta, Albanian-born Roman Catholic nun, was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Yugoslavia. In 1928 s he entered the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Dublin, Ireland and soon was sent to Darjeeling, India to do her novitiate. She took her religious vows in 1937 and taught high school in Calcutta for nearly twenty years. While serving as principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta, she was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the city's streets. She founded a school in the slums for older children, learned some basic medicine, and began treating the sick in their homes. In 1948 she was granted permission by the archbishop of Calcutta to leave her post at the convent and begin a ministry among the sick. A few years later Mother Teresa asked the Calcutta government’s aid in providing a place for the sick and dying in the streets. She was offered a building that she immediately started using as a shelter for the needy. This home became known as the Kalighat. In 1950 Mother Teresa and her associates were approved within the archdiocese of Calcutta as the Missionaries of Charity , a worldwide mission whose members follow her path, ministering the “poorest of the poor.”

33. Mother Teresa mother teresa of Calcutta (1910 ), Albanian-born Roman Catholic nun,founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and nobel laureate. http://www1.fctv.ne.jp/~masala/teresa.html

Mother Teresa Missionaries of Charity Mother Teresa Biography BORN Aug. 27, 1910, in Shkup, Ottoman Empire 1910”N 8ŒŽ27“ú ƒ†[ƒSƒXƒ‰ƒrƒAEƒXƒRƒsƒG¶‚Ü‚ê 1928 Joins Irish convent ƒAƒCƒ‹ƒ‰ƒ“ƒhEƒƒŒƒbƒ^C“¹‰ï‚É‚ÄŽóô@ô—ç–¼ F ƒeƒŒƒT 1929 Sent to novitiate in Darjeeling, India 1931 Begins teaching at a Calcutta girls' school 1946 Receives "call" to live and work among the poor ƒ_[ƒWƒŠƒ“‚É‚ ‚éC“¹‰@‚Å–Ù‘z‚̍s ƒCƒ“ƒh‚Ì•n‚µ‚¢l‚â‹ê‚µ‚ñ‚Å‚¢‚élX‚Ì‚½‚ß‚É“­‚­‚±‚Æ‚ðŒˆˆÓ‚·‚éB 1950 The Pope officially sanctions her order, the Missionaries of Charity ƒCƒ“ƒh‚É‹A‰» 12l‚̃VƒXƒ^[‚Æ‹¤‚ɁAƒJƒ‹ƒJƒbƒ^‚É‚Ä•n‚µ‚¢l‚ÉŽd‚¦‚éB 1963 Awarded India's Padmashri, for services to the people of India 1979 Wins Nobel Peace Prize ƒm[ƒxƒ‹•½˜aÜŽóÜ DIED Sept. 5, 1997, in Calcutta Mother Teresa her work uŽ€‚ð‘҂lX‚̉ƁvHome for Sick and Dying Destitutes ƒCƒ“ƒhEƒJƒ‹ƒJƒbƒ^ Excerpt from the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech ƒm[ƒxƒ‹•½˜aÜŽóÜ‚ł̃X[ƒs[ƒ`‚æ‚è "I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."

34. Washingtonpost.com: Mother Teresa, 1910 - 1997 From the Web A biography of mother teresa on the nobel Foundation site. Editor'sNote One of the above links will take you out of The Post's Web site. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/teresa/teresa.htm

RELATED ITEMS On washingtonpost.com Our photo gallery has photos from Mother Teresa's funeral. Share your thoughts on Mother Teresa's legacy. Background on Mother Teresa from The Post archives and Web sources. From the Web A biography of Mother Teresa on the Nobel Foundation site. Editor's Note: One of the above links will take you out of The Post's Web site. To return, use the Back button on your browser. Go to Today's Top News Go to International Section Go to Asia Pacific Page Go to Home Page Mother Teresa, 1910 - 1997 From Brahman Family to Tending India's Poor Mother Teresa's open casket is transported by an Indian military gun carriage in Calcutta. (AP photo) Post Stories Mother Teresa Laid to Rest After Multi-Faith Tribute From 'Saint of the Gutters' to Canonized Saint Takes Time A Holy Place, Where Long Ago a Young Nun Sat Under a Guava Tree Latest News From the AP Read AP coverage of Teresa's funeral and burial. By Kenneth J. Cooper Washington Post Foreign Service Mon., Sept. 15, 1997; Page A16 CALCUTTA, Sept. 14—Seven years ago, Mother Teresa tried hard to step down as superior general of her Missionaries of Charity, obtaining the Vatican's permission to retire and call an early meeting of the order's governing body to elect a successor. But two senior nuns, one named Sister Nirmala, thwarted Mother Teresa's elaborate plans by spreading the word that the Vatican had not actually barred members from reelecting her.

35. Washingtonpost.com: Mother Teresa, 1910 - 1997 6 (Saturday)—mother teresa, the nobel Prizewinning Catholic nun, died Fridaynight after suffering cardiac arrest in the Calcutta headquarters of her http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/teresa/stories/teresa0906.ht

RELATED ITEMS On washingtonpost.com Share your thoughts on Mother Teresa's legacy. From the Web A biography of Mother Teresa on the Nobel Foundation site. Background on Mother Teresa from The Post archives and Web sources. Editor's Note: One of the above links will take you out of The Post's Web site. To return, use the Back button on your browser. Go to Today's Top News Go to International Section Go to Home Page Mother Teresa, 1910 - 1997 Mother Teresa Dies at 87 Mother Teresa embraces a child in 1979. (AP file photo) By Kenneth J. Cooper Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, September 6, 1997; Page A01 NEW DELHI, Sept. 6 (Saturday)—Mother Teresa, the Nobel Prize-winning Catholic nun, died Friday night after suffering cardiac arrest in the Calcutta headquarters of her Missionaries of Charity, whose worldwide assistance to the poorest of the poor made her known as "the saint of the gutters." She was 87. Mother Teresa died at about 9:30 p.m. after a day that saw her health worsen progressively. Nuns clad in her order's trademark white and blue saris surrounded her bed. "I cannot breathe" were her last words, according to Sunita Kumar, a close friend. Sister Nirmala, who succeeded Mother Teresa in March as head of the Missionaries of Charity, faxed a message to news organizations saying its founder "had suddenly gone to Jesus."

36. Mother Teresa Love Cannot Remain By Itself-it Has No Meaning, Love Has To Be Put Robert McNamera, former president of the World Bank, commented, mother Teresadeserves the nobel Peace Prize because she promotes peace in the most http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/peaceheroes/mother_teresa.html

Mother Teresa by Craig Johnson "Love cannot remain by itself-it has no meaning, Love has to be put into action and that action is service... All works of love are works of peace." P Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gouxha Bojaxhiu to a peasant family in Macedonia. At an early age she had recognized the special problems associated with poverty. Horrified by its dehumanizing effects, she firmly committed herself to try and help alleviate the pain of those who suffered from it. Thus, referring to this early decision as her "vocation to help the poor," Agnes sustained that the ultimate path of fulfillment has the clothing of an active involvement in the Roman Catholic Church. Despite the protestations of her family, the young Agnes at age 18 decided to leave home and join with the Congregation of Loreto nuns working in Bengal, India. As she began her training, Agnes chose Teresa to be her new name. The adaptation of a distinct new name was a choice rich in symbolic meaning and has been a defining characteristic of her life. The name was selected in honor of St. Teresa of Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries.

37. HELP: NEED VIDEO OF MOTHER TERESA'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH Posted by Joe Panesko on March 13, 1998 at 025934 I know a videoexists of mother teresa's acceptance speech for her nobel prize. http://www.almaz.com/nobel/wwwboard/messages/886.html

HELP: NEED VIDEO OF MOTHER TERESA'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH Follow Ups Post Followup Nobel Gossip Top Page FAQ Posted by Joe Panesko on March 13, 1998 at 02:59:34: I know a video exists of Mother Teresa's acceptance speech for her Nobel prize. The Archdiocese of Seattle used to carry the video in its library, but no longer has it. I've tried every major religious bookstore in the Pacific Northwest, and none of them have located the tape for me. I need it for a retreat on April 17-19, so am frantic to find it if at all possible. Please, if you have any help, email me at pacer@halcyon.com. Follow Ups: Re: HELP: NEED VIDEO OF MOTHER TERESA'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH khamis arbid Post a Followup Name: E-Mail: Subject: Comments: : I know a video exists of Mother Teresa's acceptance speech for her Nobel prize. The Archdiocese of Seattle used to carry the video in its library, but no longer has it. I've tried every major religious bookstore in the Pacific Northwest, and none of them have located the tape for me. I need it for a retreat on April 17-19, so am frantic to find it if at all possible. Please, if you have any help, email me at pacer@halcyon.com. Optional Link URL: Link Title: Optional Image URL: Follow Ups Post Followup Nobel Gossip Top Page FAQ ... Medicine

38. Mother Teresa Books. 1990. mother teresa. nobel eMuseum. 29 June. 2001. 20 Oct2001 http//www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html . http://www.bend.k12.or.us/cascadems2/kinderclass/hero2001/hero17/teresa.htm

The World's Mother Mother Teresa By Camille As Mother Teresa took her final vows she thought to herself, "Is this really what I want to be for the rest of my life, a nun." Yes, she decided. "I need to go out into to the world and help the poor, doing the work of God." Agnes Gonxha was born August 26, 1910. She was baptized August 27 in Skopje, in Macedonia. When Agnes was nine, her father died. Now Drana, her mother was left to raise her three children alone. When Agnes was 12, for the first time in her life she felt a strong desire to dedicate her life to God's work. She talked it over with her mother and sister. Finally the decision was made. Agnes became a novice nun and was sent to Calcutta to study to become a teacher. Whenever Agnes could, she helped care for the sick. Finally, after eight years of studying, Agnes made her final vows in Darjeeling. Now Sister Teresa, she was made head of a secondary school for girls in the centre of Calcutta. Near the school was one of the many great slums of Calcutta. Sister Teresa could not close her eyes to these problems. She wondered who cared for these people. Sister Teresa took the girls she taught to the hospitals and slums. They talked seriously about what they saw and how it affected them. Sister Teresa wished to help the poor, but how? While on retreat in Darjeeling, Sister Teresa heard God's voice. His message was loud and clear: she had to leave the convent where she became a novice to help to poorest of people and to live with them. After hearing this message, Sister Teresa went straight to the bishop to ask his permission to leave the convent. The bishop told her to pray over this decision for a year. Finally, Sister Teresa was granted permission to leave the convent. Before Sister Teresa began her work, she took a nursing class. She needed to know about different diseases, their cures and how to prevent them.

39. Mother Teresa In 1952 mother teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) Home for Dying Destitutesin In recognition of her efforts she was awarded the nobel Peace Prize in http://www.crosssearch.com/cgi-bin/bounce/11180

"Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me" The old nun's secret ! A tribute to Mother Teresa of Calcutta living witness of God's love in our century "Only love, will change the other person" "Where there is great love, there are always great miracles." "We know that whatever we do is simply a droplet in the ocean. But if that droplet were missing, the ocean would be lacking." A lbanian-born Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and Nobel laureate. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, she entered the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland at the age of 18. She trained in Dublin and Darjeeling, India, before taking her religious vows in 1937. While serving as principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta, she was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the city's streets. In 1948 she was granted permission to leave her post at the convent and begin a ministry among the sick. In 1950 Mother Teresa and her associates were approved within the archdiocese of Calcutta as the Missionaries of Charity. Later the order was recognized as a pontifical congregation under the jurisdiction of Rome. Members of the congregation take four vows on acceptance by the religious community. In addition to the 3 basic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, a fourth vow is required pledging service to the poor, whom Mother Teresa described as the embodiment of Christ. In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. Subsequently she extended her work worldwide. In recognition of her efforts she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was forced to scale down her activities in 1990 because of declining health.

40. Mother Teresa's Awards - Top Biography Program, Senator Edward Kennedy and Robert McNamara, head of the World Bank, addedtheir support to the nomination of mother teresa for nobel Peace Prize. http://www.top-biography.com/0026-Mother Teresa/award.asp

Mother was recognized all over the world and she received many awards which can be listed in the following manner : In January 1971, Pope Paul VI presented her with a cheque worth £10,000 given by the Vatican as the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. She received the cheque and donated it for the construction of a leper colony in Madhya Pradesh on land donated by the Indian Government. On October 13, of the same year Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation presented her with an award in Washington. The award was made up of a heavy glass vase engraved with a figure of St. Raphael and inscribed with the increasingly familiar words : "To Mother Teresa, whose struggles have shaped something beautiful for God." In November, 1972, she was given the ‘Nehru Award’ for international understanding, by the Indian government. The Award consisted of a citation describing her as "one of the most impressive manifestations of charity throughout the world". It stated further that she had inspired a large number of devoted people all over the world to work with her in the service of the destitute, the uncared and helpless people of the society. In 1973, Mother Teresa was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which made her the first recipient of this Prize. She was selected out of a total of two thousand nominations by a panel of judges representing the major religious traditions of the world, including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism.

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