Posted on 08/26/2010 8:27:54 AM PDT by marshmallow
A monument to the most famous nun of all times - Mother Teresa - will appear in Russia. The name of this Catholic ascetic, who dedicated her life to helping other people, is recognized in the whole world and is closely associated with holiness and kindness. This year, the outstanding woman would celebrate her 100th birthday.
Mother Teresa established her congregation, "The Missionaries of Charity," at the end of the 1940s in Calcutta, India. In Russia, the monument to Mother Teresa will be erected in the Kaluga region, at the Etnomir (Ethnic World) cultural and educational center, Vesti reports.
The center is being currently built in the town of Borovsk, the Kaluga region, 90 kilometers far from Moscow. The center will have 52 ethnic areas representing customs, traditions and cultures of different countries.
On August 26th, 2010 the world celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata [Calcutta]. Mother Teresa, a devout Catholic, abandoned everything to follow Jesus into the slums and serve him amongst the poorest of the poor. She lived her life at a very deep spiritual level and was admired by millions throughout the world.
She cared especially for those who were often treated as outsiders in their own communities - the starving, the crippled, the impoverished, the diseased and the dying, from the old woman with a brain tumor in Calcutta to the young man with AIDS in New York City. Her special focus was the care of mothers and their children. This included mother who felt pressured to sacrifice their unborn children by want, neglect, despair, and philosophies and government policies that promote the dehumanization of inconvenient human life.
“Roe v. Wade”, she said “deformed a great nation (America). She added, “The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships...It has portrayed the greatest of gifts-a child-as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience.” She believed that loneliness was “the greatest poverty” of all and saw the West as prey to a soulless materialism. Though she received many awards including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 she confessed “It is not success, but the dedication to one’s faith that is important.”
Mother Teresa died on September 5,1997 at the age of 87.Today, over 3,000 nuns and over 500 monks in 710 institutions in 133 countries of the world are members of Mother Teresa’s order “The Missionaries of Charity”.
But the Empire State Building can’t honor her.
Darkness is enveloping this one...........Russia is slowly emerging from it.
We had saints living among us. I am certain that there are others still alive today. Therefore, we have hope.
Mother Theresa is monumental in most of the world’s heart.
It’s a nice gesture, but I’m pretty sure she would have wanted the Russian efforts and money put to better causes, and NOT a monument to her.
Just assuming, really.
The unbelieveable reality of our current predicament is that this would never happen in today’s United States.
The facts are that despite her declining birth-rate, Russia is on the ascent, and we are in a death spiral. The only reason the USA does not have a similar birth-rate issue is that we have been overrun by third-worlders.
It’s true, and it’s good of you to remind us, Celerity, that Mother Teresa did not seek or want wealth or honors for herself. She died as poor -— in terms of net personal possessions -— as some of the people she served.
On the other hand, she did accept the Nobel Prize, and airfars, and the offer of a platform on which to speak, because she wanted to call attention to Jesus Christ and to the Gospel of Love to which all human beings are called, by virtue of their own dignity as children of God.
The Gospel also speaks of God’s Kingdom as a great destiny in which the exalted will be humbled, and the humble exalted. When this happens, it is to God’s glory. So I think she wouldn’t mind this honor, as long as it can all be directed to the real Giver of evey good gift.
I am reading Padre Pio Bio book. In this book Padre Pio says that Russia will have a quicker conversion than the USA. I believe the statement was spoken in the 1950’s or 1960’s. Just very interesting. As I read this book the things reported of the times and future are amazing. It’s a bio book not about prophecy.
That’s amazing. Russia has a very rich spiritual heritage and many saints; but also a history of so much oppression and suffering. May God bless them and protect them.
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The world's most famous nun of the late 20th century. The most famous nun to the secular humanists, a great humanitarian.
The Catholic Church's greatest nuns are many, of which Mother Teresa would admit herself to be a NOBODY compared to them.
The Russians gained their salvation through blood. The NKVD behind them, the Nazis in front of them. Their deaths purchased the freedom the world enjoys to this day.
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