Mother Teresa

Christian Message Mother Teresa had a call from God, and she devoted her life to helping the poorest of the poor. When critics attacked her for simply helping the poor, and not helping them change their own lives, she replied, "I don't pretend to do other than that". Mother Teresa gave care and love to those from the streets because she felt loneliness was one of the greatest diseases. She was in the forefront to helping AIDS sufferers die with peace, love and dignity. She always said she was neither a medical nor a social, but a religious order. Mother Teresa said "It is Christ we touch in the broken bodies of the starving and the destitute." Mother Teresa urged many volunteers to "Give Christ to the world, do not keep him to yourself and in doing so use your hands." Mother Teresa on the significance of death said "For me that is the greatest development of the human life, to die in peace and dignity, because that's for eternity." She is a Christian following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. …