Tag: Mother Teresa
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Sister’s Alipur home
In all the excitement over Mother Teresa’s canonisation one thing overlooked was William Dalrymple’s association with her. The author started his tryst with India at the Missionaries of Charity home in Alipur Road, Delhi, in the 1960s as a young man. It was from there that he used to pay quick visits to the Walled …
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September 19, 2016 -
Mother’s recipe
Such was the magical appeal of Saint Teresa of Kolkata — who will for long be fondly called Mother Teresa — that unending will be stories and anecdotes drawing attention to her unique aura. Here is one more, perhaps little known. When taking an Air-India flight abroad, a gentleman approached her, said he was head …
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September 11, 2016 -
Macedonia honours new saint Mother Teresa
A week after Mother Teresa was made a saint, several hundred people gathered in the city of her birth — the Macedonian capital Skopje — for a ceremony and mass in her memory. Special papal envoy archbishop Vinko Puljic held the outdoor mass in Skopje’s main square, close to the house where Mother Teresa was …
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September 11, 2016 -
Lalthanhawla recalls Mother
Paying rich tributes to Mother Teresa, Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla has said that she was one of the greatest humanitarians of the twentieth century, an official statement said here on Wednesday. Gracing the "Blessed Mother Teresa Canonisation Celebration" function in Kolkata as chief guest last evening, Lal Thanhawla spoke of her humility, piety, faith, …
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September 7, 2016 -
Mother Teresa International Film Fest kicks off in Shillong
Meghalaya on Tuesday celebrated Mother Teresa’s sainthood with a four day Mother Teresa International Film Festival (MTIFF) 2016 here. The MTIFF 2016 celebrates the canonisation of Mother Teresa and the festival concludes on September 9 here before moving to Jowai from September 14 to 17. Films, documentaries and short films showcasing the life and work …
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September 6, 2016 -
‘Distribute Teresa’s pictures instead of opening hospitals’
As the Vatican conferred sainthood on Mother Teresa, an organisation promoting scientific thinking on Sunday ridiculed Indian politicians for attending the canonisation ceremony that "promoted superstition" and asked them to distribute her pictures instead of opening hospitals. The city-based Science and Rationalists’ Association of India (SRAI), on the day held a meet opposing Teresa’s canonisation …
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September 5, 2016 -
Heavy rains likely in next 2 days: Met office
As the news of the Mother&’s canonisation reached Kolkata, the sky opened up with thundershowers and rains. While the morning saw the sun shining strongly by late afternoon, the clouds were back over the cityscape soon. A low pressure in the Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining north-west Bay of Bengal will bring heavy rains in …
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September 4, 2016 -
School kids celebrate Mother Teresa’s canonisation
“The child is the beauty of God present in the world,” Saint Teresa often said about children for whom she dedicated her life. Through her service, Mother had touched the lives of several homeless children and sheltered them. A few hours before Mother Teresa&’s anointment as a Saint, several hundred students of different schools of …
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September 4, 2016 -
Meghalaya overjoyed as Mother Teresa becomes Saint
Catholic across Meghalaya erupted with joy as Pope Francis pronounced Mother Teresa of Calcutta a Saint of the Catholic Church even as thousands were glued to television sets to witness the canonisation at St. Peter Square in Vatican City. There were special prayers in churches and Catholic homes for the Mother Teresa, who had visited …
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September 4, 2016 -
Bible in Baluchari silk for Pope from Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who on Sunday attended the canonisation of Mother Teresa here, gifted a Bible bound in Baluchari silk to Pope Francis. Banerjee handed over the Bible bound in Baluchuri to Kolkata Archbishop Thomas D’Souza and Sister Mary Prema Pierick, the Superior General of the Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity. "Bible in …
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September 4, 2016 -
Kolkata may get first St Teresa church
The canonisation ceremony of Mother Teresa has now paved way for renaming of the Mother Teresa Church in Kolkata to St Teresa Church, possibly the first such church in India. The church situated in Dum Dum area started functioning around five years ago. It would soon be renamed as St Teresa Church, officials of the …
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September 4, 2016 -
Teresa’s sainthood a proud moment: Modi
The sainthood of Mother Teresa "is a memorable and proud moment", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday. The Pope on Sunday declared Mother Teresa as Saint Teresa at an event in Vatican City.
September 4, 2016 -
Mother Teresa canonised, conferred with sainthood
In a historical and proud moment for India, Pope Francis on Sunday declared Mother Teresa ‘Saint Teresa of Calcutta’ in a ceremony at the Vatican as celebrations broke out across India especially in her adopted city of Kolkata. Thousands of people including a sizeable number of Indians flooded the St. Peter&’s Square in the holy Vatican …
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September 4, 2016 -
Thousands arrive in Vatican for Mother Teresa’s canonisation
Tens of thousands of people flocked to Vatican City’s St Peter’s Square on Sunday to watch Pope Francis declare Mother Teresa a saint. Pope Francis will celebrate a Mass and Canonisation on Sunday on the eve of Mother Teresa’s 19th death anniversary. She died on September 5, 1997, the BBC reported. Many pilgrims arrived at …
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September 4, 2016 -
Sonia, Rahul hail Mother Teresa
Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday paid tributes to Mother Teresa on the day of her canonisation ceremony at the Vatican. In her message, Sonia said the conferring of sainthood on the Albanian nun was a recognition of her service to the poorest of poor, the dying and destitute. Describing …
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September 4, 2016 -
The Saint of Calcutta
There is a paucity of light in this dank, dark world. From pandemics affecting millions to wars ravaging humanity, the lack of light is, more often than not, the default human condition. In such a scenario, one ray of light is all people have to cling on to most times — the light of faith …
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September 4, 2016 -
Mother Teresa: A vocabulary of love
ON CONVERSION ‘Oh, I hope I am converting. I don’t mean what you think. I hope we are converting hearts. Not even almighty God can convert a person unless that person wants it. What we are all trying to do by our work, by serving the people, is to come closer to God. If in …
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September 3, 2016