Just five days after Princess Diana was killed, Mother Teresa died SEPTEMBER 5, 1997.
The daughter of an Albanian grocer, she joined an order at age 18 and began working in the slums of Calcutta.
She founded the Missionaries of Charity, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979.
The
British Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who converted to Christianity,
wrote in "The Human Holocaust," (Human Life Review, 1980):
"Mother
Teresa...in Calcutta, goes to great trouble to have brought into her
Home for Dying Derelicts, castaways left to die in the streets. They may
survive for no more than a quarter of an hour, but in that quarter of
an hour, instead of feeling themselves rejected and abandoned, they meet
with Christian love and care.
Mother
Teresa's...love and compassion reach out to the afflicted without any
other consideration than their immediate need, just as our Lord does
when He tells us to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, clothe the
naked. She gives all she has to give at once, and then finds she has
more to give..."
Malcolm Muggeridge added:
"Something of God's love has rubbed off on Mother Teresa."
Phyllis Schlafly wrote in The Power of the Positive Woman (NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1978):
"Few
women in history have ever known the career fulfillment that Mother
Teresa has known. She is the Albanian nun who has made it her mission to
minister to the poor and dying in Calcutta, India...
She has
become a living legend, acclaimed throughout the world-a career success
and a happy woman by any standard. And Mother Teresa has said that men
could never equal women in love and compassion."
Mother Teresa stated:
"I
see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I
must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I
must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus."
Mother Teresa explained:
"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."
"God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful."
"If you want to pray better, you must pray more."
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
Ronald Reagan wrote in "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation," (Human Life Review, 1983):
"The
revered Mother Teresa, who works in the streets of Calcutta ministering
to dying people in her world-famous mission of mercy, has said that
'the greatest misery of our time is the generalized abortion of
children.'...
We can echo the always-practical woman of faith,
Mother Teresa, when she says, 'If you don't want the little child, that
unborn child, give him to me.'"
On
February 3, 1994, Mother Teresa addressed the National Prayer Breakfast
in Washington, D.C., before an audience of 3,000, which included
President and Mrs. Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore. Speaking with
simple, yet powerful directness, the frail 83-year-old Mother Teresa
stated:
"Jesus died on the Cross because that is what it took for Him to do good to us - to save us from our selfishness in sin...
The
greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war
against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the
mother herself, and if we accept that a mother can kill even her own
child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion?...
We
must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to
be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us.
So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love,
that is, to give until it hurts her plans or her free time, to respect
the life of her child.
The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.
By
abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own
child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, the father is told that
he does not have to take any responsibility for the child he has brought
into the world. The father is likely to put other women into the same
trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion.
Any
country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but
to use violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest
destroyer of love and peace is abortion.
Many people are very,
very concerned with the children of India, with the children of Africa
where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also
concerned about all the violence in this great country of the United
States. These concerns are very good.
But
often these same people are not concerned with the millions who are
being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers....
We
have sent word to the clinics, to the hospitals and police stations:
'Please don't destroy the child; we will take the child.' So we always
have someone tell the mothers in trouble: 'Come, we will take care of
you, we will get a home for your child.'
And
we have a tremendous demand from couples who cannot have a
child....Jesus said, 'Anyone who receives a child in my name, receives
me.' By adopting a child, these couples receive Jesus but by aborting a
child, a couple refuses to receive Jesus.
Please
don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am
willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child
to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.
From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortion....
If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then
America can become a sign of peace for the world.
From here, a sign of
care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world.
If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world,
then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!"
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