1.We think that love is a feeling, but it is an action!
Being just a nun in a quiet monastery did not attract Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Born in an Albanian family, she left civilized Europe and went to look for her place in the world. So she went down to Calcutta beggars, with only five rupees in her pocket. For half a century, she dedicated herself to serving the poor, working hard from morning till night, washing, feeding, and caring them, until her death, when in 1997 she left this world at the age of 87. The Order of Mercy founded by her continues to receive funds for fighting with poverty, AIDS, cancer, leprosy. It built 563 shelters located in 126 countries around the world and there work hundreds of people who are committed to continue her charity deeds.
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2. We think that the heart cannot be commanded, but we can learn to love!
Those willing to become nuns in the Order of Mercy, train for 9 years. Their work is enormous and incessant: they need to clean, wash, and treat wounds, touch without gloves the most terrible plagues of leprosy. Often they have to work under the whizzing bullets over their heads. But they do it all with a quiet and happy smile. If irritation appears they cannot go to work, but pray until they find rest:
''Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.''
The Prayer of Saint Francis
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3. We think that love must be earned, but everyone is worthy of it!
Mother Teresa once saw a woman brought to the clinic suffering from leprosy. Her body was so damaged by the disease and smelled awful. She was not accepted the others, but MotherTheresa washed her and talked with her before she quietly passed away. From that moment on she started to take care of all the people in need, sick and homeless, to ease their suffering. Thus she founded the first home for the dying poor. Could everyone be loved? Mother Theresa proved that was possible every single day kissing people with leprosy, caring for rotting live bodies, with no fear of her own safety.
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4. We think that the opposite of love is hate, but in fact it is fear!
Love is the only medicine against our worries and concerns. And Mother Teresa was not afraid of anything - helping the poor in the midst of the apartheid in Pretoria, persuading the mayor of New York to release from prison three patients suffering from AIDS, working in Beirut under the bombs...
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5. We perceive love as a kind of madness, but in reality it is a special, intuitive intelligence!
The Ideas Mother Teresa are often beyond the conventional standard. She decided to open a leprosy center but the Hindus struggled with the proposal, because leprosy was seen as a punishment for people's sins. That is why she created a mobile leprosy center. Mother Theresa proved that leprosy was curable and there were patients who recovered, returned to normal life, worked and gave birth to healthy children.
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6. We think that the phrase "light of love" is just a metaphor, but love really brightens everything around!
The BBC journalist shot a documentary in the dim room at the House of the dying but the crew did not believe that they would achieve quality. After developing the tape, however, they were surprised to find that the screen was brightened by a soft pearly glow. The documentary Something Beautiful for God was released in 1969
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7. We think that love is something intimate, but it is full of openness!
The Mother Theresa's Shelters are very lively places and there are many willing to help with whatever they can. Many European doctors sometimes abandon their ordinary practice to volunteer there or create a free street clinics. They accept at least 700 sick people to these street hospitals ...
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P.S. I noticed that in most of the photos of Mother Theresa she has that aura shrine around her that is very dense and bright, full of light, as it becomes obvious from the below pictures as well.
