"Very few of us can do great things, but everyone can do ordinary things with noble love." And as she said, she used her life's love to do a lot of seemingly ordinary things, and these many ordinary things eventually gathered into a tower, and she became one of the very few people who could do great things.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and she devoted all her love and life to charity, to the poor in need, even the smallest trifles she would do well, she was known throughout the world as Mother Teresa in countless small ordinarily.
Mother Teresa's lifelong good deeds have been praised as a "saint of the poor", but after her death, some people have criticized her hypocrisy, and there are long articles to reveal her hypocrisy, whether she is "saint" or "hypocrite", justice is in the hearts of the people.
Become Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa, of Albanian descent, came from a wealthy family in Skopje, Kosovo Province, Ottoman Empire in 1910, whose real name was Agnes Goncha Bogachu. Her father, a successful local grocery contractor, is the family's most beloved youngest daughter, and in addition to her parents, her brother and sister are doubly caring, and the family is Catholic.
Perhaps because she has been living in a rich family, has been growing up in the love and care of her family, her heart has accumulated full of warmth and love, so when she joined a Catholic children's charity at the age of twelve, her heart began to be like a small sun full of energy, gushing with love and warmth that wanted to help the poor.
At that time, she was only twelve years old, but she was inspired by her heart, yearning for herself to do her best to help the poor in the future, so she would live this life.
Finally at the age of fifteen, she grew up, she could take good care of herself, she could go with her sister to participate in missionary training, so she did not hesitate to embark with her sister on a missionary training trip to India, a day she had been waiting for a long time and looking forward to for a long time.
Three years later, at the age of eighteen, she entered the Loreto Order in Ireland and continued her missionary training in Dublin and Darjeeling, India. After three semesters, she was finally able to work independently, coming to Calcutta, India, where she taught geography at the San Marie Loreto Congregational Secondary School.
In 1931, at the age of twenty-one, she officially became a nun, and six years later she vowed to become a lifelong nun and changed her name to Mother Teresa.
What is needed to do ordinary things is noble love
In 1947, East Pakistan became independent from India, leading to an influx of tens of thousands of Muslim-persecuted Hindus and refugees into Kolkata, followed by outbreaks of uncontrollable cholera and other diseases.
Mother Teresa's heart is tormented with the refugees in the streets of Calcutta, the displaced refugees are tormented by hunger and sickness, and Mother Teresa's heart is tormented by intolerance and anxiety.
Prior to this, Mother Teresa had asked the Archbishop of Calcutta to leave the school and the Congregation in order to help the poor and suffering people, but had not been allowed.
This time, in the throes of a large number of refugees, the empathetic Mother Teresa was more eager to help them, so she more firmly asked the Archbishop and the Vatican, and finally in 1948, Mother Teresa was allowed to do good as a free nun.
At the same time, Mother Teresa was assigned to a community where she could dedicate herself to helping the poor and needy. Mother Teresa immediately went to medical training and in October 1950, together with twelve other nuns, founded the Sisters of Charity, beginning their day-to-day, year-to-year rescue work.
The slum behind the station was Mother Teresa's main aid service, and as you can imagine, the slums were littered with dilapidated log cabins, and such almost inaccessible cabins were a rare refuge for the ragged poor.
On this day, a poor child who had just severed his limb and had only one leg left came to Teresa on crutches for help, he was so hungry that he couldn't care about the bleeding wound on his severed limb, but only wanted to ask Teresa for something to eat.
When Mother Teresa was about to take medicine to bandage the child's bleeding wound, the child said that he wanted something to eat, but Mother Teresa was only five rupees at the time and did not have enough money to sell food to the child, so she apologetically told the child that she could only help him bandage the wound and did not have the money to sell food.
When Mother Teresa was about to apply medicine to the child's wound, the child suddenly grabbed the medicine in Mother Teresa's hand and ran into the slum on crutches while shouting "This for me".
Mother Teresa was not at ease with the child, so she ran with the child into a small shack that was too tattered to be broken, and inside the messy shack lay a plank of wood on which lay a weak woman, and beside the woman was a little girl of about five years old and a small baby. All three were already skinny and sluggish-eyed, and it was obvious that they were in very bad physical condition.
Mother Teresa learned that the little boy with the severed limb was named Bab, that the two children in the shack were his sister and brother, and that the woman lying on the plank was their mother, suffering from tuberculosis.
The only thing Mother Teresa could do was leave them all the vitamin pills she had brought with her. Babo's mother was very grateful to Mother Teresa and begged her to see another sick old woman, for which Mother Teresa was naturally obligated, but at the same time she was also shaken: the patient who had taken care of herself was also concerned about other people in need, who were poor but very kind.
On that day, Mother Teresa not only visited the sick old woman that Babo's mother said, but she also visited many families in the slums, and the little babu and a group of slum children had been curiously following Mother Teresa, who were very fond of Mother Teresa and begged her to come back tomorrow.
The experience of going deep into the slums on this day made Mother Teresa sleepless all night, the poor children in the slums had no food to eat and no clothes to wear, and what worried her most was that they did not learn cultural knowledge, and it would be difficult to make a living when they grew up, and the life without food and clothing would continue. Mother Teresa wanted to fundamentally save these children from poverty, so she came up with the idea of opening an open-air school.
Thinking that she still had to do it, the next day Mother Teresa began to lecture under a large tree with the open space under the tree as the classroom and the ground as the blackboard.
Gradually, more and more children came to listen to the lessons, and everyone worked together to set up simple tents with rags, wooden planks, etc. to protect them from the wind and rain. In such "classrooms", Mother Teresa not only taught the children to simply read and write, but also taught them hygiene knowledge, life skills and so on. Mother Teresa's school had a maximum student population of more than five hundred.
Just as helpless as children are the elderly, especially those who are childless and homeless, as well as the dying. In order to help such people, Mother Teresa went to the municipal health department to apply for a place where such people could be accommodated.
He sought a place at the famous Kari Monastery in Calcutta, but was strongly opposed by the Brahmins of the Hindi Diocese because Mother Teresa was not Indian. Teresa did not give up, but touched many Indians with her kindness to help the sick and the elderly, including those who had previously opposed her.
In 1952, Mother Teresa officially established a shelter for the poor and dying, spreading the love of the owner to the dying, and an old man once took Teresa's hand before his death and was sincerely grateful: "I live like a dog, and I am now dying like a person, thank you." ”
Seven years later, Mother Teresa's Mission of Charity opened the same asylum for the dying in New Delhi and Ranch, India.
Unprovoked criticism
Mother Teresa was criticized by three Canadians, who were said to be scholars, and who initially both liked Mother Teresa, and according to the three scholars, they had collected a lot of information about Mother Teresa because they liked her.
In the process of collecting these materials, they found that the praise for Mother Teresa's "poor saint" was only an exaggerated package of the media, so the three scholars also discussed at length a paper called "The Dark Side of Mother Teresa" to uncover the hypocrisy of Mother Teresa, at this time Mother Teresa had been buried for fifteen years, what the three so-called scholars really wanted.
In the article, the three scholars talk about Mother Teresa's treatment of poor refugees not as kindly as reported, not only rarely setting foot in the slums, but even the children waving at her only responded expressionlessly.
We do not know the authenticity of the article, but Mother Teresa's life's noble deeds of kindness are in everyone's eyes, Mother Teresa's Nobel Peace Prize is the affirmation and praise of the world, are the world's people stupid, only these three so-called scholars are smart enough? It's like a clown's funny joke, and it's clear that justice in the hearts of the world will restore Mother Teresa's honor.
brief summary:
Mother Teresa herself once said, "The good deeds you do today are often forgotten tomorrow; you have to do them anyway." "Because Mother Teresa didn't want people to remember that the purpose of her doing good was only the good thing itself, she just wanted people in need to be helped, nothing more.
Although fifteen years after Mother Teresa's death, some people unjustifiably criticized her for her lifelong good deeds, those who received her help never forgot her kindness and warmth and have always been grateful, and the noble deeds of Mother Teresa's life have long stood in the hearts of the world and people, and are immortal.