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  • Time For The New Sister Teresa
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    Mother Teresa was always her own person, startlingly independent, obedient, yet challenging some preconceived notions and expectations. Her own life story includes many illustrations of her willingness to listen to and follow her own conscience, even when it seemed to contradict what was expected. This strong and independent Slavic woman was born Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Yugoslavia, on August 27, 1910. Five children were born to Nikola and D ronda Bojaxhiu, yet only three survived. Gon...
  • 1931 To 1948 Mother Teresa
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    Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vow...
  • Mother Teresa
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    Mother Theresa of Calcutta Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in 1910 to Albanian parents in Skopje, which at the time was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. (The city is now the capital of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.) When she was 18, she entered the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland. She trained in Dublin and in Darjeeling, India, before taking her religious vows in 1937. She took the name Teresa from Saint Teresa of Lisi eux, the patron saint of foreign missi...
  • Examples Of Mother Teresa
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    Mr. Thorp Morality Per. A Mother Teresa Mother Teresa was a powerful woman with her missions and countless acts of mercy. Powerful leaders in our world today should learn from Mother Teresa and her countless acts of mercy, which she performed. Often men and women in powerful positions misuse their strengths simply for their own personal benefit. Mother Teresa is a perfect example of a modern day saint. Through her love and guidance of Jesus Christ, Mother Teresa proves to be savior. Now if you c...
  • Mother Teresa And Princess Diana Princess Diana
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    Mother Teresa and Princess Diana Princess Diana, a women of grace and glamour and Mother Teresa whose inner beauty lit up the whole world, lived in two completely different worlds, but had more in common than their closeness of deaths. These two women were both humanitarians whose mission was clear. They were both set out to help the unfortunate in every possible way, whether it was through charities or raising funds. Through different outlooks, they both were media stars and believers in love, ...
  • Mother Teresa
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    Mother Theresa: Saint of the Gutters (1910-1997) A modern day savior was born to the world in 1910 in Skopje Yugoslavia. Born under the name Agnes Gongxha Bojaxhiu, she later took the name Teresa after St. Teresa, patroness of missionaries. Joining the Sisters of Loreto at the tender age of 18, she came across many events that would touch her life in the most special way; inspiring her to do many great deeds for human kinds. In 1948, Mother Teresa came across a half-dying woman lying in front of...
  • Mother Teresa Of Calcutta
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    She dedicated her life serving the poor. She loved the unloved, cared for the un-cared, helped the dying, the cripple, and the mentally ill. She served everyone with her love and the love of God. She touched the hearts of those who doubted her because of her love and commitment to God. Mother Teresa lived an extraordinary life. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later named Mother Teresa, was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Yugoslavia. She was born into an Albanian Roman Catholic family. There were three...
  • Poor And Mother Theresa
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    Choose the two sections of Mother Tesresa's book that stuck out most, and explain why they made an impact on you. This book was so informative that it is so hard to pick only two parts that impacted me the most. If I have to choose only two the first would be Chapter Eight", The Poor and Rich in Love". As Mother Theresa makes so many points in this section. The stories she tells about bringing the dying off the streets to die in peace. This is so touching that these missionaries devote their liv...
  • Mother Teresa
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    "Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is wealth, keep it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it!" were the lines of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu who is now known as the famous Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa born to an Albanian family on August 26th, 1910 in a city called Skopje, Serbia. As a child, Agnes lived in a quite favorable house and was educated in local schools. Her father was a building...
  • Life And Times Of Mother Teresa
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    Many people from the twentieth century that had great ideas that should be carried into the twenty-first century. Gandhi with his idea of nonviolent resistance, mother Teresa with a heart that care for even those she had not met, and Pablo Picasso with his magnificent paintings. Mohandas Gandi's war he fought was one without weapons, already Gandhi was on his way to starting his career of non-violent campaigns. The main idea behind Gandhi's teachings was non-violence. He believed that the killin...
  • Way Mother Teresa
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    Mother Teresa's Unconditional Love The book, One Heart Full of Love, is a combination of speeches and interviews featuring Mother Teresa given during the 1970's and early 1980's. It's very obvious to me that Mother Teresa was a very simple woman. Each of the chapters in the book covers virtually the same information. The stories discussed in her speeches were all very similar. She seemed to use the same stories but add a little different twist depending on the crowd she was addressing. I really ...
  • Teresa's Life Mother Teresa
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    Mother Theresa Mother Theresa dedicated every day of her adult life caring for "the dying, crippled, the mentally ill, and the unloved". She fed and sheltered them, cleaned their wounds, but what is most important, is that she made them feel good, loved, and wanted. Mother Teresa's Life Mother Teresa was born August 27, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from Albanian parents: Nik olle and Drandafille Bojaxhiu. Her father was a well known contractor and her mother was a housewi...
  • Devotion Of Mother Teresa
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    Mother Theresa We all have our own heroes, people we admire and respect, people who made an impact on our life, that made us look at the world with a different eye, Mother Teresa is definitely the one for me. Although the world is full of good people, great humanitarians that really care, people who donate billions of dollars, people who raise their voice to make a difference, Mother Teresa stands out in the crowd, she is unique. "It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. ...
  • Mother Teresa And Her Sisters
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    Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born August 26, 1910 in Skopje, in Macedonia. Her childhood was comfortable and prosperous due to her fathers success. Her father encouraged his children to be generous and compassionate to those less fortunate. Her mother was very religious and she took the children to morning mass. Agnes often helped her mother deliver parcels of food and money to the poor and prayed with the whole family every evening. The family's life changed dramatically after their fathers death,...
  • Saint In A Sari Mother Teresa
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    'A saint in a sari'-Mother Teresa-who had dedicated her life in helping the poor and the outcast, was considered by many people as a living saint. She was a glorious human being laboring and sacrificing for others. A unique person with a tough character who lived and died amongst the universe she organized that helped the rich and the poor. In early youth she became a nun, and the children she taught in Calcutta took to calling her Mother Teresa. Later the whole world followed. She founded her o...
  • Mother Teresa Mother Teresa
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    Mother Teresa Mother Teresa was a modern prophet who gave all of herself and dedicated his life to Jesus? cause, Mother Teresa worked tirelessly for the poor believing all she needed was love to cure any disease or to aid poverty. Mother Teresa's Missionary of Charity would work under any conditions, and worked to help anyone and everyone no matter what religion, or race. Mother Teresa was a true example of how Jesus wanted people to follow his example. Mother Teresa showed us what was wrong wit...

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