Mother Teresa is set to be canonized by Pope Francis on Sunday

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Thank God for saints on earth like Mother Teresa whom
the Holy Spirit shows are completely Sanctified and Saints in Heaven
interceding for us. God raises their names to give us good examples
to follow.
I pray for those who ‘bad mouth’ Mother Teresa, especially Christians,
(I saw a blog where a non-Catholic, maybe anti-Catholic Christian
using quotes from an atheist named Christoper Hitchens called
the Myth of Mother Teresa. Very sad, he chose not to reach
a mutual understanding of things she did and put her down.)
…
I pray her example helps myself and others to truly follow Jesus Christ
with each of our heart, soul, and strength in thanksgiving & love of God;
and love our neighbor as ourselves.
 
gilliam said:
Mother Teresa is set to be canonized by Pope Francis on Sunday. n.pr/2c7ZRFQ
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A good article–balanced and unsneering towards religion, especially Catholicism, unlike so much of modern journalism.

Yes, Mother Teresa is a traditional saint for modern times. Aptly put by Fr. James Martin, SJ . And Fr. Barron is so right–if we reduce our faith to what is rational we rob it of it’s transcendence–it’s very divinity.

As it happens she will be declared a saint the day after my birthday. So, I feel quite blessed to have a unique connection to her whom I have admired for so long, and whose intercession I very much desire and need.
 
Please don’t take this the wrong way. I have admired Mother Teresa since I first encountered her in the late 1970s but I have some misgivings. I wonder why the care is so primitive why even loyal followers question the ethos where a good death is seen as better than simply saving the life of a person with a few cheap drugs. Re using needles. Nuns having to wash with a bowl and a milk powder tin as though they don’t live with running water. Begging when donors fulfil the financial obligations of the order. A holy and godly woman I have no doubt and a saint no doubt but I am slightly hesitant at her canonisation. I know most colleagues won’t agree and I don’t mean to cause offence just an opinion
 
Thanks for posting.
How amazing…St. Teresa of Calcutta,.,a Saint!
 
There were and are grave doubts for many of us. I will not be celebrating,
 
Rosebud77 said:
There were and are grave doubts for many of us. I will not be celebrating,
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So don’t. The OP, and the articles linked say nothing about grave doubts. If you have some true point to make, why not make it instead of lobbing a discredit bomb that is a dud. Sorry to tell you this, but your lone dissenting “opinion” won’t change anything.
 
I can’t believe anyone would consider blasting this holy woman.
Her orders care for the rejected in countries all over the world. Here is my city, they care for women dying of AIDS.
At a time when holiness is rejected by the world at large, we NEED to celebrate how she lived the Gospel message.
To disrespect her is to disrespect our faith. She lived the faith. She is indeed, a saint for our times and much deserving of canonization.
 
pianistclare said:
I can’t believe anyone would consider blasting this holy woman.
Her orders care for the rejected in countries all over the world. Here is my city, they care for women dying of AIDS.
At a time when holiness is rejected by the world at large, we NEED to celebrate how she lived the Gospel message.
To disrespect her is to disrespect our faith. She lived the faith. She is indeed, a saint for our times and much deserving of canonization.
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When I was a teenager and she wasn’ t known,my mother and a friend and neighbour used to gather funds and clothes for the persons her order cared for here in Zarate.
I remember that they tried to buy a washing machine,and they would come and go worried that the nuns did all the washing by hand. But the nuns would give them thanks and refused,and said sth like what they could do with their hands,they would and it was ok.
Mother Teresa can t have been that known,because my mom,her friend and her husband went to pick her up at the airport when she came to visit once And I remember it as sth normal,but they were happy because they loved her and her order .
The funny thing is that the " saint" at that time was our neighbour"s husband,cause my mom and her friend really really were busy with the " little nuns" and he was the loving driver all over.
They were all just " busy bees"🙂 n my very young eyes.
Mother gave them a rosary.
 
Mother Teresa’s first miracle was completely fake. The women who was supposedly healed by Mother Teresa, received medicines from doctors. This is well documented. I’m sure there are Catholics who will look with mixed feelings at this canonization.
 
Cheiron said:
Mother Teresa’s first miracle was completely fake. The women who was supposedly healed by Mother Teresa, received medicines from doctors. This is well documented. I’m sure there are Catholics who will look with mixed feelings at this canonization.
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Well, there are many people who believe they know better than the Church. :rolleyes:

Many of the Saints we revere were canonized by acclamation long before the Church put together criteria and processes.
Those people didn’t always have miracles. What they DID have was profound Christian love and wonderful works in their lives. Mother Teresa certainly had that.

It’s astounding to me that anyone would want to deny someone such an honor.
Especially someone whose incredible life is so well documented.

People revere celebrities more than holy people. 😦
 
Whether she did or didn’t have miracles…even if you left that part out, Mother Teresa would still be regarded as a saint by most people. Anyone that thinks otherwise has their own agenda. I cannot think of a more holy woman in our time.
 
Cheiron said:
Mother Teresa’s first miracle was completely fake. The women who was supposedly healed by Mother Teresa, received medicines from doctors. This is well documented. .
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Do you have a source for this?
 
Cheiron said:
Mother Teresa’s first miracle was completely fake. The women who was supposedly healed by Mother Teresa, received medicines from doctors. This is well documented. I’m sure there are Catholics who will look with mixed feelings at this canonization.
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Her miracles have been thoroughly documented. They even contacted Christpher Hitchens.
In fact, Vatican authorities routinely interview at least a few people who doubt the suitability of someone for sainthood. (Among those contacted during the early stages of Mother Teresa’s review was Christopher Hitchens, who wrote a highly critical assessment of Mother Teresa’s work, calling her “a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud.”)
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Irishmom2 said:
Whether she did or didn’t have miracles…even if you left that part out, Mother Teresa would still be regarded as a saint by most people. Anyone that thinks otherwise has their own agenda. I cannot think of a more holy woman in our time.
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I agree that the Mother Teresa’s moral character is a completely separate question. Whether she did any miracles however, is important in becoming a saint. I know too little of her second miracle to judge that particular miracle, but I do know that the first one is false.
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Do you have a source for this?
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Sure. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/1443320/Medicine-cured-miracle-woman-not-Mother-Teresa-say-doctors.html
qui_est_ce said:
Her miracles have been thoroughly documented. They even contacted Christpher Hitchens.
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And the Vatican authorities ignored him. That was a big mistake, because everyone can easily google and check the story of the ‘miracle’. Monica Besra visited a doctor and received medication. That’s the truth.
 
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What they DID have was profound Christian love and wonderful works in their lives. Mother Teresa certainly had that.

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Although that is debatable too, it’s not my point of contention. All I’m saying is that the first miracle doesn’t appear genuine to me.
 
Cheiron said:
Although that is debatable too, it’s not my point of contention. All I’m saying is that the first miracle doesn’t appear genuine to me.
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But Mother Teresa’s first miracle has officially been recognized for more than a decade. In 1998, one year after her death, her intercession reportedly cured an Indian woman of a stomach tumor.
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TIME reported the story of Monica Besra and her tumor in 2001. “There was no way any doctor would have operated on me at that hour,” Besra told TIME of writhing in pain in a home that was run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity on Sept. 5, 1998. “So the nuns just started praying and kept a Mother Teresa medallion on my stomach. The pain subsided, and the tumor vanished.”
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As Episcopal Bishop Salvatore Lobo explained at the time, Besra’s recovery met the requirements to be declared a miracle: “It is organic, permanent, immediate and intercessionary in nature.”
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time.com/4154838/mother-teresa-first-miracle/
 
Cheiron said:
Although that is debatable too, it’s not my point of contention. All I’m saying is that the first miracle doesn’t appear genuine to me.
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Well, remember you are speaking to Catholics about a most revered fellow Catholic.
I don’t ever recall a British tabloid being a credible source for Catholic information or any info, frankly.

You don’t like her, fine. Whatever. But we Catholics are rejoicing over this. Let us have it.
 
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