Anniversary of Mother Teresa's Death Good Time to Take Up the Pro-Life Mission
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Saturday is the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa, long regarded as the unofficial patron saint of the pro-life movement. As Catholics remember the sister whose selflessness and sacrifice for unborn children and others became an international model, Father Frank Pavone says now is a good time to take up her pro-life mission. "Mother Teresa of Calcutta was called from this world on September 5, 1997," Pavone, the head of Priests for Life, recalls. "In my many conversations with her about the pro-life movement, it was very clear that she expected us not simply to pray but to intervene," he explained. "She told me about how she went to the places where abortions were performed and took the women by the arm, away from that place of death and to her communities where they would find hope and life for themselves and their children," Pavone said. Although many pro-life advocates will remember her life in many ways, Pavone says their is one way that is the best: "Above all, honor her by imitating her." Ref. Source 3
"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."
-- Mother Teresa
"Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering, and the lonely right there where you are - in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society - completely forgotten, completely left alone."
-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997); Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity
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Comments: There are too many hungry people still in our country? This is a reminder to all missionaries of charity don't forget Mother Teresa and what she stood for.
"It's the greatest poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
-- Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic nun