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Mother Teresa of Calcutta.b27,English.7.9-22

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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NURSE AND TEACHER

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After completing the novitiate, her first job was as a nurse in a small missionary center near Calcutta, where she had been assigned. There she got to know poverty, misery and the abandonment of so many people who survived in the most extreme conditions.

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She was very happy with her work as a nurse for her, but the Superior changed her position, assigning her to work in a well-known and distinguished school that the Congregation had in Calcutta, called St. Mary, for well-off and middle-class girls. high. Some days off, she took the opportunity to visit and help her poor ones whom she always had in her mother’s heart.

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In 1935 the Superior entrusted her with the school of Santa Teresa and about it she wrote: I have taken charge of the school of Santa Teresa, which is in Calcutta…

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When these little boys of mine first saw me, they looked at each other, wondering if I was an evil spirit or a goddess.

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I immediately rolled up my sleeves, took out everything in class, grabbed water and a sponge, and started cleaning the pavement. This amazed them very much. They stared at me since they had never seen a teacher start lessons with such work; above all, because in India cleaning is done by the lower castes. Seeing me happy and smiling, the girls began to help me, while the boys brought more water. After two hours, that dirty room was transformed, at least in part, into a school classroom, where everything was clean.

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When I arrived, they couldn’t contain themselves with joy. They began to jump and sing around me until I had put my hand on each of those dirty little heads. Since that day they call me «MA» which means MOTHER. How little is needed to make simple souls happy!

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Here is another description of the meetings with the people: “Every Sunday I visit the poor in the slums of Calcutta. I can’t help you, because I have nothing, but I’m going to make you happy. The last time, at least twenty children, eagerly awaited their «Ma». When they saw me they ran to meet me, all jumping on one leg.

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Twelve families live in that “pari” (as a row of houses is called). Each family has a single room that is two meters long by one and a half meters wide. The doors are so narrow that I can barely get through, and the ceiling is so low that you can’t stand up. And to think that for such a dump, these poor people must pay four rupees. And, if they don’t pay regularly, they are thrown out on the street. Now I am no longer amazed at the fact that my students love their school so much and that many are sick with tuberculosis.”

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A poor woman did not even once lament her misery. I was sad and, at the same time, happy, seeing that they were happy with my visit. Another told me: Oh, Ma, she’s back again! Your smile has brought the sun to this house! On the way back, I thought: Oh God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to always be the light of their life, so that I can lead them to You!

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