T is for Teresa - The highest example of love and service #BlogchatterA2Z

Born on 26 August 1910 and originally named Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu , She was the youngest child of her parents  .

Her father  died in 1919 when she was eight years old .Teresa was in her early years when she was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries . 

By the  age  of 12, she was convinced that she should commit herself to religious life.

Teresa left home in 1928 at age 18 in the desire of becoming a missionary. After that she  never saw her mother or her sister again. She arrived in India in 1929 and began her novice work  in Darjeeling . Teresa took her first religious vows  on 24 May 1931. She chose to be named after a french catholic nun Thérèse de Lisieux .

Teresa  served in a convent school  for nearly twenty years and was appointed its headmistress in 1944. Although she was teching but her mind was always disturbed by the sufferings of people she used to see around her .

She worked a lot for the poor and set an example of love and service to the humanity .

Teresa breathed her last on 5 September 1997.

5 Teachings of Mother Teresa 

1. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
2. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
3. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
4. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
5. Peace begins with a smile.