Answering Your Inner Call
"A voice whispers inside each of us, calling us to know ourselves through the experiences we came for and add our contribution to the expansion of the whole."
Mother Teresa - Servant of the Poor
On September 10, 1946, on the long train ride to Darjeeling where she was to go on a retreat and to recover from suspected tuberculosis, something happened.
She had a life-changing encounter with the Living Presence of the Will of God. Mother Teresa recalls:
"I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity." Read more
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