A quiet day at Quepem home

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MOTHER FACTS
Mother
Teresa.
Date of
death
Sept 5,
1997
Born:
August 26,
1910
Name: Agnes
Gonxha
Bojaxhiu
THE SAINT OF A
MOTHER
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Panjim, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
Photo shows Mother
Teresa at a meeting held at
Azad Maidan, Panjim
during her Missionary visit
in August 1986. The sound
for this meeting was
provided by St Xavier
Sound System.
Mother and the saint-making process God played Guide
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Jude Joseph tells NAVIN JHA how the Almighty had destined the trip of 87
people to Kolkata to witness Mother Teresa’s place of work
the congregation’s experts agree the candidate lived a virtuous life, the case is forwarded to the pope, who signs a decree
attesting to the candidate’s “heroic virtues”.
If the postulator finds someone was
healed after praying for the candidate’s intercession, and if the cure cannot be medically explained, the case is
presented to the congregation as the
possible miracle needed for beatification, the first major hurdle in the saint-
In 1986, Mother Teresa is seen receiving a painting based on her life, from a Goan
Artist Shirish Naik. on the last day of her three-day visit to Goa.
The process to find a new saint usually begins in the diocese where he or
she lived or died; in Mother Teresa’s
case, Kolkata.
A postulator essentially the cheerleader
spearheading the project gathers testimony and documentation and presents the
case to the Vatican’s Congregation for the
Causes
of
Saints. If
making process.
Panels of doctors, theologians, bishops and cardinals must certify that the
cure was instantaneous, complete and
lasting and was due to the intercession
of the saintly candidate. If convinced,
the congregation sends the case to the
pope, who signs a decree saying the
candidate can be beatified.
A second miracle is needed for the
person to be declared a saint.
reforming the process
Pope Francis has raised eyebrows
with some rule-breaking beatifications
and canonisations, waiving the need
for miracles and canonising more people in a single clip more than 800 15th
century martyrs than John Paul did in
his 26-year pontificate (482).
Pope Francis has also imposed new
financial accountability standards on
the multimillion-dollar machine after
uncovering gross abuses that were
subsequently revealed in two books.
The books estimated the average cost
for each beatification at around
$550,000, with much of the proceeds
going to a few lucky people with contracts to do the time-consuming investigations into the candidates’ lives.
st. teresa?
Why is Mother Teresa a saint? And
why is she the icon for Pope Francis’
Holy Year of Mercy? For her admirers,
it’s obvious.
“Mother is known throughout the
whole world for her works of mercy,
recognised by Christians and nonChristians alike,” said Sister Mary
Prema Pierick, the current superiorgeneral of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity order. “Reflecting about
Mother and the life of our mother, we
see all the works of mercy corporal
and spiritual put into action.”
“She crossed all barriers like castes,
races, gender, ethnic, religious, cultural
and turned into and remained the
mother of the whole civilisation,” he
said. “In the history of sainthood and
that of Christianity, she is the first saint
of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, non-religious and of course for Christians.”
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J
ude Joseph, Proprietor of
Vasco Based travel
agency, Rose Holidays, is
a great follower of Mother
Teresa. In past, he visited
Kolkata a couple of times.
He had then visited the
tomb where Mother Teresa
was buried. He claimed that,
though he wanted to go
alone to take part in Canonization celebrations to be
held in Kolkata on September 4, however, one day he
dreamt that the God wanted
him to take people from Goa
to the City of Joy (Kolkata).
Although the canonization
of Mother Teresa will take
place at the Vatican on September 4, a group of 88 people from Goa have already
reached Kolkata on Friday to
take part in the celebrations
there and to attend special
Masses and prayer meetings
to be held at tomb.
“In june while surfing the
Internet, I came upon the
canonization news. However, the date was not finalized. After a week, it was
confirmed. Though I was
intending to go alone to
Kolkata to witness and be a
part of the celebrations
there, I felt an inner voice
(God) asking me to take a
group of people interested
to be a part of the celebrations in Kolkata. Thus, I
planned an itinerary and a
package”.
Talking about the special
package, he said “All this
started in June and as per my
plan, I was intending to take
a group of 20 people, however, more and more people
(from doctors to advocates,
businessmen as well as
gazetted officers from Goa)
visited my office to book their
tickets for the special package to Kolkata. Till August, 87
people had got themselves
registered,” he said.
“As I had frequented the
Missionaries of Charity in
Mother House in Kolkata in
the past, it was very easy for
me to get the consent of sisters in the Mother House to
bring along the group of
Spread love everywhere
you go. Let no one ever
come to you without
leaving happier.
people from Goa to take
part in the celebrations. For
the accommodation, I got
confirmed bookings in hotels located close to Mother
House.”
The special package offered by Jude was of Rs
25000, which includes flight
fare, accommodation, sight-
seeing and food. “Such a
cheap package cannot be offered by anyone as the flight
fare to Kolkata itself is very
high but Indigo airlines was
kind enough to offer affordable prices for our package”.
According to the itinerary,
Jude will take his group to
Mother House, the tomb, to
several orphanages started
by Mother Teresa. The
group would be taken to the
chapel of Mother Teresa and
due to special efforts by
Jude, the group would also
be getting opportunity to
offer mass and prayers offered during Canonisation
celebrations, besides a tour
of the City of Joy.
A quiet day at Quepem home
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“I
t is a historic moment for all
of us as Mother Teresa who
served the poor and sick on
the street of Kolkata will be elevated to sainthood,” said Sister
Loureena M.C., Superior of Missionaries of Charity’s St. Joseph’s
Home, Quepem.
According to Sister Loureena
nothing special has been planned
in the house but they will be attending Solemn Eucharistic at
Holy Cross Church on Sunday and
thereafter a short movie will be
shown to people based on the life
and Services of Mother Teresa.
Speaking on the experiences of
her working with Mother Teresa,
Sister Loureena said that she did
not get an opportunity to meet her
when she had been to Goa. “But I
feel lucky and fortunate as I got a
chance to be with her for five years
in Kolkata. It was very good expe-
View of St. Joseph’s Home for Destitutes at Quepem
rience, She was so motherly, so loving, so kind and we felt God’s presence being with her,” said Sister
Loureena.
“We are very happy and grateful
to God for the gift of mother, she is
so much and everything to us.” said
all the sisters who are serving in
the St. Joseph’s House for Destitute.
Patrick, one of the inmate who
PAUL CARVALHO
or many of the poor and destitute
whom Mother Teresa served, the
tiny nun was a living saint. Many
at the Vatican would agree, but the
Catholic Church nevertheless has a
gruelling process to make it official, involving volumes of historical research,
the hunt for miracles and teams of experts to weigh the evidence. Here’s a
look at the process:
making saints
got opportunity to meet Mother
Teresa at Nagpur said expressing his
happiness that Mother was a living
saint and now she is being made
saint again for the second time.
When
contacted,
Sister
Loureena informed that St.
Joseph’s Home is one of them
among the four shelter homes of
Society of Missionaries of Charity
in Goa.
It was in 1988 Mother Teresa
agreed to the proposal of Cabido
Canon Alvaro Pinto and took over
the St. Joseph’s Home and then the
house was inaugurated March 18
in 1988.
“Initially, the sisters were residing and serving the destitutes in the
same house but later seeing their
hardship, Canon Pinto had
donated
additional land opposite to the
house where they constructed the
convent and it was inaugurated on
October 30 in 1995 at the hands of
Emeritus Archbishop Raul Gosalves” informed Sister Loureena
and said that in the same year the
women destitute shifted to their
house at Carambolim.
Now, there are 56 destitute men
from different States and six sisters
are looking after them in the home.
The men have no one, they are old
and mostly psychiatric and sufferings from various disease. “God always provides everything,” said
Sister Loureena with a smiling face
when asked her how they manage
to provide them (destitutes) with
their basic necessities.
Sister also informed that the inmates are taught to make various
handmade items, paintings beside
house work.
Superior of Missionaries of Charity’s Jyothi Bhavan at Cotto-Fatorpa
Sister Teres Joseph MC said
that they are very glad and thankful to God for the elevation of
Mother Teresa to sainthood.
According to Sister Joseph
there are 55 women destitutes in
their home and five sisters are
taking their care. “I joined the
congregation in 1982 and during
my formation years I got opportunity to be with
her for three
and
half years and I have seen that
Mother was very concern about
all the sisters and always taught
us to make use of
each
movement
in the presence of God.” said Sister Joseph.