HOLY SPIRIT OF INDIA ! = ACT 1 - SCENE 20 = ‹ MAMASITA › MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA !

I composed this film to honor the memory, works and life, of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

One of the most highly respected and deeply pious women in the world, Saint Mother Teresa was internationally known for her charitable work among the victims of poverty and neglect - particularly in the slums of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India.

She is also called Saint Teresa of Calcutta; and I like to call her ‹ Mamasita ›

In 1979 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in recognition of her humanitarian efforts.

She also received the Jewel of India, India’s highest civilian medal, as well as honorary degrees from academic institutions worldwide.

The Roman Catholic Church declared her a saint in 2016.

Mother Teresa’s original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.

She was born in Skopje, Macedonia, and is of Albanian ancestry.

She was baptized there on August 27, 1910.

At the age of 18 she decided to become a nun, and she ventured to Dublin, Ireland, to join the Sisters of Loretto, a community of Irish nuns with a mission in the Archdiocese of Calcutta.

After a year she left Ireland to join the Loretto convent in Darjeeling, India.

Her work included a teaching post at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta, where she witnessed the destitution that marked the city’s slums.

In 1946, Mother Teresa later recalled, she received a “call within a call,” experiencing what she considered divine inspiration to begin a new chapter in her life, one devoted to helping the sick and impoverished.

In that year she founded a new religious order, the Missionaries of Charity.

This new order was officially recognized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1950.

The order organized schools and opened centers to treat the blind, the aged, lepers, the disabled, and the dying.

In 1952 Mother Teresa founded the Nirmal Hriday (“Place for the Pure of Heart”) in Calcutta - a home to which terminally ill people could go to die with dignity.

Despite her own religious beliefs, Mother Teresa demanded that the volunteers and workers at the Nirmal Hriday respect the religious beliefs of those who came for sanctuary in their last days.

Under her guidance a leper colony called Shanti Nagar (“Town of Peace”) was built near Asansol in West Bengal.

In the years after its inception, the Missionaries of Charity established centers throughout the world.

In 1968 Pope Paul VI called Mother Teresa to Rome, Italy, to found a home there.

In 1971 he awarded her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize.

Under Mother Teresa’s direction, the Missionaries of Charity established orphanages, nutrition centers, health care centers, and schools, bringing relief to diverse people, from impoverished blacks in South Africa to Christians and Muslims in war-torn Lebanon in the early 1980s to the poor in New York City’s Harlem section.

After Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in 1989, she was fitted with a pacemaker.

Because of her health problems, she resigned as superior general of the order in April 1990.

She was voted out of retirement by the members, however, and returned to her post in September.

In early 1997 Mother Teresa began to suffer from increasingly severe health problems, including heart and kidney disorders.

Only a few months after stepping down permanently from leadership of the Missionaries of Charity, she died of a heart attack in Calcutta on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87.

At the time of her death, missions of Mother Teresa’s order existed in more than 90 countries and had grown to include some 4,000 nuns and hundreds of thousands of lay workers and volunteers.

Sister Nirmala, a longtime member of the order, succeeded her as head of the organization.

Within two years of Mother Teresa’s death, the process to declare her a saint was begun, with special authorization from Pope John Paul II.

She was beatified on October 19, 2003, reaching the ranks of the blessed in what was then the shortest time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

Mother Teresa was canonized on September 4, 2016.

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Long Live India !
Long Live Love !
Long Live Wisdom !

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Sincerely,

Teri’irere Ito’arai
(Henrik)

Film composer & amateur orator and singer.
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The Holy Spirit of India !
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The Holy Spirit of Love !
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The Holy Spirit of Beauty & Wisdom !
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The Holy Spirit of Singing !
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The Holy Spirit of Humour !
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The Holy Spirit of Prayer !