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	Mother Teresa was in every way a saint. She received her calling from the masters at inner levels, and she fulfilled it beyond expectations....		Mother Teresa was in every way a saint. She received her calling from the masters at inner levels, and she fulfilled it beyond expectations. Some writers with little discernment and great ego have insinuated that Mother Teresa should have changed political policies for the poor, or that she was wrong to have brought in the money she did for her missions. God is not pleased with these comments, as they come from people attempting to sit in judgment where they have no place and no mantle.

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	Each person’s calling is unique. Mother Teresa was to serve the poorest of the poor. She did this with such profound love and awareness of the dignity of each soul that she actually bought extra time for this planet. She saw Christ in everyone. Her very presence helped others to want to do better, to give more and to serve more. Her presence was a healing force in and of itself....		Each person’s calling is unique. Mother Teresa was to serve the poorest of the poor. She did this with such profound love and awareness of the dignity of each soul that she actually bought extra time for this planet. She saw Christ in everyone. Her very presence helped others to want to do better, to give more and to serve more. Her presence was a healing force in and of itself. Her work was spiritually practical, but it also had great spiritual depth. She did not just talk the talk; she walked the walk. She lived the teachings of Christ.

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	Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic order of nuns dedicated to serving the poor, especially in India.		Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic order of nuns dedicated to serving the poor, especially in India.

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	<blockquote>To ''choose'', as Mother Teresa did, to live in the slums of Calcutta, amidst all the dirt and disease and misery, signified a spirit so indomitable, a faith so intractable, a love so abounding, that I felt abashed.<ref>Ibid., p. 21.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>To ''choose'', as Mother Teresa did, to live in the slums of Calcutta, amidst all the dirt and disease and misery, signified a spirit so indomitable, a faith so intractable, a love so abounding, that I felt abashed.<ref>Ibid., p. 21.</ref></blockquote>
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	[[File:MLP ECP Mother Theresa.jpg\|thumb\|Mark and Elizabeth Prophet with Mother Teresa (April 1970)]]		[[File:MLP ECP Mother Theresa.jpg\|thumb\|<translate>Mark and Elizabeth Prophet with Mother Teresa (April 1970)</translate>]]

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	Elizabeth Clare Prophet, {{POWref\|40\|34\|, October 1, 1997}}		Elizabeth Clare Prophet, {{POWref\|40\|34\|, October 1, 1997}}

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	<blockquote>Criticism of Mother Teresa is often directed at the insignificant scale of the work she and the Sisters undertake by comparison with the need.... But Christianity is not a statistical view of life. That there should be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over all the hosts of the just, is an anti-statistical proposition. Likewise with the work of [Mother Teresa’s] Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa is fond of saying that welfare is for a purpose—an admirable and a necessary one—whereas Christian love is for a person. The one is about numbers, the other about a man who was also God.<ref>Ibid., p. 28.</ref~~></blockquote~~>		<blockquote>
			Criticism of Mother Teresa is often directed at the insignificant scale of the work she and the Sisters undertake by comparison with the need.... But Christianity is not a statistical view of life. That there should be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over all the hosts of the just, is an anti-statistical proposition. Likewise with the work of [Mother Teresa’s] Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa is fond of saying that welfare is for a purpose—an admirable and a necessary one—whereas Christian love is for a person. The one is about numbers, the other about a man who was also God.<ref>Ibid., p. 28.</ref>

	~~<blockquote>~~What the poor need, Mother Teresa was fond of saying, even more than food and clothing and shelter (though they need these, too, desperately), is to be wanted. It is the outcast state their poverty imposes upon them that is the most agonizing.<ref>Ibid., pp. 22, 23.</ref></blockquote>		What the poor need, Mother Teresa was fond of saying, even more than food and clothing and shelter (though they need these, too, desperately), is to be wanted. It is the outcast state their poverty imposes upon them that is the most agonizing.<ref>Ibid., pp. 22, 23.</ref>
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	In ''Messages from Heaven'', a soul newly arrived in the retreats of the [[Brotherhood]] offered these comments following Mother Teresa’s passing:		In ''Messages from Heaven'', a soul newly arrived in the retreats of the [[Brotherhood]] offered these comments following Mother Teresa’s passing:

	<blockquote>Mother Teresa was in every way a saint. She received her calling from the masters at inner levels, and she fulfilled it beyond expectations....~~</blockquote>~~		<blockquote>
			Mother Teresa was in every way a saint. She received her calling from the masters at inner levels, and she fulfilled it beyond expectations....

	~~<blockquote>~~Each person’s calling is unique. Mother Teresa was to serve the poorest of the poor. She did this with such profound love and awareness of the dignity of each soul that she actually bought extra time for this planet. She saw Christ in everyone. Her very presence helped others to want to do better, to give more and to serve more. Her presence was a healing force in and of itself....~~</blockquote>~~		Each person’s calling is unique. Mother Teresa was to serve the poorest of the poor. She did this with such profound love and awareness of the dignity of each soul that she actually bought extra time for this planet. She saw Christ in everyone. Her very presence helped others to want to do better, to give more and to serve more. Her presence was a healing force in and of itself....

	~~<blockquote>~~Mother Teresa Teresa never sought any of the fame that came to her. In fact, it caused her spiritual angst and physical pain. The fame was truly Christ’s and not hers. She understood this, but those covering her story could not fully comprehend it. Abundance came to the missions, but this is the way of spiritual alchemy. She was God’s vessel. As she once said, “I am just a pencil in the Lord’s hand.” God provides abundance when it is necessary to the work of a saint. She was free of greed, hatred, covetoudness and other earthly foibles. Her desire was to save souls and save the poor. This she did magnificently.~~</blockquote>~~		Mother Teresa Teresa never sought any of the fame that came to her. In fact, it caused her spiritual angst and physical pain. The fame was truly Christ’s and not hers. She understood this, but those covering her story could not fully comprehend it. Abundance came to the missions, but this is the way of spiritual alchemy. She was God’s vessel. As she once said, “I am just a pencil in the Lord’s hand.” God provides abundance when it is necessary to the work of a saint. She was free of greed, hatred, covetoudness and other earthly foibles. Her desire was to save souls and save the poor. This she did magnificently.

	~~<blockquote>~~Though she was a Catholic through and through, Mother Teresa honored the ways of all that she met. She condemned no one for his or her spiritual persuasion, and she served all who were sent her way. There are great lessons in this.~~</blockquote>~~		Though she was a Catholic through and through, Mother Teresa honored the ways of all that she met. She condemned no one for his or her spiritual persuasion, and she served all who were sent her way. There are great lessons in this.

	~~<blockquote>~~There is a reason that Mother Teresa’s home was in India. She represented the Mother flame and India came to honor her as the Mother.~~</blockquote>~~		There is a reason that Mother Teresa’s home was in India. She represented the Mother flame and India came to honor her as the Mother.

	~~<blockquote>~~Heaven was waiting for her arrival. Her life was a cause for celebration in the etheric realm. Indeed, the words “well done” echoed through our halls, and we all felt joy in her accomplishments. This daughter of God understood joy as few have known it.~~</blockquote>~~		Heaven was waiting for her arrival. Her life was a cause for celebration in the etheric realm. Indeed, the words “well done” echoed through our halls, and we all felt joy in her accomplishments. This daughter of God understood joy as few have known it.

	~~<blockquote>~~It is important to note that her calling did not come easily or simply at first; very few do. Mother Teresa prayed without ceasing and studied to internalize the deepest meaning of Christ’s teaching. She was guided throughout her mission because of the purity of her intent and her dedication to the will of God. Her evolution to saint, however, was a path and a process. The greatest pity will be if others do not realize that this path is open to all who seek it with the fervor and commitment that she modeled.<ref>{{MFH}}, pp. 212–13.</ref></blockquote>		It is important to note that her calling did not come easily or simply at first; very few do. Mother Teresa prayed without ceasing and studied to internalize the deepest meaning of Christ’s teaching. She was guided throughout her mission because of the purity of her intent and her dedication to the will of God. Her evolution to saint, however, was a path and a process. The greatest pity will be if others do not realize that this path is open to all who seek it with the fervor and commitment that she modeled.<ref>{{MFH}}, pp. 212–13.</ref>
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As a young girl in Albania, Teresa knew that God was in pain and she wanted to walk in the way of the Good Physician to alleviate that pain where God’s hurt was greatest.

The Catholic nun and missionary who became known as the saint of the gutters did not begin her mission in the streets. She served for a time at the Loreto convent school in Calcutta, teaching the well-to-do young. Teaching was rewarding work, but it was not her ultimate mission.

Her real call came when she was on a train to Darjeeling in 1946. “The message was clear—it was an order,” she said. “[God] wanted me to be poor and to love him in the distressing disguises of the poorest of the poor.”

In a 1974 interview she said: “I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”

After she made the decision to serve the poor, she patiently waited two years to be released from her vows, and with but a few rupees in her pocket she began her ministry. Now her Missionaries of Charity order runs orphanages, homes for the poor, AIDS hospices and other charity centers around the world.

When she was first starting her mission, she was very much alone. She wrote in her diary:

: Today I learned a good lesson. The poverty of the poor must be so hard for them. While looking for a home (for a center), I walked and walked till my arms and legs ached. I thought how much they must ache in body and soul, looking for a home, food and health. Then the comfort of Loreto came to tempt me. But of free choice, my God, and out of love for You, I desire to remain and do whatever be Your holy will in my regard. Give me courage now, this moment.

Starting with nothing, she cheerfully went to serve those with less than nothing. Teresa counsels, “Make sure that you let God’s grace work in your souls by accepting whatever he gives you, and by giving him whatever he takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God’s will with a smile.<ref>Malcolm Muggeridge, ''Something Beautiful for God'' (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1971), p. 67.</ref>

[[File:MLP ECP Mother Theresa.jpg|thumb|Mark and Elizabeth Prophet with Mother Teresa (April 1970)]]

In ''Messages from Heaven'', a soul newly arrived in the retreats of the [[Brotherhood]] offered these comments following Mother Teresa’s death:

: Mother Teresa was in every way a saint. She received her calling from the masters at inner levels, and she fulfilled it beyond expectations....

: There is a reason that Mother Teresa’s home was in India. She represented the Mother flame and India came to honor her as the Mother.

: Heaven was waiting for her arrival. Her life was a cause for celebration in the etheric realm. Indeed, the words ‘well done’ echoed through our halls, and we all felt joy in her accomplishments. This daughter of God understood joy as few have known it.

: It is important to note that her calling did not come easily or simply at first; very few do. Mother Teresa prayed without ceasing and studied to internalize the deepest meaning of Christ’s teaching. She was guided throughout her mission because of the purity of her intent and her dedication to the will of God. Her evolution to saint, however, was a path and a process. The greatest pity will be if others do not realize that this path is open to all who seek it with the fervor and commitment that she modeled.<ref>{{MFH}}, pp. 212–13.</ref>

== Sources ==

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, October 13, 1997.

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