Religious · Remembered on September 5
St. Teresa of Calcutta
St. Teresa of Calcutta is remembered on September 5 in Bless’s calendar of saints.
| Remembered on | September 5 |
|---|---|
| Title | Religious |
| Died | 1997 |
| Next on Bless’s Today screen | None left in the published calendar (through December 31, 2028) |
Life
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, an Albanian girl who left home at eighteen for the Loreto sisters and India, and eighteen years later heard on a train to Darjeeling a ‘call within a call’: to leave the convent for the slums, to quench the thirst of Christ in the poorest of the poor.
With a white sari, five rupees, and no plan but God, she founded the Missionaries of Charity: homes for the dying, the abandoned, the leprous, the unwanted, on every continent. Through it all she bore a fifty-year interior darkness known only to her directors. The Nobel committee gave her its Peace Prize; Calcutta gave her a state funeral; the Church gave her the name she always used — Mother.
In the calendar
The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Teresa of Calcutta. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.
Readings
No dates are left in Bless’s published calendar, which runs through December 31, 2028. St. Teresa of Calcutta keeps September 5 in Bless’s calendar of saints: see the saints of September.
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