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title: "St. Teresa of Calcutta: Feast Day September 5 · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-calcutta/
description: "St. Teresa of Calcutta, Religious. Remembered on September 5, died 1997. Read their life in Bless."
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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](https://blessbible.app/saints/september/#5) |
| Title | Religious |
| Died | 1997 |
| Next on Bless’s Today screen | [Sunday, September 5, 2027](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-calcutta/#calendar) |

## 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.

| Date | In the US calendar | Color | Mass readings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Sunday, September 5, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/05/) | Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time | Green | Isaiah 35:4-7a · Psalm 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10 · James 2:1-5 · Cf. Matthew 4:23 · Mark 7:31-37 |
| [Tuesday, September 5, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/09/05/) | Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time | Green | 1 Corinthians 2:10b-16 · Psalm 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13ab, 13cd-14 · Luke 7:16 · Luke 4:31-37 |

Readings

Later citations were computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

[September 4 St. Rosalia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-rosalia/) [September 6 St. Magnus of Füssen](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-magnus-of-fussen/)

[All the saints of September](https://blessbible.app/saints/september/) [Born on September 5?](https://blessbible.app/saints/birthday/#09-05) [A saint for every day](https://blessbible.app/saints/)

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St. Teresa of Calcutta

Remembered on September 5

On this page

1. [Life](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-calcutta/#life)
2. [In the calendar](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-calcutta/#calendar)

In the app

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