Mother Teresa: "The Moment Passed"

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Mother Teresa of Kolkata/Calcutta gets canonized today. Here's how she described herself:
"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus."
("Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997),," vatican.va)
She established the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 and died in 1997, but the Missionaries of Charity are still around: giving “wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."

Their facilities don't look much like Mayo Clinic here in Minnesota, or Bumrungrad International Hospital in Thailand; and that's another topic.

One of these days I'll probably ramble on about Saints, miracles, and canonization. But today I'll say that a Saint is someone recognized by the Church as someone who practiced heroic virtue and is currently dead, and leave it at that. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 828, and see 61, 946, 1477, 2030)...

...I was going to write about Mother Teresa, but the my mind wandered — nothing unusual there — and this is what happened....

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  1. Victor S E Moubarak8:47 am, September 04, 2016

    On TV, just now, they said that the Catholic Church usually canonises someone when there have been a number of miracles attributed to that person and the miracles have been investigated by the Church as being genuine. However, on this occasion, (so it said on TV), the Pope has canonised Mother Teresa without any miracles attributed to her. Apparently, what she did when alive was in itself considered as miraculous.

    Is this true? Has the Pope canonised her without any miracles checked and proven? Can any of our readers shed any light on this please?

    At a time when the world is becoming more secular and un-believing, such a move by our Church would further raise suspicions about Christianity and Catholicism in particular.

    God bless.

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