My Dear Children: Mother Teresa's Last Message

by Mother Teresa, Hiroshi Katayanagi (Editor)

Finding Love, Finding Joy Before entering the Jesuits, Hiroshi Katayanagi spent a year in Calcutta as a volunteer with Mother Teresa. During that time he took many candid photographs of her. These photos are complemented here by her own message of hope, excerpted from her letters, speeches, interviews, and diary. A tender tribute and a loving gift to all, My Dear Children― · includes some of Mother Teresa's favorite original prayers. · reveals her thoughts on the inability to pray, the lesson of poverty, the nature of love, and much more. · speaks of the importance of family for today's children. · provides a brief biography of Mother Teresa's life. · is a work of perfect encouragement for one's self or for others. †

80 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2002

About the author

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu[6] (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta,[7] was an Albanian-Indian[4] Roman Catholic nun and missionary.[8] She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.

In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and also profess a fourth vow – to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."[9]

Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and canonized by Pope Francis.

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

just finished reading this again. I liked it better the second time I read it. I initially got it because it was on sale (cheap) and I originally thought it was more kid oriented because of the title however I appreciate it much more now because her spiritual darkness and struggles are more well known.