Her practice of Catholic devotion never collided with the real needs of the impoverished people.
Today, Mother will formally become a saint as Vatican is canonizing her, but she was always a saint for us & more than a mother as she touched the hearts & souls of millions.
In this formal ceremony, the entire family of the Missionaries of Charity– Sisters, Brothers, Fathers, coworkers, and Lay Missionaries of Charity and volunteers, benefactors, friends of different faiths, and especially the poorest of the poor and the Government of India, represented by the Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, is witnessing this grand spectacle at Vatican, that brought fame to India and the world at a large.
While the rationalists may question the miracle that occurred in Santos, Brazil in 2008 and earlier in Bengal, in India, faithful and deprived people who have been touched by this kind soul who said adios to this mortal world almost two decades ago, in 1997, believe that she was a saint in her life itself who had walked on the streets of Calcutta and not the saint of gutters as Calcutta is a City of Joy and not a gutter!
Although she was a devout Catholic, but her practice of Catholic devotion never collided with the real needs of the impoverished people she set out to help as she had dedicated her life to the people of all faiths and religions.
Today Calcutta is teeming with a sea of people, who are representing the joy of hundreds of thousands who thrilled at the process of she formally achieving the sainthood, and that’s too in the country of saints, she will be the first Christian saint and that’s too a woman!
This frail nun, wrapped in a white and blue-striped sari had moved many, including the world famous painter, M.F. Husain who had just drew three lines on a drape of a white canvas, tells the world that three lines of humility, fraternity and love is all that the world needs to make it a place worth living.