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The Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center (MTC) is a non-profit organization established and directed by the Missionaries of Charity, the religious family founded by Mother Teresa, now Saint Teresa of Calcutta, to be a unique and authoritative source of information on their foundress. Its aim is to promote genuine devotion to Mother Teresa and authentic knowledge of her life, work, holiness, spirituality, and message and also to safeguard her words and image from misuse or abuse.
The activities of the MTC are:
Why is the world so fascinated by Mother Teresa? What was so attractive about her? How did she become so extraordinary in her charity and self-sacrifice?
In essence, Mother Teresa was passionately in love with the Person of Love Incarnate – Jesus – thirsting for love as He hung dying on the Cross. This love – His love – she was to radiate to each person He placed on her daily path, drawing others to love, and so satiating the thirst of her brothers and sisters trapped in darkness, longing for the light of love to enter their lives.
Fr. Brian, MC
Postulator/Director
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Author: Brian Kolodiejchuk
This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history.
This collection of letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa’s interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time. A moving chronicle of her spiritual journey–including moments, indeed years, of utter desolation–these letters reveal the secrets she shared only with her closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul.
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Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Author: Brian Kolodiejchuk
The Postulator for Mother Teresa’s cause for sainthood, Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, has culled some of her most stirring words into a powerful book that her admirers will treasure. Jesus is My All in All follows the Roman Catholic novena format; derived from the Latin word for nine, the novena provides a nine-day rhythm of prayer and reflection.
A prayer to Mother Teresa herself is the foundation for each day’s reflections.
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Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Author: Brian Kolodiejchuk
In this book, Mother Teresa’s relationship with God and her commitment to those she served—the poorest of the poor—is powerfully explored in her own words. Taken largely from her private lessons to her sisters, published here for the first time, Where There Is Love, There Is God unveils her extraordinary faith in, and surrender to, God’s will. Love is perhaps the word that best summarizes Mother Teresa’s life and message. She sought to be an extension of God’s heart and hands in today’s world. She was called to be a missionary of charity, a carrier of God’s love to each person she met, especially those most in need. Yet she did not think that this was a vocation uniquely hers; she believed each person is in some way called to be a carrier of God’s love. Through the practical and timely advice she offers, Mother Teresa sets us on the path to closer union with God and greater love for our brothers and sisters.
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Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Author: Brian Kolodiejchuk (Introduction) Compiled and edited by Brian Kolodiejckuk, M.C., the Postulator of Mother Teresa’s cause for sainthood,
A Call to Mercy presents deep yet accessible wisdom on how we can show compassion in our everyday lives. Featuring never before published testimonials by people close to Mother Teresa as well as prayers and suggestions for putting these ideas into practice, A Call to Mercy is not only a lovely keepsake, but a living testament to the teachings of a saint whose ideas are important, relevant and very necessary in the 21st century.
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Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Author: Brian Kolodiejchuk
Mother Teresa's General Letters to Her Sisters is a collection of Mother Teresa's circular letters to the members of her religious congregation, the Missionaries of Charity Sisters. Not intended for those outside her community, they were written informally and spontaneously, often with little editing. It was for Mother Teresa a way of "being present" to the members of her rapidly expanding religious order.
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The exhibition on Mother Teresa: Life, Spirit and Message, originally prepared on the occasion of her beatification in Rome in 2003, and consequently reworked and adopted for many other events, tells the story of Mother Teresa’ s life, work and charism in text and picture.
Designed in 80 panels, the exhibition follows the stages of Mother Teresa’s biography, from her birth in Skopje, through her life as a Loreto nun in Calcutta, the inspiration to embark on the new mission among the poorest of the poor and the founding of her religious community and its expansion throughout the world. It shows the members of her religious community, the Missionaries of Charity (Sisters, Brothers and Fathers, as well as coworkers, volunteers and lay associates) hands on in the service of the poorest and the neediest.
The exhibition panels are often accompanied by Mother Teresa's relics (articles of her clothing and devotional items she used) and other artifacts of historical importance (awards or other honors she received) that are connected to her life and work.
The exhibition has been an inspiration to many and a means to come to know and love Mother Teresa and her mission and to be inspired to contribute their time and talents to the humble but important work of love she began.
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