Original subtitles

Hunger is not only for a piece of bread, hunger is for love.

A desire, a longing to be loved

and the lonely people suffer terrible hunger.

And nakedness is not only for a piece of cloth,

nakedness is that loss of human dignity,

the respect that you and I long to have,

they also long. That man lying in the street,

eaten up by worms. It is the child of God.

- She was a small, tiny, bent woman.

But she had a commanding presence.

You could feel an aura about her.

An aura not of power,

an aura of simplicity and holiness.

- The call to Mother, Jesus to Mother,

was to quench the thirst of Jesus

by serving the poorest of the poor.

- She was obeying a mission that was given to her.

And she responded with confidence.

And so she was a bold servant,

at the service of the kingdom of God.

- She was strong. She was firm.

She was a tough cookie.

In a sense that she was tough in Jesus.

She wanted to love until it hurts.

- What is God? God is love.

And what was Mother? Mother was love.

Mother was just a heart burning with love.

- She was radiating Christ.

She prayed that prayer every day,

"Dear Jesus, it's You shining on others through me."

She recognized that it was Christ. It was to be his light.

- Her holiness did not keep her away from people.

Rather, it brought her to the midst of people.

And when she heard "Come be my light,"

and she went to the dark holes of people,

so she wanted to be light in the midst of people.

- Lord, make me a channel of your peace.

That where there is hatred, I may bring love.

That where there is despair,

I may bring hope.

That where there are shadows,

I may bring light.

A KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Production

In Associaton with CASTLETOWN MEDIA and WAHL ST. PRODUCTIONS

Written and Directed by DAVID NAGLIERI

Produced by DAVID NAGLIERI and TIM MORIARTY

Executive Producers PATRICK KELLY

Executive Producers JONATHAN REYES

Executive Producers JAMES M. WAHLBERG

Director of Photography GEORGE HOSEK, CSC

Edited by MARC BOUDIGNON

MOTHER TERESA NO GREATER LOVE

(indistinct chatter)

(child crying)

- For Mother, it's not the poor.

It's the poorest.

That's the criteria.

(dog barking)

We have always to be in search of the poorest of the poor.

(indistinct chatter)

In Boa Vista, the capital of the norther Brazilian state of Roraima, Venezuelan refugees flee poverty and starvation.

They find consolation and sustenance from the Missionaries of Charity

- The Venezuelans encounter many difficulties to come here,

it is very dangerous.

The journeys are very long and they come here

without shoes.

Without clothes.

With nothing.

- We heard that there is a lot of people coming from Venezuela.

And they are sleeping on the streets.

So that's why we came, because we knew that

that is one of the things Mother would do.

(indistinct chatter)

Mother said, "If there will be poor in the moon,

I will go there too."

The coming of the Missionaries of Charity to Roraima

is a true living page of the Gospel.

The sisters continue following the example

of Mother Tersa of Calcutta,

Sain Teresa of Calcutta,

speaking to the hearts of migrants

through their attitudes,

through their service,

which is not assistance,

but restoration of dignity.

I came here once because I didn't

have enough to feed my daughters and I passed by.

That day I was so moved that I cried

with emotion, because they helped me,

when I really didn't have enough

to feed my daughters that day.

Thank God and I am here collaborating with them.

- Mother Teresa would be happy to see us here in this mission.

Because we can encounter really, the real Jesus.

Lonely...

hungry, thirsty, naked.

Walking barefoot.

We seek to see the face of Jesus

in the Venezuelans, and we find it.

(dog barking)

Ireland

On December 1, 1928, Sister Teresa of the Loreto Sisters embarks on a journey from Ireland to India.

There she will fulfill her lifelong dream of being a missionary.

- I wanted to be a missionary to go out

and give the life of Christ to the people.

(birds calling)

And it was at that time that some missionaries

told me that it was the Loreto nuns

who were doing the work in Calcutta and other places.

I offered myself and they sent me to India.

- Mother Teresa arrived to Calcutta on January 6, 1929,

the feast of the Epiphany.

And the Loreto sisters discovered

that she was a very gifted teacher.

And so after her first profession in 1931,

she was assigned to teach at Saint Mary's in Calcutta.

- In teaching, she came in touch with the realities

of the streets of Calcutta.

- She saw that these poor children

were neglected and her heart longed to do something for them.

- Bengal, India, of 1940s.

The city had a very, very, very hard time.

You had the World War.

So the essential commodities became very scarce

for the people.

Then that is followed by the Great Famine of Bengal.

Three million people died.

- In Bengal, there was also these political disturbances

going on especially between Muslims and Hindus.

(reporter). First pictures of a grim ordeal

during the worst riots in the history of Calcutta.

Trouble flared up in an orgy of looting and stabbing.

- There was what they call the Great Action Day

in Calcutta,

in which there was a terrible clash between

Hindus and Muslims.

5,000 men, they say, died mostly of knife wounds.

And then in the evening, she went out to get some food

to bring back to the convent.

Mother Teresa saw the beaten, bloodied, dead in the streets.

- Seeing the reality outside, what is going on outside,

that did have a very tremendous amount of impact

on Mother Teresa.

She wanted to respond to the sufferings of the people.

(train rattling)

- Mother Teresa had delicate health.

And so she was sent for a retreat and rest

to Darjeeling, where it's much cooler than Calcutta.

She was likely doing her morning meditation

when she heard the voice of Jesus.

- Now very clearly she hears a sound,

and Christ is speaking to her.

And she says that the call is a very clear message.

"You will have to go to the slums

and serve the poorest of the poor.”

That's the call, quenching the thirst of Christ.

- The mission of the Sisters is to satiate

the thirst of Jesus,

because Jesus, when he was dying on the cross

said, "I thirst."

But Jesus never asked for water.

He never asked for food.

He wanted souls.

So that's the reason that we offer our lives.

To bring the poor to Jesus and to bring Jesus to the poor.

- This, our home is called Home of Mercy.

It was begun in 1979

when the first group of Sisters arrived in Nairobi.

(indistinct chatter)

We have a home for special children,

severely and physically and mentally handicapped.

And Mother has visited this house several times.

And surely for Mother,

even though people suffer from physical disabilities,

they are created in the image and likeness of God.

Therefore, we must look beyond their disabilities.

And we must love them as God loves them.

(children squealing)

- We clothe them and we give them food,

and we give them shelter.

But we also give them their dignity.

Dignity of being the child of God.

Of being loved by God as they are.

(dishes clattering)

(indistinct chatter)

- Because we see the face of God in them,

whatever their situation, we stay with them.

Jesus, He said it in the Gospel of Saint Matthew.

That whatever you do to the least of my brethren

you did it to Me.

(indistinct chatter)

Give me a show of hands. How are you?

Good!

Praise the Lord?

Amen!

God is good?

All the time!

And all the time?

God is good!

Very good. Now clap for me.

(applause)

We welcome you all.

(cheering, applause)

Feel at home.

Feel it?

Home!

Who is this for?

For Mother Teresa!

For Mother Teresa.

- Mother said that what blood is to the body,

the prayer is to the soul.

So, for Mother, prayer, she tells us,

without the prayer, we cannot stand.

And she always tells us that if we cannot pray,

we cannot stay.

Because she said our work for the poor

is overflow of our love for Jesus.

And this love, we get it

only when we are in prayer.

(praying in Swahili)

(all): Amen.

(indistinct chatter)

- There is a little girl called Mary,

who was brought here by the mother.

And the mother said that, "I can't live with her,

because I have no way of taking care of her."

But from the very beginning,

the mother used to lock this child inside.

And she used to go to look for the work.

So, finally she just handed over this child to us.

She can't speak.

She only sings.

And for me what touches me, whenever she hears my voice,

she looks for me wherever I am.

I'm so touched by this child, because the child is blind.

You see, if this little girl,

if the mother could not find this place,

this girl could be on the street.

(singing)

I really see the face of God in this child.

Because she misses the mother.

And she doesn't know where is the mother,

and why I am here?

(giggling)

And there are others also who really long

for someone to touch them,

to feed them, to clean them.

Feeding is not enough.

Bathing them is not enough. But they need our love.

Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu is born August 26, 1910. in Skopje, then the capital of the province of Kosovo in the Ottoman Empire.

She is born into a Catholic ethnic Albanian family. A minority of a minority.

- Skopje was a city in 1910, which had Christians,

Muslims, Jewish people.

It was a multi-ethnic reality.

Mother Teresa was part of this Catholic culture

of the Albanians

who had passed through

400 years of Ottoman domination.

So Mother Teresa had these elements in her background.

- Mother Teresa's father was an entrepreneur.

He was a trader, a merchant,

and definitely was gifted for business.

He developed a construction company,

a wholesale business for food.

He was definitely a wealthy person.

But he told me that they were always very frugal,

they were not living a life of excess.

Religion was a central aspect

of our family life

because her mother

was very religious.

For Mother Teresa,

living a holy life was very importnant to her

and this came from her family.

- Mother Teresa, very often, spoke about her mother

and family members. She used to tell the stories

about when they were gossiping, she and her sister, one time,

and her mother heard about it and she said,

"We don't waste time and money for these kind of conversations."

"The family," she said, "was my first school."

"And my parents were my first teachers,

and especially my mother."

-In 1912 and 1913,

there were the Balkan wars,

and this changed the political reality.

When Serbia took over, Mother Teresa's father

was involved in politics for the Albanian cause.

So he went to Belgrade, Serbia

to protest the suppression of the Albanian culture.

- He was invited to a dinner in Belgrade.

And then, when he came back home, after a few hours,

he passed away.

My grandfather said that for sure 100% he was poisoned.

- Losing her father at the age of nine

certainly introduced Mother to the experience of suffering.

This suffering she came to embrace

as part of her spiritual journey.

The parish of the Sacred Heart was a pivotal influence

on Mother Teresa's spiritual development.

A Jesuit priest, Father Jambrenkovic,

became the pastor of Sacred Heart.

He had a great zeal for the missions,

and some of the Jesuits of his province

were working in Bengal.

And so it was through the stories that she heard,

and the publications and writings of these

Jesuit missionaries, that her vocation was born.

Mother Teresa said that she had her first sense

of a religious vocation at the age of 12.

It was at the Marian shrine of Letnicy...

In India, the Loreto Sisters were involved in education

and in medical work in clinics.

And so she made the decision to join the Loreto Sisters

at the age of 18.

- She told me this story that she wanted to go

to the Irish Loreto in Ireland.

Then she said that her mother became full of sorrow

to see her leaving.

And then she said, "If you want to go,

put your hand in the hand of Jesus, and never look back."

And that's what she did.

(rattling)

Cracolandia "Crackland" is located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Here drug dealers line the streets to sell their wares, and homeless addicts, banned even from the slums, live in squalor.

(indistinct chatter)

- The call to Mother was to go to the poorest of the poor.

And I think; in Brazil,

the darkest hole is the traffic of drugs

and drug addiction.

(indistinct chatter)

And this gives us the opportunity

to really go in search of souls.

(train hissing)

Yes, we are the same kind of Sisters!

I know, Mother Teresa of Calcutta!

- We have been visiting

and working trying to help people

who are involved in drugs,

because for us, they are Jesus.

Drug users in fact,

we turned into zombies

in search for drugs.

Living there is living as if

nothing else in the world existed besides drugs.

You only live for drugs,

drugs are your everything and everything.

(singing softly)

(indistinct chatter)

(birds chirping)

(praying softly)

(all singing)

The Sisters helped me with everything,

because I never thought I would

be able to stop taking drugs.

The biggest support that the Sisters really give me

is the spiritual support

of those who love me,

of hearing "I love you" from the Sisters.

Saying to myself anyway. "You can do it.

You're loved. Let's keep going."

No words to say about the Sisters.

The summary of the life of the Sisters,

the Missionaries of Charity

of Mother Teresa of Calcutta boils down to caring.

(indistinct chatter)

(laughing)

(distant car honking)

- Mother would say that Jesus in the poor

and Jesus in the Eucharist is the same.

And she said, if we lose the touch with the Eucharist,

we will lose the touch with the poorest of the poor.

I was always touched by what she told her Sisters,

that one cannot go out and serve the poor

if they have not first worshiped the Lord

because without this connection

they are social workers.

- Every person is Christ for me.

And that's why, since there is only one Jesus,

then that person is only one person for me

at that moment.

It is that continual contact with Christ

in his poor, like we have during Mass in the Blessed Sacrament.

(soft singing)

(praying softly)

- Mother taught us how to connect Jesus

in the Eucharist and Jesus in the poor.

So for me, it is very inspiring and touching

to touch the body of Jesus in the poor.

(baby crying)

- The commitment to service is a commitment to love.

Because as Mother said, "The fruit of love is service."

If I don't love, I can't serve.

(indistinct chatter)

- Haiti is one of the places which are really

materially, physically,

you can touch the poor people.

We are here mostly helping with the sick people.

(indistinct chatter)

- I was with her

in the dying home in Calcutta.

So now I am practicing what Mother Teresa taught me

with the sick and the dying

rejected and the unloved and unwanted.

(coughing)

- We have a home for the sick and dying patients.

We have 180 beds.

And we have people suffering with tuberculosis,

HIV, malnutrition,

cancer, pneumonia, heart problem,

and the people are so poor so they are not able to pay

the doctors in the private hospitals.

(indistinct chatter)

(indistinct chatter)

When Mother came the first time,

people also were living in the street here,

People were thrown in the hospital in a corner.

Children were malnourished.

I think it must have reminded her of India.

(birds chirping)

Listening to "The Voice," Mother Teresa leaves the Loreto convent and embraces a life of radical poverty and service to the poor.

- It was a call in the call.

It was a second calling,

a vocation to give up even Loreto.

And I was very happy and to go out in the streets

and serve the poorest of the poor.

(Muggeridge): What was the next move?

- The sisters started coming.

They also, one by one,

surrendered themselves to God

to serve the poorest of the poor.

- Our fourth vow actually comes from Saint Matthew's Gospel,

where Jesus says, "Whatever you do

to the least of my brothers, you did it to me."

So, Mother, often she used to speak about the gospel

on five fingers.

That is, "You did it to me."

- Mother started out walking through the back alleys

and the back streets.

I mean, who could walk through a back alley in India?

She had the seed of a deep, supernatural faith

that allow her to walk out into the streets with nothing.

- Mother once said, "By possessing nothing,

you have all things, you are free."

And Mother was free.

She had nothing,

she was single-minded, she was free.

- She was so full of confidence

that we, too, were sucked away

in the same current of confidence.

We never doubted for a moment.

- She's a single woman. She has no money.

She has no companion.

She has been teaching geography and catechism

in the security of a Loreto convent.

Into this world she steps

and she's a curious phenomenon.

She's wearing a sari that costs one rupee,

that the municipal sweep Persons wear,

but she's wearing it in the Bengali fashion.

Slowly, people recognize goodness when they see it.

- The sight of Mother Teresa in a sari was stunning.

She looked like a beggar woman in a cotton sari,

which only the poorest of the poor wore.

It was remarkable.

It was breathtaking. People thought she was crazy.

- In order to serve Indian people,

the poor in India, Mother felt,

"I must be an Indian myself."

She learned Bengali very well.

It was joy to see her speak Bengali.

(speaking Bengali)

And in all her attitudes,

including her habit.

The sari which she adopted for the congregation

is typically Indian. And she was very in cam ate

among the people she was serving.

(honking)

- By 1950, she becomes an Indian citizen

in the same year that our constitution is promulgated.

Her heart was here.

She always loved Calcutta

and one of the first to become an Indian citizen.

(indistinct chatter)

(indistinct chatter)

- When Mother began the work,

she saw the need of the poor in the slums.

(honking)

And soon she understood

that it was more what the poor needed.

It was a home, a heart that understands,

that loves, that cares for them.

- It was the first woman that I saw,

I picked up from the street,

she had been half eaten by the rats and ants.

I took her myself to the hospital.

And as they could not do anything,

from there I went to the municipality

and I asked them just to give me a place

where I could bring these people because on the same day,

I found more people dying in the streets.

The health officer took me to the Kali temple.

And we started the work

for the sick and dying destitute.

- Her home for the dying is next to the temple of Kali.

Now, Kali is a female goddess.

When Mother opened her house next to it,

priests in that temple of Kali started give her a hard time.

- There was a lot of objection from the locality.

They wanted to stone Mother,

because she was desecrating the temple

by bringing all these different castes of people inside.

So when this police officer went inside

and he saw what Mother was doing,

he came out and he told them,

"If you can get your wives and sisters to do this work,

then I will remove that woman from there."

- One great quality of Mother

was that she was respectful to all other faiths.

She would always say, "Be a better Christian,

a better Muslim, but I share my faith.

This is my belief that in each one, I see Jesus.

That's my belief. I serve them as children of God."

- When I was a volunteer in Kalighat, Mother came,

and the first thing she did was to go to the patients,

you know, to be with them,

and she would go one by one.

And that person was everything for her in that moment.

She was full of love, just love flowing out to them.

My contact with her was transformational.

There was, I mean, just being in the presence

of such a pure soul changes a person.

(indistinct chatter)

- Mother used to love to come to Kalighat

whenever she had time.

And the thing that Mother did

was to walk straight to the toilet at the back

and clean the toilets first

because she knew that the toilets

would be in a terrible condition.

- Mother told me, "Sister, we have the vows,

we must do the humble work.

When you have a chance to do the humble work,

grab the chance.

Do not leave it to someone else, but you do it."

- Mother likes that word, "wholehearted."

And she was wholehearted in doing humble,

small, everyday things,

because she was doing for Jesus deliberately.

There was a purpose, a purpose... That union with God.

- Mother Teresa is a spiritual daughter of Therese.

In fact, she takes the name from at that time,

newly canonized Thérèse of Lisieux.

Thérèse gives us famously "The Little Way," right,

which says, I think, in every moment of every day,

choose the path of love.

I can do even little things the little way with great love.

Mother Teresa took in that spirituality massively,

I think. And what she did was she applied it

in her situation in a very powerful way.

- One time, a rich businessman saw Mother working.

“"Mother, I would not do this work

if you paid me a million dollars."

And Mother Teresa smiled and said, "I also would not

do it for a million dollars. I do it for love of Christ."

(reporter). Seeing Mother Teresa and her tiny army

at battle with Calcutta's misery.

The question is, why do they bother?

There are those who argue that her approach does nothing

to eliminate the root causes of India's suffocating hardship.

- Because there are other people who can do that.

Mine is to pick up that person and help him,

if he has to die, to die with dignity.

And if he's hungry, just to feed him.

If he's naked, just to clothe him.

If he's homeless, just to give him a home.

(train horn blowing)

- People who had leprosy, they were rejected

from their families, they were thrown out

onto the streets. Even well-to-do people

who contracted leprosy.

And Mother Teresa wanted to change that understanding

of lepers as being cursed.

They are our brothers and sisters,

in need of love, in need of care.

And so, she started this work with the lepers.

- Mother began a home especially for the lepers.

And with the medications, proper food,

they were beginning to get to better.

And some of them still could not go back to the society,

because they were already labelled as lepers.

So, Mother began with them to make our saris.

So, our saris are made by our lepers.

And they have a job to do.

They can take care of their families.

So because they were so totally abandoned, neglected,

Mother wanted them to feel that they are also children of God.

(indistinct chatter)

- Kalighat was Mother's first love.

Shishu Bhavan is Mother's joy.

Mother's joy.

Because here she really felt that she was touching Jesus,

baby Jesus,

and she was radiant with joy to see the little babies.

Mother's heart ached for these little children

who were neglected by their families.

So Mother took in those little children.

And very often, Mother would take each child in her hand,

bless them, and caress them,

and make that child feel very loved and cared for.

(Muggeridge). When you say unwanted children,

you mean that they are...? - Nobody claims them.

They are brought here by mostly teenagers.

School girls and boys.

(Muggeridge): Who had a child...

(Mother Teresa): And they don't want them.

- Look at this tiny one.

(vehicles honking) I've never seen such a tiny baby.

- This one's two weeks old now.

Still, it has life. And the life of God is in her.

- Yes.

- She did not seek publicity.

When the first one came from England,

who wanted to write about her, a certain Malcolm Muggeridge,

she refused.

She did not seek publicity.

He went back to England and met the cardinal there,

who got in contact with the Vatican.

And the Vatican gave her the order,

"Let him write about you."

- The story of Malcolm Muggeridge

is that he first did an interview with Mother Teresa

on BBC TV.

There was such a positive reaction from the people

that they were wondering, who is this very special person?

Then Muggeridge went to Calcutta to make a film.

Along with the movie, there was a book,

and both were entitled Something Beautiful for God.

So, both the film and the book

made a large impact throughout the world.

- There was just something about her.

I would be in receiving lines with her

and people sometimes would be just overcome

with emotion just by touching her.

So there was a luminosity to Mother.

- Greatest person ['ll ever meet in my life.

- | figure she's the closest to a saint I'll ever meet.

-And I think all that light you saw was the light of Christ.

- When I was in high school,

I saw Something Beautiful for God.

And I would say that was incredibly inspiring to me

to see that there's this woman in the world,

who was considered to be a living saint.

I was curious, maybe a little bit skeptical,

that there could be a living saint working among us.

And a sit is, with a lot of our lives,

I think God plants that seed in your life,

and, you know, it just grows.

(shutter clicking)

- In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

(all): Amen.

- The time that I spent with Mother Teresa

was just incredible for my life.

I've been blessed for the amount of opportunities

that I had photographing her.

I've documented seven presidents and 40 Nobel Peace laureates,

but there was nobody like Mother.

You know, Mother with her face,

when she smiled with the lines in her face,

it was almost like an exclamation mark of joy.

I found her to be such a striking,

interesting woman to photograph.

One of the great honours of my life, in fact,

was that particular image celebrating Mother Teresa.

It appeared three different times on the cover

of Time Magazine.

Being with Mother in her presence

was just extraordinary.

She just had such a presence,

a beautiful presence about her and a charisma.

But you also realized that this is a living saint

that you're with.

Throughout 1946-47, Mother Teresa remains a Loreto Sister and continues to hear the voice of Jesus.

These conversations and visions were unknown to all during her lifetime.

When Mother Teresa's cause for canonization was opened in 1999, letters were found in the archives of the Archbishop's House and the Jesuits of Calcutta, revealing these dialogues.

- After the death of Mother Teresa,

I began work on the cause of canonization.

In the course of our research,

we discovered many letters that were written

to her spiritual advisors.

The first thing we discovered was that in 1942,

she made this remarkable vow to God,

never to refuse Him anything,

or to give Him whatever He would ask.

Four years later, as part of her dialogue with Jesus,

He keeps on asking her, "Wilt thou refuse?"

Jesus kept pleading with Mother saying things like,

"Come, come, carry me into the holes of the poor,

come, be my light, be my fire of love."

- These visions and these inspirations

were the starting point for Mother Teresa.

Now I have seen her coming, quite regularly,

to Father Van Exem for spiritual guidance.

And it is because of Father Van Exem's guidance

that she was able to get clarity in her mission,

and then start on this work.

- Mother Teresa kept pressuring him to destroy these letters,

but thankfully, Father Van Exem preserved these letters

because he realized that they were real spiritual treasures

important for understanding Mother Teresa's life

and the charism of the sisters.

So Fr. Van Exem decided that this inspiration

needed testing, to make sure it was not just something

simply human.

And so, he ordered Mother Teresa not even to think about it.

But by January 1947,

he realized that he could not stop Mother Teresa

anymore from writing to the Archbishop.

Archbishop Perrier didn't accept immediately

that this was from God.

And so he said, "No, I need to pray,

reflect and consult."

And that's what he did over the course of the next year.

Finally, in January 1948,

he discerns that the call is authentic.

And this begins the process that allowed Mother Teresa

to begin her work by the end of the year.

I met Mother in Rome in 1997.

I just made my first vows

and Mother told me,

"You are going to Brazil."

Mother said, "Bring them to Jesus."

So, that is what we have done here.

The journey is very far with a boat.

And the communities are very far.

And they like to see the Sisters coming

to teach them, to speak about God.

To help them materially, spiritually.

(indistinct chatter)

Let's start the creation catechesis.

On the first day, God created the sun.

Raise your hand, the sun.

The second day?

The sky. Third day?

The earth, trees, flowers.

The Sisters here, they take care of the needy children.

This area here, there are very needy children.

so some days they wait.

This would be their only meal.

They are waiting here for the moment.

Then, when the Sisters serve,

they eat, they are satisfied,

but they always want to take it home,

because food is also lacking at home.

The children, they come because

they need the food.

They need the spiritual food

because they don't have.

(laughing)

It's like the way we need to have food

for our material, for our own body.

We need also spiritual things.

And I believe if Mother was still alive today,

she could have been so grateful to see us

going to the places where

really we are needed.

Tere is still so much work for us to do.

(indistinct chatter)

- What God is saying to you this morning,

you are the people who love.

Love is what is missing in our world today.

Mother Teresa said, "Love until it hurts."

Are we loving until it hurts,

or do we move away when the time gets hard?

Let us be people of faith.

In the name of the Father, Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

- Amen.

(applause)

Sr. M. Bernice, MC is the first African American Missionary of Charity.

She serves the poor and homeless in the Bronx.

- Hot coffee.

- I grew up in the ghettos of Baltimore City.

| lived in 11 different ghettos.

We had to run to beat the rent man.

And it prepared me to work with Mother Teresa.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Dear Heavenly Father, here is your servant.

He is in need of help.

He is in need of prayer.

You don't worry about anything, my child.

I met Mother Teresa when we left here

to go for postulancy in Chicago.

So, when we arrived in Chicago,

the gangs had taken over that area.

They began terrorizing the apartment buildings

and putting children and adults on drugs.

And so when we arrived,

we could see the rifles surrounding us,

shooting at us every day.

So we notified Mother Teresa,

and she came, and we were so relieved to see our mother,

because we knew maybe she would take us out of there.

She called us together.

She said, "Sisters, I sent you here to love.

We can turn hate into love."

And then she said, "Take me now to the places,

to the door where they are shooting us."

We could not believe it.

So we started walking towards the door.

The rifles were pointed out and kept shooting at us.

Not one bullet touched us.

And when we reached the door,

this big man said to Mother Teresa,

"Mother, you can't come in here,

I have business in here."

And Mother put her head down.

And she looked up at him and she said,

"I too have business in here.

Let us make a deal”

The man was so shocked

that Mother would speak this way.

And then he said,

"You must be a saint.

You can come in here, Mother.

But I can't stop my business.

But I will protect your sisters."

And we went every day for one year

in that building and came out safely.

Mother Teresa did another beautiful thing.

She said, "Sisters, invite the gangs

to eat in the soup kitchen."

And so, we served the gang

that was shooting at us.

Holy Mary, Mother of God.

When we speak about Mother,

her highest characteristic was her merciful love

for everyone.

She wouldn't care if they was a killer,

or robber, or drug addict.

You're children of God,

and they have an opportunity to go into heaven.

Anybody else need a prayer?

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

(speaking Spanish)

My dear son, you don't worry.

And I know your heart, you have a kind,

generous heart.

He knows in your heart the love that you have for Him.

And guess what?

You will be able to hold on

and hold out,

because you are precious to Him.

You are loving to Him.

- Thank you. - Take care, hear?

Take care of yourself, hear?

Son and Holy Spirit. God bless you, my son.

- The Norwegian Nobel committee

has awarded the Nobel Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa.

(over tapping reporting) - They announced the Nobel

Peace Prize today... - Mother Teresa...

- Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...

- Prize went to a Roman Catholic nun in India.

- Mother Teresa really burst onto the scene

in a very special way in 1979,

when she received the Nobel Peace Prize.

- Today, when I have received this award,

I personally am most unworthy.

But I'm grateful and I'm very happy

to receive it in the name of the hungry,

of the naked, of the homeless,

of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers.

Of all those people who feel unwanted,

unloved, uncared.

(shutters clicking)

- I think she accepted all the celebrity,

the attention, the honours,

because she saw it as an opportunity

on the grand stage to be an advocate for the poor.

She wouldn't have done it otherwise,

she hated having her photo taken.

She hated publicity, she suffered the celebrity.

But she accepted it if it was going to help the poor.

And no one's poorer than that unborn child.

-And I feel one thing I want to share with you all.

The greatest destroyer of peace today

is the cry of the innocent, unborn child.

To me, the nations who have legalized abortion,

they are the poorest nation.

For the child is the greatest gift of God to a family,

to a nation and to the whole world.

God bless you!

(applause)

- When Mother Teresa spoke to world leaders about abortion,

they were shocked.

No one had ever spoken like this before

with such clarity and conviction.

And she was reminding them that if we truly want

to live up to the ideals of justice and equality,

then that has to start with respecting the dignity

and the worth of every human life.

There is no better messenger than Mother Teresa for this

because she lived it every day, she embodied this.

Mother Teresa was an inspiration to the pro-life cause

precisely because she saw the face of Christ

in the poor and the vulnerable.

And for her, the vulnerable included the pregnant mother

and her unborn baby.

Mother Teresa's message of the dignity and the worth

of every human life united her with another spiritual giant

of the 20th century, Saint John Paul II.

(crowd shouting)

(reporter). The Pontiff ministered to the destitute,

the dying, and the poor in Mother Teresa's compound.

Vatican spokesmen said they had never seen the Pope so moved

as he was by the work of the 75-year-old

Nobel Peace prize winner.

- When John Paul II visited Calcutta,

Mother Teresa called it the happiest moment of her life.

It was very powerful,

these two people coming together

who had made a gift of themselves to others.

For John Paul I, the human person

is made out of love, for love.

So we can only truly find ourselves

when we make a sincere gift of ourselves to others.

And I think this is what John Paul ll saw

in Mother Teresa. He saw in a concrete way

that she lived this out every day.

(indistinct chatter)

(applause)

(speaking in Italian)

-The Missionaries of Charity, by creating the Dono di Maria,

the Gift of Mary, home for the poorest of the poor,

at one corner of the Vatican was for John Paul I,

something the world needed to see

about the Catholic Church. This is who we really are.

We are many things, but this is at the core

of what it means to be the Church of Jesus Christ.

He said to me once, we didn't need a lot of words.

I think they recognized in each other

the truth of something Pope Paul VI said,

which is that modern man listens more readily

to witnesses than to teachers.

And if he listens to teachers, it's because they're witnesses.

Mother Teresa was a living embodiment

of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And therefore, in the Pope's mind,

the embodiment of that truth of the modern world,

that witness is what brings people to the Lord Jesus.

- I went to Jordan. - Jordan?

Very good, sisters.

- She went to Sweden. - God bless you.

To Jordan... - Jordan and Sweden.

- New houses. - New houses right.

- John Paul ll and Mother Teresa were very good friends,

and they were certainly on the same spiritual wavelength.

And even he instructed her once to accept invitations

to go to different places because he said,

"You go where I cannot go."

- From Holland. - Holland?

(speaking Dutch)

(laughing)

(indistinct chatter)

- When you were with Mother on a rip,

- When you were with Mother on a rip,

Mother would be up at five,

you would go into the night, you were at full speed.

And there was this grace about her that poured off of her

that you received.

And she totally operated on grace.

(reporter 1): " want to go where I am needed."

Mother Teresa spoke those words today

after arriving at a convent near Beirut.

The frail Nobel Peace Prize winner has been sent to Lebanon

as the envoy of Pope John Paul ff.

(reporter 2): This morning, there were stiff 30 children

inside the mental hospital where we'd found children

dying of starvation.

it all stemmed from the direct intervention of Mother Teresa

of Calcutta, who'd come into West Beirut this morning

to get these children out herself.

(reporter 3): Mother Teresa will join the efforts

to convince Lebanese radicals

to free kidnapped American journalist Terry Anderson.

(reporter 4): Words of peace and goodwill for Mother Teresa

today as she arrived in Moscow. The Roman Catholic nun

is there trying to extend her charity work

to the Soviet Union, a country that is officially atheist.

(Mother Teresa). Very difficult to explain the suffering

of the people. Nobody can understand

actually what it is and why it is.

(interviewer): Are you despairing yourself?

- Oh, no, not at all. Not at all.

Great things will come out of this.

A sister from Ethiopia phoned me

and said our people are dying,

our children are dying, Mother, do something.

And immediately. I wrote to the president.

And next day, it was arranged to bring food

to our suffering people in Ethiopia.

(reporter 5). Nothing compared to the work this frail,

small woman has done helping the world's poor and sick.

She changes lives one at a time with a smile.

Just ask Officer Andre Rodriguez,

part of her protective detail.

(Rodriguez): She gives them out to the people.

People come up to the car and she doesn't care.

She gets out. She'll give medals away. She's terrific.

(reporter 5). Officer Andre Rodriguez said

he'll pin his medal on his shirt over his heart.

(reporter 6). Mother Teresa asked Governor Cuomo

for a Christmas present today, and she got it

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize asked the governor

to release three inmates with AIDS into her care.

They were there to open a hospital for AIDS patients.

(Mother Teresa): We are hoping that they will be able

to live and die in peace

by getting tender love and care,

because each one of them

is Jesus in the distressing disguise.

- The new sickness of AIDS horrified the world

in the '80s.

Mother understood these are now the new lepers of society.

- It was a unique time before medications

to aid the scourge of that disease were developed,

because men died quickly,

and this was a different kind of Kalighat here.

- My name is Gene Principe.

I'm a volunteer with the sisters.

I'm 91-years-old.

And I've been active with the sisters

since 1983.

(indistinct chatter)

Christmas Eve, 1985,

Mother Teresa, she opened the first AIDS house in America.

We had a capacity of 12 beds,

and three would die each month.

We were living really in a different world.

And some of the people who had AIDS told us

at the hospital, they would leave the food

by the edge of the door,

and they couldn't get out of the bed.

They were so scared, whereas with us,

boom, we bathed them, washed them,

changed their diapers, et cetera.

So and that was Mother, oh yeah.

Because that's what she was doing in India

and all over the world, you know,

so it just kept on going.

- The stigma of having AIDS,

you know, and where society was at the time,

you were either gay, or an intravenous drug user.

Typically, that was 90 some percent of the cases.

And so as a result, you know, there was a real stigma.

There was a need in Washington, D.C. as well.

And when Mother opened this home,

we faced an enormous amount of opposition.

(applause)

- This was the AIDS patient section.

So you can see each one,

and these are the rooms where so many died.

When we began this house, we were not accepted at all

by the neighbourhood. They didn't want AIDS patients here,

because there was such a fear, you know,

and when we'd walk around, they'd say,

"Get away, AIDS sisters! Get away, AIDS sisters!"

And we experienced what the AIDS patients experienced.

- We are just praying every day for that, for the community.

(indistinct chatter)

- Happy birthday. - Thank you.

- Forty-four? - No.

(laughing) - Seventy-five!

- Jerome, Connie, she died downstairs.

I knew all these people. Stephanie...

(reading name)

It was not unlike Kalighat in Calcutta,

what you saw, many of these men were emaciated and gaunt,

and yet their beauty was indomitable,

and their god given dignity.

And the sisters were so lovely

in recognizing that these men and women

were longing to love and to be loved.

- I think she also felt that she had this mission

in the west you know,

she knew that there were individuals

that were left on the streets, unloved, uncared for,

rejected by society, lonely,

and she felt that that was the biggest disease of the West.

(indistinct chatter)

- She spoke simply, but she was not simple.

She just spoke the truth,

but when she spoke, there was no judgment.

She spoke with love and compassion.

She was like the New Testament 101.

If you just read the Gospels, that was Mother.

Her joy was in letting people experience God's love.

- It was the love and the grace that you felt

even if she was speaking to you, and there were

25 people in the room.

It would be as though you were the only person in the room.

And that's how she always was.

- There is two kinds of poverty.

We have the poverty of material, for example

in some places like in India in Ethiopia,

and other places where the people are hungry

for a loaf of bread, areal hunger.

But there is much deeper, much greater hunger.

And that is the hunger for love.

And that terrible loneliness

and being unwanted, unloved.

Being abandoned by everybody.

(distant sirens wailing)

(indistinct chatter)

- In 1990, we had a terrible crack cocaine epidemic

going on throughout America and in our city.

(indistinct chatter)

(crying)

- I saw all the babies going through withdraw,

you know, they're shaking.

So I decided to bring public attention

to this issue through Jelani house.

And these were the doctors and nurses

from San Francisco General taking care of the babies.

- You know what? I appreciate just to know

that Saint Mother Teresa came here years ago.

- Mother Teresa was in town,

and we got in touch with her,

and she says, "Yes, I want to see it."

-And we went to Jelani House

and there were some 17, 18,

pregnant, addicted, crack cocaine mothers there

going through withdrawal.

- When she walked in the room, it was...

Um...

...50 powerful.

And you could tell instantly

that she was connecting with the women.

- So it was announced to us that she was going to come

to the house. So I was like,

"Why would this lady, you know, care about us?"

Nobody cared about us. We were drug addicts,

you know, and pregnant drug addicts at that,

and I was kind of standoffish when meeting her.

But she was just so pleasant and inviting,

and she didn't pass any judgment.

The first thing that just really threw me

was her stature. She was just this little lady,

but she was just strong.

You could see that, you could feel that in her.

And when she opened her mouth,

the sincerity, the compassion,

just being so empathetic to our plight.

You know, what she did was she prayed for us

and she talked to us about ways to improve our lives

and our unborn babies' lives,

and believing in ourselves,

making goals for ourselves, and what have you.

She was just really, just so sincere

and so real about it. And I was like...

"Wow." And it was just almost like a burden

off of my shoulder, knowing that we're not

in this struggle by ourselves.

I was like, okay, okay. I could do this.

I can make some goals for myself and start accomplishing them.

I had the opportunity to meet Mother Teresa,

and that was a very, very big and important part

of turning my life around.

This is my daughter now, 29 years later, and her son.

My Jelani House baby.

(distant sirens wailing)

(distant sirens wailing)

- When I talk about my childhood,

I think I always want to talk about it

in relation to my faith, or lack thereof.

There was never an explanation of a loving God.

All I ever heard was, "God's gonna get you."

So that sort of all formed this young man

that was starved for love and attention.

You know, so I was looking for that attention

in the streets.

By the time I was 12-years-old, I became a ward of the state.

I got into cocaine heavily.

I was arrested for robbing a cop's house

and I ended up, I got six to nine years.

So it was soon after that, that I was approached

by Father Jim Freitas at the prison.

And he comes to me and he says, very excited,

"We have a special guest coming to the prison

in two weeks." And I'm like, "Really, Father?

Who's that?" He says,

"Mother Teresa is coming to this prison."

I said, "Oh, that's fantastic. Father, that's so great.

Who's Mother Teresa?"

And so, you know, over the course

of the next two weeks, I did a little research

and understood sort of the magnitude,

but I had no concept of what it would mean to me.

And the day came, and | remember here's this little woman

that okay, now this is the person that they told me

is coming, this is Mother Teresa.

And I remember, I did have a sense of..

I felt as though I was seeing true humility.

And I remember there was a sense

that I was looking at the face of God.

It was that profound for me.

It was that impactful for me.

The words that she said changed my life.

The words that she said changed my life.

She got up and she just told us the facts.

And the facts were that we were children of God,

that Jesus Christ died for us.

And that we were more than the prison numbers

that they gave us.

And we were more than the crimes that we committed, right?

That God loved us.

And I remember going back to my cell

and not really being able to sleep.

And I remember when the doors opened the next morning,

kind of running back to Father Freitas

and saying to him, "Father, I don't...

I don't know what's going on, but I need to know more about...

...the God that she's talking about

and not the God that I was raised with.

I need to know more about this Jesus

that she's talking about.”

And now I look back and I know,

and I tell people, I've said it thousands of times to people,

I was given the gift of Jesus revealing Himself to me

by way of Mother Teresa.

And that's the way | looked at it,

like God sent her there specifically for me.

She went through years and years

feeling abandoned by God, that He was not there,

that she did not feel His presence.

But every day, she got up and did His bidding.

And this is what has always been so important to me

about having Mother Teresa as an intercessor,

but also just having her as an example.

- Now, right through history, all the great saints,

- Now, right through history, all the great saints,

Teresa of Avila comes immediately to mind,

had great doubts about their faith.

They had great moments of absolute darkness

when they wondered if there was a God a tall.

Have you ever had that darkness?

- We all have to go through it, yes.

But that is the challenge. That is the time

when we have to take greater grip

and accept it as a sign of purification

and greater love.

That's the cross at that time.

- When you say we have to take great grip,

what exactly do you do

when you have a moment of darkness?

- Cling to Christ, because He is the only answer.

- Mother Teresa strove to be the light of God's love

to those who were experiencing darkness.

Paradoxically, a totally unexpected result of this

was that she herself would live

in a terrible, agonizing darkness.

- When Father Brian sent me the galley proofs

of Come Be My Light which is going to expose

this darkness that Mother lived,

my jaw dropped as I read this account of her darkness

and feeling rejected by God.

It blindsided us to read the extent of this

in her letters that were just crying out her pain.

- Initially, the experience of darkness

was not only agonizing but also surprising.

However, gradually, she came to understand

with the help of her spiritual directors,

that this experience of darkness was essential

to living her vocation.

It was a sharing in the Passion of Christ,

in the garden and on the cross,

and the highest expression of her love for God

and His poor.

- It was never a crisis of faith with Mother,

it was only a trial.

This is the same trial that many of our great saints

had gone through years past.

Saints like Padre Pio, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux,

all had the dark night of the soul,

but I would say with Mother it was different

because it was 50 years.

- About suffering,

Mother would say to us

that our work is not social work,

but it is part of their redemption.

And God, Jesus chose suffering and pain to save us.

So, we have to share the poverty of the poor people.

Also the spiritual poverty has to be redeemed,

and we have to share in it.

- You cannot work with the poor unless you suffer like them.

You suffer, you share in their suffering,

you share also in their darkness.

And I think Mother was so much close to the poor

that she was sharing in their darkness.

One thing that I would like

to be well known

is the pain for having left

her mother in Albania.

This pain accompanied Mother Teresa all her life.

Mother Teresa felt this desire

for holiness even stronger

because she was convinced that the moment

she arrived at the gates of Heaven,

she would meet her mother,

who would say, "You cannot enter!"

And of course she also joked about it,

but evidently she felt this a lot.

For decades Mother Teresa tried in vain to visit her mother and sister in Albania.

However, the communist regime denied her requests.If she entered Albania, she would not be able to leave the country.

Finally, after great international pressure, she is permitted to visit in 1989.

- We went to Albania.

And the first thing Mother asked,

" would like to go to my Mother's tomb

and to my sister's tomb."

So, they took us to the tomb.

Mother bowed on the tomb and stayed for some time.

And even I could see her tears.

Then she said, "I would like to give to Albania a gift,

my sisters, to give to my people.”

And so Mother wrote a letter and gave it to the president.

So we got the permission, and in '91,

the Sisters arrived in Albania for the first time.

This house in Shkodra was opened

in sixt of April 1991.

And the same day in the afternoon

Mother has gone to visit the hospital

for the handicapped and disabled children.

(laughing)

And then she went to the hospital

and brought these children

but personally I've never seen

handicapped children more sickly like that.

And Mother was carrying these children.

They're all skin and bones.

And the way she was taking them

to wash, to give bath.

(indistinct chatter)

(laughing)

And so as the years pass,

we continue this apostolate Mother started.

We have taken also the girls

from the orphanage.

These girls who are disabled.

They were somehow forgotten

and abandoned by the families.

(indistinct chatter)

People were changed.

That time during communism,

It was a shame

for those who had a handicapped person.

And now our home had changed

the mentality of the people,

that it is not a shame

to have somebody who is handicapped.

They are still loved and cared.

- Mother Teresa's life was an inspiration

to many people.

So the number of Sisters increased.

And many people invited Mother Teresa to open houses

in different parts of the world.

- Mother used to say,

"Every house is a tabernacle for Jesus."

She would not call it a house.

We are opening a new tabernacle.

We are bringing Jesus. Jesus is there.

- After the first house,

first convent outside of India was Venezuela.

From there, it began to spread.

At present, we have

764 tabernacles in the world.

- I don't think Mother Teresa would have had the idea

that the work would have expanded as it did,

especially outside of India.

In 1963, the active brothers began in Calcutta.

Then in 1976,

Sister Nirmala formed the contemplative branch

of the sisters.

Then it was the contemplative brothers.

And finally, the priests began in 1984.

So it's a full religious family

with five main branches.

And then there is the Corpus Christi movement

for priests, the lay Missionaries of Charity,

and I Thirst Movement.

And without the help of all these laypeople,

the work of the Missionaries of Charity

would not be able to be done.

-In 1997,

I was burned out by the business world.

I decided to come and do something for migrants.

They suggested I come here to the Missionaries of Charity

and they directed me in the ways of Mother Teresa's model

of going to the holes of the poor.

The canal, to me, it's an incredible combination

of a lot of things.

There's migrants trying to get across,

there are deportees trying to figure out

how to go someplace.

And all in between that are drugs.

From people being rejected.

Their need to be filled with something.

Look at all the junk. It gets washed down.

That's life in the canal right there.

We pass out the bags full of soap,

shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste,

and then we included sandwiches.

Dios te ama, chiquita.

(speaking Spanish)

I met one of the sisters that was with Mother Teresa

at the beginning.

And when I asked the question,

"How did you bring God into the scene?"

And she said that they would say God loves you,

and that the soul knows that, not just your world.

So I have started, each time I give out a sandwich,

each time I do something, Dios te ama, God loves you.

That became a very important connection to Mother Teresa.

Come over!

For me, Mother Teresa's a model

of how to deal with poverty.

The model is...

doing small things with great love.

In 1997, Mother Teresa is declining in health.

Sister Nirmala is elected Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity.

- It was, for me, a time of grace

to be with Mother my first six months

as Superior General.

She was there right by my side,

to guide me, to teach me.

It was a wonderful thing to see her humility

and her desire to be nothing.

It was a very beautiful time of grace.

(praying softly)

(reporter). Mother Teresa cited her own frail health

as a reason for stepping down.

(over tapping reporting) - Mother Teresa suffered

another heart attack... - Hospital officials say

the pacemaker was implanted... - Mother Teresa is in

intensive care being treated for pneumonia...

- She wanted to go home yesterday and then took

a tum for the worse.

- When Mother Teresa died, it was a shock.

I know it was a global shock.

And it was a shock to the whole country, India.

(indistinct chatter)

(bell ringing)

(sobbing)

(all praying)

- I'm very distressed and sorry

to hear of the death of Mother Teresa.

It makes me extremely sad

to speak of her death.

- When the funeral took place,

the procession took place from Saint Thomas parish,

of course to the stadium.

There were thousands of people,

leave alone the global leaders who had come.

- Many people said there was a very special atmosphere

in Calcutta during that week.

The whole cross section of society,

coming to see Mother and pay last respects to her.

It was like Calcutta and India couldn't do enough

to express who Mother was for them.

- The inscription on her tomb was, from Saint John,

"Love one another as I have loved you,"

quoting Christ, and I think that was Mother's

greatest, greatest legacy.

- She would tell me, "When I am going home to God,

I can help you better."

And she's doing that. That's what I am sure of it.

- The beatification, the ceremony itself,

it was a beautiful experience.

When her picture was unveiled.

And it was a miracle.

People never expected to see Mother

in a Indian position of friendship,

of peace, of respect.

And so all the people were...

The people were touched, they were touched.

It was a picture with a smile.

She had the ray of light,

so it was the message, "Come be my Light."

(praying in Portuguese)

I met Marcilio in March 2000.

What I liked most about him was his simplicity.

We were engaged when he took a job,

and moved to Rio de Janeiro.

Then, as he was alone there,

he began to feel unwell.

I started having strong seizured form blacking out.

I started to have more imbalance,

I also had double vision, convulsions,

the cognitive part got worse,

and the physical part.

In October 2008,

after my wedding,

I had a really bad seizure and I went to the hospital.

When he looked at my X-ray,

he looked at the X-ray like that and said,

"Marcilio has brain abscesses."

They started to treat it with antibiotics,

but nothing worked.

One abcess, 30% die.

Two abscesses, more than 80% die.

Three or more, 100% incompatible with life.

One of the bscesses got so big

that it started retaining fluid in my head.

The more it got worse, the more I Intensified the prayers

I asked everyone I met. I said,

"Oh, pray for Marcilio."

Father Elmiran,

from the Parish of Aparecida

he gave a relic to Fernanda of Mother Teresa,

and he said, "Pray to Mother Teresa

who is a merciful person. She looked after the poor

she looked after the sick and she will look after you for sure."

I prayed with the relic on his head.

I said, "For the love of God, take Jesus by the hand,

and heal Marcilio."

I prayed so hard

that I fell asleep praying.

When I woke up the next day, I went to the hospital

and the abscesses were 80% reduced,

so the fluid was trapped in the brain,

which required surgery to be drained,

was drained naturally

Three days later, he had a new MRI

and he had no abscess.

Fernanda said to everyone,

"Marcilio was a miracle of Mother Teresa, a miracle."

From that moment on, we were sure

that Mother Teresa

was going to look after us.

The doctor told Fernanda that I couldn't have children,

because of the medication I took.

We prayed to Mother Teresa also

that we would have children.

Then, right after I returned to Rio de Janeiro,

two or three months later,

Fernanda got pregnant,

and I believe it was an extension of the miracle.

"Was Mother canonized by the miracle of Marcilio?"

I say, "No,

the miracle of Marcilio was what

allowed canonization,

but Mother was already a saint."

Mother Teresa loved to say,

"Perhaps I don't speak their language,

but I can smile."

Let us carry her smile in our hearts...

(applause)

Let us carry her smile in our hearts

and give it to those whom we meet

along our journey.

May she be your model of holiness!

(applause)

(interviewer): How do you think she wanted to be remembered?

- How does Mother want to be remembered? She doesn't.

(laughing)

Because she wanted it to be about Jesus.

It was never about her.

It was all about Jesus.

And she said she was a pencil in the hand of God,

that He wrote love letters to the world with.

- When your lifetime's work is finally over,

will your organization carry on?

- Oh, yes. It is not I who are doing it.

It's God's work.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into

the doing that makes all the difference.

As Mother Teresa said, this drop

of holiness

that seems nothing,

but is very importnant,

because from the drops the river is formed,

from the river the sea, from the sea the ocean,

so we are importnant as we are

even if we are small drops

in the world,

but our presence is importnant

when we represent God.

- Mother Teresa taught us that there are no expendable people.

That everyone has dignity and worth

because everyone is made in the image and likeness of God.

So when she was feeding the hungry

or holding the hand of someone who was dying,

she was doing that to the most important person in her life,

Jesus Christ Himself.

In all of this, she was teaching us to have a heart that sees.

And if we can do this,

if we can see the world and each other

more like Mother Teresa did,

then the world would be a radically different,

and I think, better place.

(Mother Teresa): We are now all over the world,

and trying to bring the tenderness

and the love of Jesus.

And you, you cannot go where we go.

You cannot do what we do.

But together, we are doing something

beautiful for God.

And my prayer for you.

That you may grow in holiness.

Through this tender love...

...for the poorest of the poor.

This love begins at home,

in your own family.

And if you see God in each other...

...you will have love, peace, joy together.

And works of love...

...are works of peace.