Ava Thompson

Mother Teresa
Annotated Bibliography
Works Cited
Secondary Sources
Biography.com Editors. "Mother Teresa Biography." The Biography.com Website, A&E
Telivision Networks, 6 Sept. 2016, www.biography.com/people/mother-teresa-9504160.
Accessed 20 Nov. 2016. -Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries
of charity a roman catholic congregation of woman dedicated to helping the poor. Mother
Teresa is a Nun, and was just recently canonized to be saint. Mother Teresa taught in
India for 17 years until she devoted her life to the sick and poor. Her centers established a
home fro the aged, blind, and disabled.

Bradshaw, Lauren. Reading. This paper was about how Mother Teresa was a person that was
admired and respected. She was a person that made an impact on your life and made
people loot at the world with a different eye. Even though the world is full of good
people, great humanitarians, people who donate billions of dollars, who raise their voices
to make a difference, Mother Teresa stands out in the crowd, she was a very unique
person.

The Canonization of Mother Teresa. The New York Times. In an Indian city that has expressed
ambivalence about the work of a missionary who made it her home, praise carried the
day of her canonization by Pope Francis. The canonization on Sunday morning honors a

lifetime working with the poorest of the poor, first in the slums of Kolkata, India, and
then in other parts of the world.

Chamaria, Vikash. "Important India." Important India.com, Vikash Chamaria, 26 May 2016,
www.importantindia.com/. Accessed 20 Nov. 2106. Mother Teresa is also known as
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Her earlier name was Anjeze Gonxhe
Bojaxhiu. She was born on 26th August, 1910 at the then Yugoslavia (now
Macedonia). She came to India in 1929. Mother Teresa was Roman Catholic nun moved
to Calcuttas slum to serve God among the poorest of the poor.In 1950, She
established the Missionaries of Charity to help the poor, helpless, disabled, diseased,
refugees and lepers. Today, the Missionary is present in more than 100 countries.She was
awarded the title of Padma-Shri in 1962. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Later, in 1980, she received conferred the title of Bharat-Ratna, the highest civilian
award in India. She is the first citizen of India to win Nobel Peace Prize.She devoted her
life in the service of humanity. She had deep love for Jesus Christ. She adopted a simple
living style. She wore a plain white saree with blue border. She also acquired Indian
citizenship.

Cortes, Paulina. Mother Teresa Smudge Painting. 2014. This painting shows Mother Teresa in a
relaxed position staring in front of her. It is a smudge painting of Mother Teresa and
honoring the work she dedicated to the poor and sick. And how her organization does so
much all over the world. And their dedication, effort, and time they put into all of their
work.

Habarta, Petr. "List 25." Facts about Mother Teresa, List 25, 6 Sept. 2016, list25.com/25fascinating-facts-about-mother-teresa-and-her-extraordinary-life/. Accessed 18 Nov.
2016. -Mother Teresa's canonization to be a Siant.

- "Mother Teresa was born on 26 August 1910, but she later considered 27 August, the day she
was baptized, to be her "true birthday."-For most of her life, Mother Teresa helped the
poor. However, contrary to some popular beliefs, she herself was not born into a poor
family. Her family was financially secured and owned two houses.-Both of Mother
Teresa's parents were Kosovo-Albanians, but she was born in Skopje, the current capital
of Macedonia. Back in 1910, the city was a part of the Ottoman Empire.-Mother Teresa
spent most of her life in India, where she arrived in 1929, aged 19. She once said, "By
blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, I am 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.

Mini Bio: Mother Teresa. She is an icon of compassion towards the sick and poor. She taught at
an all girls high school. Then she got a call from Christ saying to leave her convent and
devote her life to the sick and poor of Calcutta. Then Mother Teresa created her Missions
of Charity organization. She cared for those who were the most vulnerable in society.
Mother Teresa entered a war zone to execute 37 people. She donated a lot of money to
India and got awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She operated mare than 517 missions in
more that 100 countries.

Miracle Puts Mother Teresa On A Saintly Path.

www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/21/religion.catholicism. In this quote, Bates had
used a quote from Mother Teresa, that truly meant something to us. To us, this showed
that she never truly expected anything from them. She helped because the way they
respected her for what she does, and the way they don't complain about anything in their
life, they are just happy they have a life. Used as secondary source.

Mother Teresa Roman Catholic Nun. www.britannica.com/biography/Mother-Teresa. This

article written on Mother Teresa was about. Mother Teresa displayed cheerfulness and a
deep commitment to God in her daily work, her letters (which were collected and
published in 2007) indicate that she did not feel Gods presence in her soul during the last
50 years of her life. The letters reveal the suffering she endured and her feeling
that Jesus had abandoned her at the start of her mission. Continuing to experience a
spiritual darkness, she came to believe that she was sharing in Christs Passion,
particularly the moment in which Christ asks, My God, my God, why have you forsaken
me? Despite this hardship, Mother Teresa integrated the feeling of absence into her
daily religious life and remained committed to her faith and her work for Christ.
talks about never giving up for her love and devotion to God and she belonged to him.

The Wikipedia Online. "Mother Teresa." Wikipedia Encyclopedia, WIkipedia.com,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother Teresa. Accessed 30 Oct. 2106. -Mother Teresa was a
controversial figure both during her life and after her death, Teresa was widely admired
by many for her charitable works. She was both praised and criticized for her

views against abortion. She was criticized for the poor conditions in the houses for the
dying she ran. Her authorized biography was written by Indian civil servant Navin
Chawla and published in 1992, and there are other books and films about her.

Primary
Missionaries of Charity. "Missionaries of Charity Center." Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center
Official Website, Misssionaries of Charity foundation,
www.motherteresa.org/layout.html. Accessed 18 Nov. 2016. This website is her
organizations official web page. It talks about Mother Teresa and her founded Missions
of Charity organization. Mother Teresa's Charity Organization- The Society of
Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and
Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a
number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work
in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for
refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they
take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers.

Pilgrims trek to Rome for Mother Teresa's canonization. Digital file. This picture is a picture of
Pope Francis and Mother Teresa. In this picture Mother Teresa is getting canonized as a
saint because of the help and time and effort she dedicated to the sick and poor all over
the world. And how she took a stand in her community and everyone else's community
because of what she thought God was calling her to do.

Teresa, Mother. Mother Teresa No Greater Love. During her lifelong service to the poorest of
the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her
extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others
nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the
world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. Quote
from the book: Sometimes I feel so weak, but I think that's why God uses me.

Mother Teresas Love Speech. "Love starts in our family, in our own home. Family that prays
together stays together, stays together. If you stay together you will love one another. As
God loves each on of you." These are Mother Teresa's words in her speech. She is talking
about how when you love one another you grow as an individual, and a family. You
should love one another like God loves you.

Videoconference interview. By Nodlaig McCarthy. 1974. - She didn't give up because she
belonged to Christ.
- Missionaries of Charities.
- Putting our love for Christ into action in changing to work for the poor.
Mother Teresa talks about her organization to help the sick and poor. She also talks about
putting our love to others and Jesus Christ and then putting our love into action. Ans she
talks about never giving up for her love and devotion to God and she belonged to him.