The sisters at Mother House were all smiles when the news of Mother Teresa’s elevation to sainthood reached the city on Tuesday.
The sisters at Mother House were all smiles when the news of Mother Teresa’s elevation to sainthood reached the city on Tuesday. Pope Francis on Tuesday announced that Mother Teresa, who had dedicated her life to the service of the poor and downtrodden, would be canonised a saint on September 4, a day before her 19th death anniversary. “Pope Francis today approved Mother Teresa’s elevation to sainthood and set September 4 as the date for her canonisation,” read a message from the Vatican to the Mother’s House. As soon as the news broke out, a holy mass was performed at Mother House, headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity.
“This is great news for all of us and we are very happy about it. She spent all her life helping the downtrodden and physically-challenged people without taking a single holiday. If she was alive then she would have accepted it for the sake of the poor. The sisters at Mother House cannot stop smiling and they performed a mass,” a spokesperson of the Missionaries of Charity and a close confidant of Mother for many years, Sunita Kumar, told this newspaper.
