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International Day of Charity – 5 September

4 septembre 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: Charity, Children, fighting diseases, Mother Teresa, UN

international-day-of-charity-1-e1450098273597-808x380-2Every year, charities all over the world help to save and improve people’s lives, fighting disease, protecting children, and giving hope to many thousands of people. To honour the important work that these many charities do, in 2012 the United Nations decided to nominate an annual International Day of Charity as an official day of recognition and celebration.

The reason the date was chosen is because it is the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. This choice commemorates the tireless work that Mother Teresa did by devoting her whole life to charity work. To celebrate this special day every year, the work of different charities all over the word is publicised and celebrated, and people are encouraged to donate money and time, to carry out charitable works, and also to educate people and raise awareness about the many charitable issues worldwide. Education and giving are the essence of this special day.

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Mother Teresa to be canonized on September 4

2 septembre 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: canonisation, Mother Teresa, Pope Francis, St. John Paul ll, Vatican, Year of Mercy

Pope Francis will declare Blessed Teresa of Kolkata a saint at the Vatican September 4. Mother Teresa was widely known as a living saint as she ministered to the sick and the dying in some of theA poster of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata and Missionaries of Charity are seen in Kolkata, India, in this Sept. 5, 2007, file photo. Pope Francis will declare her a saint at the Vatican Sept. 4, the conclusion of the Year of Mercy jubilee for those engaged in works of mercy. (CNS photo/Jayanta Shaw, Reuters) See POPE-SAINTS-DATES March 15, 2016.poorest neighborhoods in the world. Although some people criticized her for not also challenging the injustices that kept so many people so poor and abandoned, her simple service touched the hearts of millions of people of all faiths.

Born to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in what is now part of Macedonia, she went to India in 1929 as a Sister of Loreto and became an Indian citizen in 1947. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950.
Shortly after she died in 1997, St. John Paul II waived the usual five-year waiting period and allowed the opening of the process to declare her sainthood. She was beatified in 2003.

After her beatification, Missionary of Charity Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, the postulator of her sainthood cause, published a book of her letters, « Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. » The letters illustrated how, for decades, she experienced what is described as a « dark night of the soul » in Christian spirituality; she felt that God had abandoned her. While the letters shocked some people, others saw them as proof of her steadfast faith in God, which was not based on feelings or signs that he was with her.

The date chosen for her canonization is the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death and the date previously established at the Vatican for the conclusion of the Year of Mercy pilgrimage of people like her who are engaged in works of mercy.

Source: Text & Image: Catholic News Service By Cindy Wooden; CNS photo/Jayanta Shaw, Reuters: A poster of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata and Missionaries of Charity are seen in Kolkata, India.