Wednesday, December 5, 2007

The Sixth Post of Mother Teresa

  • A young priest who was a Missionary Brother of Charity had just entered the Order. However, he was arrested by the police with other hoodlums unreasonably.
  • A Brother branch of the Missonary of Charity was set up in 1963 and the General Servant of this branch was Brother Andrew.
  • The uniform for the Brothers were not easy to recognize.
  • Archbishop Albert Vincent replaced Archbishop Perier. Archbishop Albert Vincent was so different that he seldom opposed Mother Teresa's idea and once he agreed in five minutes.
  • As Roman Catholic Church didnt permitt a woman to be head of a religous congregation of men, Mother Teresa appointed Ian Travers-Ball, later named Brother Andrew, to be the leader.
  • Mother Teresa bought a house for the brothers.
  • Brothers began their work at the Howrah railway station, which was in Shishu Bhawan. There were mostly young teen orphans or some of them ran away from home and they were suffering in diseases.
  • The first special home for handicapped boys was called Nabo Jeevan.
  • Brother Andrew opened the first overseas house in Vietnam.
  • A Brother was kidnapped for then released after three months. However, the Archbishop of El Salvadoe was shot a few months later.
  • They started a soup kitchen in Paris.
  • There were many co-workers who came tu help serving the poor.
  • Anne Blaikie formed the first Co-worker group in Calcutta. They collected clothes for the poor children in Calcutta as a Christmas present.
  • More and more small co-worker group were formed from countries to countries.
  • Also the sick, handicapped, old and disable people joined the active work.
  • Jacqueline de Decker was a great helper of Mother Teresa.
  • Mother Teresa was getting slow because of illness.
  • Jacqueline relied on telephone to communicate with Mother Teresa.

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