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Mother Teresa of Calcutta.NURSE AND TEACHER
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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NURSE AND TEACHER
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Many come from far away, sometimes walking for three hours. What condition are they in? Full of sores on their ears and feet. On their backs they have grooves and marks, due to the number of ulcers. Many have stayed at home because they could not come, too weak due to tropical fevers
She was very happy with her job as a nurse, but the Superior changed her position, assigning her to work in a very well-known and distinguished school that the Congregation had in Calcutta, called St. Mary, for well-to-do and upper-class girls. Some days off, she took the opportunity to visit and help her poor people, whom she always had in her heart as a mother.
In 1934 she wrote: In addition to school, I must heal many sick people and help ten sisters in their studies.
In 1935 the Superior entrusted the school of Saint Teresa to her and about it she wrote: I have taken charge of the school of Saint Teresa, which is located in Calcutta… When these little boys of mine saw me for the first time, they looked at each other, wondering if I was an evil spirit or a goddess. For them there is no middle ground. Whoever is good to them, they worship him as a divinity, while they fear whoever is ill-intentioned, as if he were a demon, and they limit themselves to respecting him.
I immediately rolled up my sleeves, took out everything that was in the classroom, took water and a sponge and started cleaning the floor. This amazed them greatly. They stared at me since they had never seen a teacher start lessons with such work; above all, because in India cleaning is done by the lower castes. Seeing me happy and smiling, the girls began to help me, while the boys brought more water. After two hours, that dirty room was transformed, at least in part, into a school classroom, where everything was clean. It was a long room that formerly served as a chapel, and today it was divided into five classes
When I arrived there were 52 children, while now there are more than three hundred.
Every Sunday I visit the poor in the slums of Calcutta. I can’t help them, because I have nothing, but I’m going to make them happy.
One poor woman never even once lamented her misery. I was sad and, at the same time, happy, seeing that they were happy with my visit. Another told me: Oh, Ma, she’s coming again! Your smile has brought the sun to this house! On the way back, I thought: Oh God, how easily I make them happy
Sister Teresa almost always went on foot to the Santa Teresa school and so she could greet the people she met along the way on the street with a smile. People began to really love her and invited her to her poor hut to make them happy with her visit. How much she would suffer for the love of Jesus on her long walks through the marginalized neighborhoods among the dust and dirt, with fatigue, hunger and thirst; without having a fan even in the hottest summer, living in small rooms, sleeping on hard mattresses!
In a letter she related: Two of my students invited me to visit her house, where her father was very ill. They don’t have a mother, because he died. The father is already old and he has three daughters. The oldest doesn’t go to school, because she has to take care of her father. When I reached the door of the shack, the old man, with all the strength he had, tried to stand up and invited me to come in and come closer. In the hut, the air was very stuffy, I almost fainted, I was about to fall to the ground, but the old man had many things to tell me… Oh, Ma, he told me, I’m dying. You are my mother! You are the mother of my daughters! You must guard and care for them, be her mother, when I am no longer here! I promised all this to the old man. I told him that I would take care of them as if I were his real mother. Hearing my words, the old man put on a smiling face and, out of great happiness, he began to bless me. How happy I was when I saw and understood that Jesus had called me here to make happy the lives of the most helpless people in the world.
In 1942 she made a private vow to manifest her great love for Jesus. She wrote: I made a vow to God, obligating myself under penalty of mortal sin to give God everything he asked of me and to deny him nothing. She did it, as she later clarified, because she wanted to give God something very beautiful.
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