Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
September 5th

When a dying person came or was brought to Mother Teresa and her sisters, they were met with nothing but love. They were washed and given clean clothes, medicine, and—most important—someone who could hold their hand, listen, stroke their foreheads, and comfort them with love in their last days.

In 1979, at the age of 69, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. She “received the news with characteristic lack of fuss,” Time magazine reported at the time. “Personally, I am unworthy,” she said. In accepting the Prize, she expressed her unequivocal opposition to abortion. Mother Teresa refused to attend the traditional Nobel banquet in her honor, asking that the $7,000 cost of the dinner instead

instead be donated to the poor of India.  Nobel officials offered to donate $7,000 and also hold a banquet; Mother Teresa held fast, asking that whatever money was available to honor her be donated to the poor.  The people of Norway responded to her selflessness by raising an additional $52,000 to support her work.
 

A Great Model to Role Model to follow.