Description
When Mother Teresa first learnt that yet another book was being written about her, she very characteristically thought for a while, then requested that it be about her people and her work, and not about, personalities. Mother's people are the poorest of the poor, be they in India, where her work began, or in the affluent countries of the world to where it has spread. Her work, shared by a growing number of Missionaries of Charity, is to give help and love where it is needed. The Brothers and Sisters of the Order are today working in the ghettos of New York, the slums of London, in Australia, South America and in the shadow of the Vatican at the Pope's personal request. Mother Teresa maintains that the suffering of the poor in affluent countries is more a searing loneliness and rejection. In India, strong bonds of family, religion and tradition lessen the rigours of poverty, but it is still there, a product of history, geography and exploding population.
ISBN:0006253334
