Devotion to Mother Teresa of Calcutta to ask for a grace
SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA
Skopje, Macedonia, August 26, 1910 - Calcutta, India, September 5, 1997
Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, born in today's Macedonia from an Albanian family, at the age of 18 fulfilled her desire to become a missionary nun and entered the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto. Leaving for Ireland in 1928, a year later she arrived in India. In 1931 he made his first vows, taking the new name of Sister Maria Teresa del Bambin Gesù (chosen for his devotion to the saint of Lisieux), and for about twenty years he taught history and geography to the students of the college of Entally, in the eastern area of Calcutta. On September 10, 1946, while on the train to Darjeeling for spiritual exercises, he felt the "second call": God wanted him to found a new congregation. On August 16, 1948 he then left the college to share the life of the poorest of the poor. His name has become synonymous with a sincere and disinterested charity, lived directly and taught to all. From the first group of young people who followed her, the congregation of the Missionaries of Charity arose, then expanded almost all over the world. She died in Calcutta on 5 September 1997. She was beatified by Saint John Paul II on 19 October 2003 and finally canonized by Pope Francis on Sunday 4 September 2016.
PRAYER TO MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
Mother Teresa of the last!
Your fast pace has always gone
towards the weakest and most abandoned
to silently challenge those who are
full of power and selfishness:
the water of the last supper
has passed into your tireless hands
courageously pointing out to everyone
the path of true greatness.
Mother Teresa of Jesus!
you heard the cry of Jesus
in the cry of the hungry of the world
and you healed the body of christ
in the wounded body of lepers.
Mother Teresa, pray for us to become
humble and pure in heart like Mary
to welcome in our heart
the love that makes you happy.
Amen!
NOVENA TO MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
PRAYER
(to be repeated every day of the novena)
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta,
you have allowed the trimmed love of Jesus on the Cross
to become a living flame within you,
so as to be for all light of His Love.
Get from the heart of Jesus (expose the grace for which we pray ..)
Teach me to let Jesus penetrate me
and take possession of my whole being, so completely,
that my life is also an irradiation of His light
and His love for others.
Amen
Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Because of our joy, pray for me.
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.
"Jesus is my All in All"
First Day
Know the Living Jesus
Thought for the Day:…..
“Do not seek Jesus in distant lands; it's not there. It is close to you: it is within you. "
Ask for the grace to be convinced of Jesus' unconditional and personal love for you.
Recite the prayer to Blessed Mother Teresa
Second day
Jesus loves you
Thought for the Day:….
"Don't be afraid - you are precious to Jesus. He loves you."
Ask for the grace to be convinced of Jesus' unconditional and personal love for you.
Recite the prayer to Blessed Mother Teresa
Third day
Hear Jesus say to you: "I am thirsty"
Thought for the Day:……
"Do you realize ?! God is thirsty that you and I offer ourselves to quench His thirst ”.
Ask for the grace to understand Jesus' cry: "I am thirsty".
Recite the prayer to Blessed Mother Teresa
Fourth day
Our Lady will help you
Thought for the Day:……
“How long we have to stay close to Maria
who understood what depth of Divine Love was revealed when,
at the foot of the cross, hear Jesus' cry: "I am thirsty".
Ask for the grace to learn from Mary to quench the thirst of Jesus as she did.
Recite the prayer to Blessed Mother Teresa
Fifth day
Trust Jesus blindly
Thought of the day: ……
“Trust in God can get anything.
It is our emptiness and our smallness that God needs, and not our fullness. "
Ask for the grace to have unshakable trust in the power and love of God for you and everyone.
Recite the prayer to Blessed Mother Teresa
Sixth day
Authentic love is abandonment
Thought for the Day:…….
"Let God use you without consulting you."
Ask for the grace to abandon your whole life in God.
Recite the prayer to Blessed Mother Teresa
Seventh day
God loves those who give with Joy
Thought for the Day:……
“Joy is a sign of union with God, of the presence of God.
Joy is love, the natural result of a heart inflamed with love ".
Ask for the grace to keep the joy of loving and to share this joy with everyone you meet
Recite the prayer to Blessed Mother Teresa
Eighth day
Jesus made himself the Bread of Life and the Hungry
Thought for the Day:…..
"Do you believe that He, Jesus, is in the guise of the Bread, and that He, Jesus, is in the hungry,
in the naked, in the sick, in the one who is not loved, in the homeless, in the defenseless and in the desperate ”.
Ask for the grace to see Jesus in the Bread of Life and to serve Him in the disfigured face of the poor.
Recite the prayer to Blessed Mother Teresa
Ninth day
Holiness is Jesus who lives and acts in me
Thought for the Day:……
"Mutual charity is the safest way to a great holiness"
Ask for the grace to become a saint.
Recite the prayer to Blessed Mother Teresa