Sikuphi isidumbu sikaMama uTeresa waseCalcutta esibizwa ngokuthi “uNgcwele wabampofu”?

Umama Teresa waseCalcutta, owaziwa ngokuthi “uSanta ompofu” ungomunye wabantu abathandwa nabahlonishwa kakhulu emhlabeni wangaleso sikhathi. Ukuzikhandla kwakhe ekunakekeleni abaswele nabagulayo kuye kwenza igama lakhe lahlobana nokuzidela nothando.

UMama Teresa wazalwa 26 Agasti 1910 eSkopje, eMacedonia. Eseyinsizwa, wezwa a ucingo lwangaphakathi futhi wanquma ukunikezela ukuphila kwakhe ekunakekeleni ababuthaka kakhulu nabancishiwe. Wathatha izifungo zakhe zenkolo 1931 futhi wathatha igama likaTeresa ngokuhlonishwa U-Saint Teresa wengane uJesu.

Ngo 1946, UMama Teresa wasungula ibandla le Izithunywa zevangeli ze-Charity eCalcutta, eNdiya. Inhloso yawo bekuwukuhlinzeka ngosizo lwezempilo nokweseka abancishwe amathuba, okuhlanganisa abanochoko, izintandane, abangenamakhaya nabafayo. Umgomo wayo ubusekelwe kumagugu anjengobubele, ukusiza kanyeAmore engenamibandela.

Emashumini eminyaka edlule, uMama Teresa usabalalise umsebenzi wakhe emhlabeni wonke, evula amakhaya nezikhungo zokunakekela abampofu. Naphezu kobunzima bezezimali nokugxekwa, uqhubekile nokwenza umsebenzi wakhe ngokuzinikela nangokuzithoba, wenza umehluko ezimpilweni zabantu abaningi.

Ukufa kukaMama Teresa

Umama uTeresa uyafa Okthoba 5, 1997, eneminyaka engu-87, ngemva kokuhlaselwa yinhliziyo izikhathi eziningana, ezungezwe uthando lwamaSisters. Iphuma emagcekeni endlu yebandla lebandla Izithunywa zevangeli ze-Charity, ku-54/a Lower Circular Road, eCalcutta. Khona lapho ithuna lakhe likhona namuhla.

Nsuku zonke ethuneni lakhe, enziwe kwelinye UCappella, kuyagujwa ubuningi lapho wonke umuntu angabamba iqhaza kukho, abasha, abacebile, abampofu, abanempilo kanye nabagulayo. Ithuna likaMama Teresa seliyindawo ebalulekile ukuhamba ngayinye ethembekile kanye nezivakashi ezivela kuwo wonke umhlaba. Njalo ngonyaka, izinkulungwane zabantu zivakashela i-cathedral ukuze zikhumbule umsebenzi nefa lalo wesifazane omangalisayo.