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<div class="bradcums"><a href="../miracle-that-was-mother-teresa.asp">Articles</a> » "Mother Teresa Remembered" published on September 17, 2012</div>
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<h3>Mother Teresa Remembered</h3>
<div class="aboutTxt">"Mother Teresa Remembered" published on September 17, 2012</div>
<p><b>Mother Teresa Remembered</b></p>
<p>"What was the most painful incident of your life" <a href="/">Navin Chawla</a>, IAS, ex-Chief
Election Commissioner of India and the <a href="../association.asp">official biographer of Mother Teresa</a> had
once asked the Saint of the Gutters. And the Mother had recounted how, while
walking on the streets of a city shed did not wish to name, she had heard a
growing human voice from behind a garbage dump. The voice was that of a
dying lady whom the Mother, with the help of the accompanying sister had taken
to her local home. After cleaning the wretched lady and administering medical
aid, the Mother had asked the lady as to who had left her alone in the dumps to
die?</p>
<p> The lady had told the astounded Mother that it was her own son who had thrown
her to the garbage bin, having forced her to sign her last will and testament.
The Mother told the lady that the time was near to meet her maker and that she
should forgive her son so that she may go in peace at which the lady, a mother
herself, expressed her inability to cleanse her soul of the hatred she he harbored
against her son.</p>
<p> Gently tending the dying lady with saintly compassion, the Mother touched and
transformed her and as she prayed for her, the lady’s life flickered out but before
that she looked at the Mother and told her that she had forgiven her son and a
smile spread across her face. In death she was blessed.</p>
<p> This was one of the various anecdotes from the life and times of <a href="/">Mother Teresa</a>
that Navin Chawla shared with the St. Xavier’s College auditorium packed with
nuns and sisters from the Missionaries of Charity, Rev. Fathers, professors,
alumni members and students of the college.</p>
<p> Initiated by Rev. Fr. Dr. J. Felix Raj, SJ, the Principal of the College and a close
associate of the Mother, the programme was graced by HG. Rt. Rev. Thomas
D’Souza, the Archbishop of Calcutta and the Superior General of the
Missionaries of Charities</p>
<p> Snehasish Sur,the immediate Past Secretary of the SXCCAA conducted the
proceedings while Firdausul Hasan, Hon. Secretary gave the vote of thanks.</p>
<p><a href="../pdfs/ADDRESS BY SHRI NAVIN CHAWLA ON _MOTHER TERESA_ ON 17.09.2012 AT ST. XAVIER 'S COLLEGE, KOLKATA.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here to download</a></p>
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