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...Hindu goddess in Calcutta. But nearby, many discovered another source of solace: a small woman, wrinkled and bent, a willing companion to the dying. She tenderly cared for the abandoned and the sick, washing their wounds, soothing their sores, preparing them for death. "They must feel wanted, loved," Mother Teresa said. "They are Jesus...
Only physically did Mother Teresa's heart fail her, subjecting her to years of illness that finally led to her death last week at age 87. She had always been adamant about who owned her heart. "People think we are social workers," she once told one of her spiritual advisers, Father Edward Le Joly. "We are not. We serve Jesus. I serve Jesus 24 hours...
...those who believed and perhaps even for those who merely admired her, Mother Teresa was a living saint, drawing both rich and poor to her side and to the message of God. She could, wrote Malcolm Muggeridge in his 1971 book Something Beautiful for God, "hear in the cry of every abandoned child the cry of the Bethlehem child; recognize in every leper's stumps the hands which once touched sightless eyes and made them...
This week seemed like a return to news as usual, once we had laid the Princess to rest and bid good-bye to Mother Teresa. But that was just appearances. Under the surface, a lot of quiet little revolutions kept the world distinctly topsy-turvy. True, there was no single earth-shattering plot twist, but we were left scratching our heads as a number of familiar characters started playing against type. Prince Charles turned out to be a good guy after all, and AOL's Steve Case made nice with CompuServe employees. The world's largest Communist country came...
...Teresa] feeds a lot of people and fires some really accurate balls," said junior Jocelyn Ludwick, who is familiar with both Petruccellis' style of play...