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Celebrations begin for centennial of Blessed Mother Teresa's birth
27-08-2009
CALCUTTA, India (CNS) -- The Missionaries of Charity have launched a year of programs celebrating the 2010 centennial of the birth of Blessed Mother Teresa, the religious order's founder who dedicated her life to serving some of India's poorest people.
"Mother Teresa's birth centenary begins today," said retired Archbishop Henry D'Souza of Calcutta Aug. 26 during a Mass marking what would have been the 99th birthday of the devoted caretaker at the congregation's motherhouse chapel, according to the Asian church news agency UCA News.
Sister Mary Prema, the congregation's superior general, said the celebrations would conclude Aug. 26, 2010.
During the centennial year, "the best gift we can all prepare for Mother's 100th birthday is our sincere endeavor to be channels of God's love and peace to the poor," she told a gathering at the motherhouse.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Aug. 26, 1910, into an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in present-day Macedonia. She came to Calcutta as a member of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto nuns) in 1929 and founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. She died in 1997 and was beatified in 2003.
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