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Mother Teresa of Calcutta speaking publicly in December 1979, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.
This video is posted for educational purposes.
Here is the beginning remarks of the Mother Teresa Nobel Prize Speech:
Let us all together thank God for this beautiful occasion where we can all together proclaim the joy of spreading peace, the joy of loving one another and the joy acknowledging that the poorest of the poor are our brothers and sisters.
As we have gathered here to thank God for this gift of peace, I have given you all the prayer for peace that St Francis of Assisi prayed many years ago, and I wonder he must have felt the need what we feel today to pray for. I think you have all got that paper? We’ll say it together.
Lord, make me a channel of your peace, that where there is hatred, I may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; that where there is discord, I may bring harmony; that where there is error, I may bring truth; that where there is doubt, I may bring faith; that where there is despair, I may bring hope; that where there are shadows, I may bring light; that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted; to understand, than to be understood; to love, than to be loved. For it is by forgetting self, that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying, that one awakens to eternal life. Amen.
God loved the world so much that he gave his son and he gave him to a virgin, the blessed virgin Mary, and she, the moment he came in her life, went in haste to give him to others. And what did she do then? She did the work of the handmaid, just so. Just spread that joy of loving to service. And Jesus Christ loved you and loved me and he gave his life for us, and as if that was not enough for him, he kept on saying: Love as I have loved you, as I love you now, and how do we have to love, to love in the giving. For he gave his life for us. And he keeps on giving, and he keeps on giving right here everywhere in our own lives and in the lives of others.
It was not enough for him to die for us, he wanted that we loved one another, that we see him in each other, that’s why he said: Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.
And to make sure that we understand what he means, he said that at the hour of death we are going to be judged on what we have been to the poor, to the hungry, naked, the homeless, and he makes himself that hungry one, that naked one, that homeless one, not only hungry for bread, but hungry for love, not only naked for a piece of cloth, but naked of that human dignity, not only homeless for a room to live, but homeless for that being forgotten, been unloved, uncared, being nobody to nobody, having forgotten what is human love, what is human touch, what is to be loved by somebody, and he says: Whatever you did to the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.
It is so beautiful for us to become holy to this love, for holiness is not a luxury of the few, it is a simple duty for each one of us, and through this love we can become holy. To this love for one another and today when I have received this reward, I personally am most unworthy, and I having avowed poverty to be able to understand the poor, I choose the poverty of our people. But I am grateful and I am very happy to receive it in the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the leprous, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared, thrown away of the society, people who have become a burden to the society, and are ashamed by everybody.
In their name I accept the award...
Full-text of Mother Teresa's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance speech may be read at: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/pea...
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ABOUT: Mother Teresa of Calcutta (born 1910 as Agnes Gonxa Bojaxhiu in an Albanian family; died 1977 in Calcutta), a missionary honored for her humanitarian work.
At age of 18 she joined the Sisters of Loreto. She chose to be named after the French Discalced Carmelite, Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus. From 1928, she worked as a missionary in Calcutta. In 1948, at the pope’s consent, she left the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (commonly known as the Sisters of Loreto), accepted Indian citizenship and established a new sisterhood, the Missionaries of Charity, which set off on a mission to help the poor, the hungry and lepers, first in India, and then also in Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States.
She claimed she had just served God, and the love & care she showed towards abandoned people gave her great joy and fulfilment. She believed, apart from poverty & hunger, the biggest problems of the world are loneliness & neglect of other people.
She was beatified in 2003.
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3 июн 2022
