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Sept. 5, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTA (b Macedonia 1910, d India 1997) - Founder, Missionaries of Charity, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
The world recently marked what would have been her 100th birthday. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born to Albanian parents in Skopje, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. She joined the Loreto Sisters of Dublin as a teenager, and at age 18, she was sent to the Loreto novitiate in Darjeeling, India, where she chose the name Teresa and taught at a high-school for upper-class children. Surrounded by the overwhelming poverty of many Indians, she says she heard an inner call one day to 'follow Christ into the slums and serve him among the poorest of the poor'. She left the Loreto community, took a nursing course for several months, and got permission to start a new religious community. She chose to work in Calcutta (Kolkata) where she opened a school for poor children in a slum area, while visiting her neighbors to know their needs. Before long, volunteers joined her work, some of them former students, and became the core of her religious community founded in 1950. They carried out their work with contributions in food, clothing, supplies, and use of buildings. In 1952, the city gave her a hostel which became a home for the dying destitute. As her order expanded, services were extended to orphans, abandoned children, alcoholics, and street people. And for the next four decades, she took her mission worldwide. soliciting material support for the work of her sisters and inviting the world to see Jesus in the poorest of the poor. Her order has become global, a she herself was considered a living saint and was one of the most famous persons on the globe by the time she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died of natural causes on Sept. 5, 1997. John Paul II, who met her several times, waived protocol and started the cause for her beatification immediately, and beatified her in October 19, 2003. She is buried in the Mother Teresa Center in Calcutta.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/nab/readings/090510.shtml
OR today.
A Page 1 story on the Holy Father's pastoral trip today to Carpineto Romano, and in the inside pages, an essay about the visit by the Bishop of Anagni-Alastri, and a tribute to Leo XIII from the Bishop of Perugia, the city Leo XII served as bishop for some time before he became an Apostolic Nuncio and then Pope. There is also a story recalling the 10th anniversary today of the beatification of John XXIII. Other Page 1 items: A report on Darfur's continuing civilian toll from factional wars; a puff piece on the US-sponsored resumption of Israeli-Palestinian direct talks; China divests itself of more US bond holdings; and a feature on the reopening later this month of the Vatican Library and Archives after three years of renovation.
THE POPE'S DAY
[ PASTORAL VISIT OF THE HOLY FATHER
BENEDICT XVI TO CARPINETO ROMANO
on the bicentenary of the birth of
POPE LEO XIII
Sunday, September 5, 2010
P R O G R A M
08:30 The Pope leaves by helicopter from the Pontifical Villas in Castel Gandolfo
08:45 The helicopter lands at the Galeotti sports field in Carpineto.
The Holy Father will be welcomed by
- Mons. Lorenzo Loppa, Bishop of Anagni-Alatri
- A representative of the Italian government
- Mme. Renato Polverini, President of Lazio Region
- Dr. Giuseppe Pecoraro, Prefect of Rome Province
- H.E. Antonio Zanardi Landi, Italian ambassador to the Holy See
- Mons. Giuseppe Bertello, Apostolic Nuncio to Italy
- Quirino Briganti, Mayor of Carpineto
- Hon. Nicola Zingaetti, President of Rome Province
- Fr. Giuseppe Ghirelli, parish priest of Carpineto
The Holy Father will transfer to the Popemobile to proceed to Largo dei Monte Lepini
09:15 At Largo dei Monte Lepini, the Holy Father will be formally welcomed by Mayor Briganti and Mons. Loppa.
There will be an exchange of gifts.
09:30 CELEBRATION OF HOLY MASS
- Homily
11:00 After Mass, the Holy Father will greet a delegation representing the civilian and religious community.
11:30 The Pope departs Carpineto by helicopter from the Galeotti sports field.
11:45 He arrives back in Castel Gandolfo.
CASTEL GANDOLFO
12:00 Angelus
The poster also pictures Pope Paul VI and John Paul II, who visited Carpineto in 1966 and 1991, respectively.
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