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Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa: A Saint for the Poorest of the Poor Saint Teresa of Calcutta, known to the world as Mother Teresa, was born in 1910 in Albania as Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu. In 1929, she entered the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly known as the Loreto Sisters, and took the name Teresa. She was […]

THURSDAY OF THE TWENTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

Introduction       The first reading reflects the primitive conditions and the moral underdevelopment of the period of the Judges. Jephthah, a man of good will and a dedicated servant of Yahweh, lacks the moral discernment to distinguish between the binding force of an imprudent vow and respect for the human person.       All are invited

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