We all have courage: We just need to find it
You don’t need to be the Cowardly Lion to be in search of courage. I believe everyone has courage already, you just need to find it within you. To some people courage is just being pushed to do something out of your comfort zone. This can make any situation seem hard. To other people, courage may be needed just to get through a full day of school. Courage might be surviving a day on the battlefield. To me, courage is doing something in the world that you truly believe in, even when everyone else tells you that you will never be able to do it. Once you get an idea in you mind, you do whatever you have to do until you get done. Like the Cowardly Lion, he already had courage within him, he just had to find it. Everyone has courage in their own way, they just have to prove to the world that they can do what they believe in.
Hearing that your friend has cancer is something no one wants to hear. I remember being at a friend’s party at the beginning of the summer in between seventh and eighth grade. My mom came to pick me up. She had heard that one of our friends was in the hospital, and they didn’t know what was going on. We later found out that she had been diagnosed with cancer. For the next six months, she had to find her inner courage to fight the cancer. While in treatment, three friends and I got together to make her a gift bag and a friendship scrapbook. For the first semester of our eighth grade year she had to be tutored at home. It was too much of a risk for her to be at school and to catch a virus. Now being cancer free for a year and a half she has gotten a nail polish company to donate bottles of nail polish to be able to go the children hospital to paint girl’s nails. She knows little things like that to make a little girl with cancer feel pretty is what is going to make these girls happy. Her courage from fighting the cancer now helps her do what she knows will make other little girls with cancer happy.
Ever since I was little, I have looked up to Mother Teresa for many different reasons. One reason is because I believe that she is a very courageous women. Many people might not know all that much about her. Some might just know that she was Catholic nun and worked in India. To me she has done so much more.
Born Agnes Bojaxhio on August 26, 1910. She grew up in a very Catholic life style and decided at the age of 18 to become a nun, joining the Loreto Sisters based in Ireland (Warren). Taking the name Teresa after Saint Teresa of Avila (Duchane). That is the first courageous step, deciding to become a nun. She was sent to be a teacher at the Loreto Entally school in Calcutta. She stayed a teacher for 19 years. She took her final vows on May 24, 1927 and became Mother Teresa. On her way to a retreat in Darjeeling, India, on September 10, 1946, she believed she had “the call within the call”(Kelly). The first call was the call to the vocation and then the second call was to start her own order (Kelly). She wanted to work with the poorest of poor, sickest of sick, hungriest of the hungry, in the slums of Calcutta. When she returned from her retreat and ask for approval, Archbishop Perier denied her to start a new order (Duchane). He said there were already many Catholic orders working with the poor in India (Dunchane). He advised her to wait a year before sending her request to the Vatican. “She repeatedly told Father Van Exem that Jesus wanted the foundation right away and encouraged him to return to Archbishop Perier repeatly to change his mind.” The Archbishop stood firm on his decision(Dunchane). In 1948, the Archbishop decided that she could apply to start the new order(Dunchane). She was then sent to Patna to learn some basic medical skills for her new work (Dunchane). On October 1, 1950, the order of Missionaries of Charity was officially established. She had courage to do get the order approved and opened. Her courage continued when she opened the first Home for the Dying in 1952(Warren). On September 23, 1955, the Children’s home(Dunchane) was opened. The order then began to work with lepers in 1957(Warren). They established their first mission outside of India in 1965 in Venezuela(Warren). She received the prestigious Padma Shri award, India’s second highest honor in 1962 (Dunchane). In 1976, she was awarded the first Pope John XXIII Peace prize by the Vatican (Dunchane). Mother Teresa was awarded her highest recognition with being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 (Dunchane). She was then Awarded the Queen Elizabeth insignia of the Honorary Order of Merit in 1983 (Dunchane). In 1985, the order established their first of many AIDS ministries (Warren). In March 1997, she stepped down as head of Missionaries of Charity because of her increasingly poor health. She died on September 5, 1997. Her state funeral took place on September 13. Mother Teresa’s Beatification was held October 2003, one last step before canonization (Warren). Her mission has continued through the 4,500 Missionaries of Charity in 133 countries today (Kelley).
In the eyes of many Catholics around the world, Mother Teresa is a modern saint for all she has done. Her courage came from Christ within. The work she did was for all the people of Christ. Even if people she was helping weren’t Catholic that didn’t matter, they were still God’s children. Mother Teresa knew her purpose on earth was to help out all God’s children. No matter what you need courage for, I believe everyone has it within them. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless”- Mother Teresa (Duchane).
Duchane, Sangeet. “The Little book of Mother Teresa.” New York City, New York: Fall River Press, 2004
Kelly, Matthew. “Rediscover Catholicism.” Cincinnati, Ohio: Beacon Publishing, 2010
Warren, Rick. Time: “Mother Teresa at 100: The Life and Works of a Modern Saint.” New York City, New York: Time Magazine, 2010
Hearing that your friend has cancer is something no one wants to hear. I remember being at a friend’s party at the beginning of the summer in between seventh and eighth grade. My mom came to pick me up. She had heard that one of our friends was in the hospital, and they didn’t know what was going on. We later found out that she had been diagnosed with cancer. For the next six months, she had to find her inner courage to fight the cancer. While in treatment, three friends and I got together to make her a gift bag and a friendship scrapbook. For the first semester of our eighth grade year she had to be tutored at home. It was too much of a risk for her to be at school and to catch a virus. Now being cancer free for a year and a half she has gotten a nail polish company to donate bottles of nail polish to be able to go the children hospital to paint girl’s nails. She knows little things like that to make a little girl with cancer feel pretty is what is going to make these girls happy. Her courage from fighting the cancer now helps her do what she knows will make other little girls with cancer happy.
Ever since I was little, I have looked up to Mother Teresa for many different reasons. One reason is because I believe that she is a very courageous women. Many people might not know all that much about her. Some might just know that she was Catholic nun and worked in India. To me she has done so much more.
Born Agnes Bojaxhio on August 26, 1910. She grew up in a very Catholic life style and decided at the age of 18 to become a nun, joining the Loreto Sisters based in Ireland (Warren). Taking the name Teresa after Saint Teresa of Avila (Duchane). That is the first courageous step, deciding to become a nun. She was sent to be a teacher at the Loreto Entally school in Calcutta. She stayed a teacher for 19 years. She took her final vows on May 24, 1927 and became Mother Teresa. On her way to a retreat in Darjeeling, India, on September 10, 1946, she believed she had “the call within the call”(Kelly). The first call was the call to the vocation and then the second call was to start her own order (Kelly). She wanted to work with the poorest of poor, sickest of sick, hungriest of the hungry, in the slums of Calcutta. When she returned from her retreat and ask for approval, Archbishop Perier denied her to start a new order (Duchane). He said there were already many Catholic orders working with the poor in India (Dunchane). He advised her to wait a year before sending her request to the Vatican. “She repeatedly told Father Van Exem that Jesus wanted the foundation right away and encouraged him to return to Archbishop Perier repeatly to change his mind.” The Archbishop stood firm on his decision(Dunchane). In 1948, the Archbishop decided that she could apply to start the new order(Dunchane). She was then sent to Patna to learn some basic medical skills for her new work (Dunchane). On October 1, 1950, the order of Missionaries of Charity was officially established. She had courage to do get the order approved and opened. Her courage continued when she opened the first Home for the Dying in 1952(Warren). On September 23, 1955, the Children’s home(Dunchane) was opened. The order then began to work with lepers in 1957(Warren). They established their first mission outside of India in 1965 in Venezuela(Warren). She received the prestigious Padma Shri award, India’s second highest honor in 1962 (Dunchane). In 1976, she was awarded the first Pope John XXIII Peace prize by the Vatican (Dunchane). Mother Teresa was awarded her highest recognition with being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 (Dunchane). She was then Awarded the Queen Elizabeth insignia of the Honorary Order of Merit in 1983 (Dunchane). In 1985, the order established their first of many AIDS ministries (Warren). In March 1997, she stepped down as head of Missionaries of Charity because of her increasingly poor health. She died on September 5, 1997. Her state funeral took place on September 13. Mother Teresa’s Beatification was held October 2003, one last step before canonization (Warren). Her mission has continued through the 4,500 Missionaries of Charity in 133 countries today (Kelley).
In the eyes of many Catholics around the world, Mother Teresa is a modern saint for all she has done. Her courage came from Christ within. The work she did was for all the people of Christ. Even if people she was helping weren’t Catholic that didn’t matter, they were still God’s children. Mother Teresa knew her purpose on earth was to help out all God’s children. No matter what you need courage for, I believe everyone has it within them. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless”- Mother Teresa (Duchane).
Duchane, Sangeet. “The Little book of Mother Teresa.” New York City, New York: Fall River Press, 2004
Kelly, Matthew. “Rediscover Catholicism.” Cincinnati, Ohio: Beacon Publishing, 2010
Warren, Rick. Time: “Mother Teresa at 100: The Life and Works of a Modern Saint.” New York City, New York: Time Magazine, 2010
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
This is my paper about I wrote for confirmation, since I picked her has my confirmation name.
Mother Teresa was born as Agnes Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in the city of Skopje in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. At the age of 18, Agnes decided to enter the vocation. Joining the Loreto Sisters, the Irish branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Agnes took the name Teresa from Saint Teresa of Avila. After being trained in Darjeeling, India as a teacher, she was sent to Calcutta to teach to Loreto Entally, a school run by the Loreto order. On May 24, 1937, Sister Teresa took her final vows at Loreto and became Mother Teresa. She continued to teach for 19 years. On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa believed that she was called to start a new order, Missionaries of Charity. It took church officials four years to approve the new order. On October 7, 1950, Missionaries of Charity was official established. Mother Teresa then established a Home for the Dying in Calcutta in 1952. The Home for Orphans was opened in 1955. She began her work with the lepers in 1957. The first Missionaries of Charity outside of India was in Venezuela in 1965. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She opened the first AIDS ministries in 1985. She stepped down as head of the Missionaries of Charity in March 1997 because of her increasingly poor health. Mother Teresa died September 5, 1997 and she received a state funeral on September 13. On October 19, 2003 Mother Teresa’s Beatification took place in Rome. Today there are over 4,500 sisters in the order and they are active in 133 countries.
Mother Teresa was born as Agnes Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in the city of Skopje in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. At the age of 18, Agnes decided to enter the vocation. Joining the Loreto Sisters, the Irish branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Agnes took the name Teresa from Saint Teresa of Avila. After being trained in Darjeeling, India as a teacher, she was sent to Calcutta to teach to Loreto Entally, a school run by the Loreto order. On May 24, 1937, Sister Teresa took her final vows at Loreto and became Mother Teresa. She continued to teach for 19 years. On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa believed that she was called to start a new order, Missionaries of Charity. It took church officials four years to approve the new order. On October 7, 1950, Missionaries of Charity was official established. Mother Teresa then established a Home for the Dying in Calcutta in 1952. The Home for Orphans was opened in 1955. She began her work with the lepers in 1957. The first Missionaries of Charity outside of India was in Venezuela in 1965. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She opened the first AIDS ministries in 1985. She stepped down as head of the Missionaries of Charity in March 1997 because of her increasingly poor health. Mother Teresa died September 5, 1997 and she received a state funeral on September 13. On October 19, 2003 Mother Teresa’s Beatification took place in Rome. Today there are over 4,500 sisters in the order and they are active in 133 countries.
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