ABOUT US

About the Institute

Mother Teresa Institute (MTI)  is an outgrowth of the work and activities of The Mother Teresa Center, a non-profit organization established and directed by the religious family founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, The Missionaries of Charity.

The aim of the MTI is to preserve, protect, promote, and develop the authentic legacy of Saint Teresa of Calcutta to the Church and to the world. The MTI will provide resources to students, scholars and researchers who are interested in Mother Teresa, her life, charism and message, giving them the opportunity to study in depth one of the great saints of modern times and a humanitarian figure who made an enormous difference to the welfare of the poorest of the poor and had broad influence in the Church and the world.

"God is love, and when we love we are like God. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “Be perfect as your Father is perfect".

Mother Teresa

About Saint Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu) was born of Albanian parents in Skopje in 1910. Journeying as a missionary to India, she labored many years as a teacher before hearing the “call within the call,” “to give up all and follow Him into the slums—to serve Him in the poorest of the poor,” and so satiate the thirst of Jesus for love and the salvation of souls by founding the Missionaries of Charity. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, and was canonized by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016.

Her legacy lives on today, across the globe, through the tireless work of the .

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