Mother Teresa is a painting by Carole Spandau which was uploaded on March 4th, 2009.
Mother Teresa
On 10 September 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as the call within the call while traveling by train to the Loreto convent in... more
Title
Mother Teresa
Artist
Carole Spandau
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
On 10 September 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" while traveling by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith." As one author later noted, "Though no one knew it at the time, Sister Teresa had just become Mother Teresa".
She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948, replacing her traditional Loreto habit with a simple white cotton sari decorated with a blue border. Mother Teresa adopted Indian citizenship, spent a few months in Patna to receive a basic medical training in the Holy Family Hospital and then ventured out into the slums.Initially she started a school in Motijhil (Calcutta); soon she started tending to the needs of the destitute and starving. In the beginning of 1949 she was joined in her effort by a group of young women and laid the foundations to create a new religious community helping the "poorest among the poor".She wrote in her diary:
Our Lord wants me to be a free nun covered with the poverty of the cross. Today I learned a good lesson. The poverty of the poor must be so hard for them. While looking for a home I walked and walked till my arms and legs ached. I thought how much they must ache in body and soul, looking for a home, food and health. Then the comfort of Loreto [her former order] came to tempt me. 'You have only to say the word and all that will be yours again,' the Tempter kept on saying ... Of free choice, my God, and out of love for you, I desire to remain and do whatever be your Holy will in my regard. I did not let a single tear come.
Uploaded
March 4th, 2009
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Comments (46)
Bernadette Krupa
Carole, enticingly beautiful "Mother Teresa"! Congrats on multiple features - Old Masters - Pain..., Red Maple Gallery and Canadian Artists!! L/Fâ„
CAROLE SPANDAU
Lenore, thank you for featuring my painting,Mother Teresa, in your group, Old Masters.
CAROLE SPANDAU
Maria,thank you for featuring my painting,Mother Teresa, in your group, Red Maple Gallery
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in the RED MAPLE GALLERY, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
CAROLE SPANDAU
Mary, thank you for featuring my painting,Mother Teresa, in your group, Canadian Artists.
CAROLE SPANDAU
Janis, thank you for featuring my painting,Mother Teresa, in your group, Just Perfect.
CAROLE SPANDAU
Lyric, thank you for featuring my painting,Mother Teresa, in your group, Bedroom Art Galery.
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured on the home page of the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. 8/29/22 l/f/pin
Debby Pueschel
A magnificent woman! Congratulations on your feature in FAA Gallery Home for All Artists Who Create. FL
CAROLE SPANDAU
Taphath, thank you for featuring my painting,Mother Teresa, in your group,Your Best Work.
Lori Pittenger
Congratulations your outstanding artwork has been featured on the leading page of Impressionism group 8/21/2022! Please visit the group to view it in our online gallery. Excellent work!
Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Carole!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "Your Best Work"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! đ
CAROLE SPANDAU
Karen, thank you for featuring my painting,Mother Teresa, in your group,Lady Photographers and Artists
CAROLE SPANDAU
Julie, thank you for featuring my painting,Mother Teresa, in your group, your Story of art
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