A Gift From The Sea Wedding Reading?

I love Gift from the Sea!! A good friend from high school gave me a copy when we were in our 20’s, and I liked it then, but I reread it a few years ago, and wow! So much more relatable and powerful after having children, dealing with major challenges, etc. Wasn’t it amazing how relevant her thoughts were on being overwhelmed and the distractions of “modern” life so many decades later? Love that your copy came from your mother and grandmother 🙂

I remember I loved Mother Teresa, and was all for her becoming beatified, until I read about her history. When I read what her nuns said about her, about what she was really like- that she was a tyrant who, in a nutshell, abused patients and themselves, I felt betrayed, and I was so angry. This woman sat there and kept medicine and necessities from desperate people because she claimed that pain and suffering made people closer to Jesus by sharing his own suffering, and yet, when she got sick, she got herself top-notch medical care. Guess she didn’t want to share in Jesus’ suffering. She was such a hypocrite. I’m still angry about it.

I have seen with my own eyes how the Mother Teresa order works, having places for the elders, children with physical problems that were dropped on the street, and the homeless… I guess it needs the character to build such an organization. For those that dare, go and face such harmful reality as She did it… you will get traumatized to discover that side of the reality.

As a person who worked as a volunteer in Normal Hriday..house of the dying…in Calcutta, this is total bullsh.t. As are many of the comments As the teacher in Nazareth said long ago: let those without sin cast the first stone… It’s just typical of modern ethics just criticise without any real knowledge if the situation on the ground Whoever made this should be ashamed of themselves. Cowards..

I never liked her and I’m glad people are finally starting to talk about this. I was at a radio station when the newsreader came on the line to read the news updates, which on that day included her death. I had to keep my mouth shut because everyone looked like they’d just lost their closest relative. I never understood the whole cult of personality she’d engineered, but she wasn’t the first, nor the last, to do so.

I remember a story my great grandfather told me, his uncle was very sick and the missionaries of Mother Teresa were running a small infirmary near their refuge camp, he was there for 2 weeks and the nuns were basically converting the patients to Christianity before their death, nearly two-thirds were converted on their death bed.

seems rather harsh to call her a fraud when the “mistake” was not to spend on things that she maybe didnt know/understood as important, and that she was ultimately a religious person that focused on the spiritual aspect rather than the material aspects of helping people. And how can she be expected to ensure the rehabilitation of the poor or the addressing of poverty? even governments cannot do it and a old nun is a fraud because she didnt do it? Ultimately did she earnestly try to do good? and was her work and inspiration to others a net good or bad?

I remember seeing a news report back in the mid eighties. She had travelled to the U.S. for one thing or another and, while there, she had ‘toured’ a newly opened men’s residence of some sort (like a homeless shelter or a Salvation Army recovery house or something) in New York City. Big news event. She single handedly decided that those men did not need the ‘lavish’ extras of beds, dressers, rugs, etc. one shot showed beds being lowered out of the windows to the street. She stated that all they needed was a mattress on the floor and nothing else in their rooms. For some reason her belief was their command and these men were stripped of any normalcy or dignity. It was then reported that afterward she had boarded a private plane to return to Europe. No one seemed to have any problem with that. I remember thinking “then why isn’t she rowing herself back across the Atlantic?” I never saw her as a “saintly” person after that episode and most people I knew for many years after would take affront when I criticized her so-called sainthood.

When people persecute & insult the ones that care for others, remember what Christ said : “If the world hates you, know that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you” – John 15:18-21

A devout and misled Catholic, I gave up on Mother T when she took the money for the Peace Prize banquet and turned down the banquet. She claimed the money would go to her lepers. All I could think of was the cooks and hotels and hostesses and dishwashers and musicians who were counting on the banquet to cover their life expenses…it was a PR gimmick.

Everything legit yet if these are the again fully legit questions you’re asking about money moves, expertise and training, the least you could do is asking the same questions about those fields of expertise that were indeed missing from there. It’s cool to finally stop church idealisation but that should go as a mindset, not be replaced with the official version of Science and expertise. Great points truly, just please let them run full circle.

My 2 nursing colleagues went to her hospital in the 1990, s after paying all their own expenses and accommodation. They went for 2 months, came back after 2 weeks. Scarred for life. Dying patients prayed over, but consistently refused morhine to alleviate pain. It was considered better for the dying person to be prayed over so they could suffer as christ suffered. God knows what happened to the worldwide money donations, it certainly wasn’t on medicine sterile equipment, or hospital beds or food. Beds were canvas pallets on floor. At that time, they were appealing for qualified nurses to volunteer. Friends said it looked worse than they imagined the front line crimean 1st WAR nursing stations were. Friends said no one could cope for more than a week. Friends had raised thousands for this charity, like many others who went. She was a sanctimonious fraud with a religious fixation.

The claim about indulgences is completely unfounded. Even if she wanted to, she doesn’t have the power to give indulgences. This article (and most of her critics, including Christopher Hitchens) comes from a place of hatred for the Church and her work. It is like the classic claim that we shouldn’t build a cathedral, but instead use money to feed the poor. Envious, spiteful, trying to tear down something beautiful. At the end of the day, nobody else was helping these people. Nobody else would live in the slums and have the heart to touch the dying.

All my life i adored respected and was a follower of Mother Teresa till the age of 22 That’s when during one of my conversations about how divine and godly Mother Teresa was, that one of my friend from Calcutta who actually overhead my conversation told me the absolute truth about her, and this was back in 2007 and it was hard for me to belive him at that time. And then i researched on my own and found out that my friend was actually telling the truth She was actually just a person who wanted to spread Christianity and for that she used the poor and their sufferings, she equated the sufferings of the poor to that of the curcifixion of Christ and made the poor belive that their suffering was for a divine cause and for path to paradise and to Jesus Christ She let them suffer and die even if proper medical care could have saved many of them, she would even take the children from the streets and the first thing she would do is baptise them to Christianity and then only took care of them, she just wanted to buy her place in heave, that’s all she did

I’m from India. For the majority of life even I believed that Teresa was a great person, as we were taught all the lies mentioned in the article. I couldn’t believe when I once came to know the truth a few years ago. These missionaries approach the poor even today with Hindu names and pretend to be Hindu priests (wearing saffron clothing and applying Tilak and wearing beads), even swapping many Christian names and concepts with Hindu ones to trick them into conversion. They refer to Jesus as Shiva/some other deity, The Cross as a tree, and use slogans like “Jai Khrist” (literal translation: Hail Christ).

Ironically missionaries of charity improved very much once mother died That lady didn’t use millions she got for any good work, just deposited it back in Vatican or opened new branches Now though local govt is doing much better job and they are at decline Observations from a seeing the functioning of local moc

When I was growing up Mother Teresa was effectively the face of selfless goodness. No one ever questioned it. Mother Teresa’s name was synonymous with purity. I get the feeling that her selflessness was a cover for an ultimate selfishness. What she was most interested in was securing her own ticket to heaven.

This is what happens when people (without expertise but only love) step into the gap of a problem so massive and systemic that it defies any sense of fairness that she would be expected to do anything more than love one person at a time. Yes, where are the doctors? They could volunteer. Where are the politicians who have the power to correct this. Her homes were not really for medical care. They were homes for the dying–people who were at the end of their lives and had had no one ever love them. I have a low opinion of people who mock and bully dead people, particularly old people and even more particularly nuns.

“Mother Teresa wanted people to live in impoverished conditions so she could identify with the poor whom she’s serving.” ― Bill Donahue, President of the Catholic League “Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.” ― Christopher Hitchens

A very brave thing to do when you already have an established website. Since childhood we’re taught of how saintly she was and how she’s the most pure being to have even lived in our era. But nobody talked about the amount of money they scammed, the wrong treatment to the patients, the negligence, those rapant religious conversions ( espescially in India).

There are many stories of people taking money as a charity. A small amount will go to what they say but there are expenses. Brochures posters and marketing cost most of the money you give. So $10 will be say $2 after overhead expenses. Many religions do this and it is Tax exempt. It is no different from someone being on the street for spare change. Money can go to bank accounts in Switzerland or whatever to build churches and so forth. Its like a politician using tax dollars to cater for their own home.

I’m a Christian and I came into this article with an open mind. I hate hypocrisy and how so many so called Christians in positions of power or fame use the faith to shield their self justified sins against others and the world. I choose truth and education in these things rather than believe everything I hear or the popular opinion. I’m glad this information is out there! I have a book of her quotes which I will keep, in line with the old expression, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. People are only people and a big mistake a lot of believers make is to elevate humans to a god status. This obviously happens in other arenas such as sports and politics, the list goes on. So who can you trust? Yourself, but only once you truly know your genuine self. If more people do that and practice ‘love your neighbor as yourself ‘ ideology, we can change society, the world around us and eventually the world as a whole.

two things can be true at once you can help people while at the same time benefiting from and perpetuating the exact systems that put the people in the position to require help in the first place. The truth is only she knew if she was evil or not nobody else. I feel most people like mother teresa see the benefits of their work on a small scale and want to see it grow as fast as possible and because of that fail to see or even be able to see what they are doing wrong

Her and Billy Graham … they meant well but became caught up in their ivory towers of vanity. All of us have sinned and fall short of God’s glory (Rom 3.23) Paul considered himself chief of sinners (did the Op, Billy, or Theresa?) … thus, a disclaimer for all of us … esp. missionaries. If Paul was chief of sinners … then I am worse. I’d rather have JESUS and LOVE with utmost forgiveness that JESUS died for. It is difficult to target the ‘best’ charity (LOVE). The true church vs. church-dom is also difficult to decipher. LORD, have mercy on us all.

I swear most of the comments are quotes and inspirational paragraphs while I’m over here still trying processing everything Also Just because a person has donated one’s money and food to a helpless person doesn’t mean their heart is good and pure, it could be a lot more deceitful then it seems so choose the people you can trust carefully. Also good luck for this year as well as the years to come and I hope you take this peace of advice😊

I remember that when in England UK growing up, I always used to see charity bags outside our houses for clothes, linen, shoes etc to be sent to poverty stricken third world countries. Now I’m married & living in India, I’ve seen that those items are not distributed to the poor but sold on the streets. Exploitation of the less fortunate, sadly what a con !! This is a giant racket with great manipulation of extremely large funds & fraudsters involved 🙁

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.(c) 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant(d) is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin”

Many years ago I started a new teaching job in an SEN school in the UK. My colleagues learned that I had spent the previous 12 years as a volunteer in Africa and Asia so introduced me to a colleague who had spent 6 months at an MT facility. She said, with Christian humility, “Do you know what the most important lesson Mother Teresa taught me was?” I replied “Moisturise?” It was a slightly awkward moment but they soon got the hang of me.