Mother Teresa, Louise Chipley Slavicek
Mother Teresa, Louise Chipley Slavicek
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Mother Teresa
Caring for the World's Poor

Author: Louise Chipley Slavicek

Narrator: Julie Williams

Unabridged: 2 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2010


Synopsis

Mother Teresa is an informative introduction to the famous Catholic nun. Mother Teresa is one of the most admired Nobel laureates of all time. Born in Eastern Europe of Albanian parents, she became a Catholic missionary nun in India when she was still a teenager. After teaching in a convent school in Calcutta for nearly two decades, in 1946 she claimed that she heard God calling her to live and work among "the poorest of the poor" in that city's slums.
With the assistance of the religious order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, over the next half-century Mother Teresa devoted herself to society's forgotten and unwanted, not only in India but in countries all over the globe. In recognition of her selfless efforts on behalf of the world's suffering, Mother Teresa received numerous honors during her lifetime, including the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, which she was awarded in 1979. Mother Teresa is a stirring biography of a woman who gave voice to those most often ignored and neglected by society at large, and whose name has forever become synonymous with tireless charity. The book is published by Chelsea House Publishers, a leading publisher of educational material.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu on December 13, 2020

(Throwback review) Navin Chawla's book about Mother Theresa is one of my favorite books of all time. This is a review I wrote for a magazine which I am sharing with you here. Missionaries of charity,54A, JC Bose Road, Kolkata, is the address synonymous with the everlasting source of love. Ever......more

Goodreads review by Anil on April 13, 2014

Very rarely do you come across personalities who dedicated their lives for selfless service on the scale as Mother Teresa. What the book does so beautifully is to portray her persona so vividly. This could have only been done by someone who knew her well and took the trouble to know her. Various ins......more

Goodreads review by Katie on December 16, 2008

I read this book years ago - it came into my life at a time I needed it - I enjoyed the book and was humbled by all that she gave - with that said there is a part of me that is sad that she gave up so much and that after her death her writings detailed how detached she felt from God - this was depre......more

Goodreads review by Isabella on December 16, 2008

everybody should find out about her......more

Goodreads review by Tina on May 24, 2024

It is a remarkable life that Mother Teresa led. I like the book but I feel it is lacking some substance. So much more angles of Teresa’s thinking and doing could have been considered. There are also inconsistencies that annoy me; e.g. in the first chapter it says that Teresa was born in 1910 and tha......more