学习好榜样传递正能量003特蕾莎修女的故事

诺贝尔和平奖得主特蕾莎修女的故事

特蕾莎修女（Mother Teresa of Calcutta，1910年8月27日～1997年9月5日，又译作德兰修女、特里莎修女、泰瑞莎修女），是世界著名的天主教慈善工作者，主要替印度加尔各答的穷人服务。

特蕾莎是阿尔巴尼亚人，她18岁就来到了印度。她之所以去印度，因为那里是最贫穷的地方，仅加尔各答一个城市，街头流浪的人就有50多万。每天有无数人死在街头。据统计，80年代初，印度6亿人中就有3.5亿生活在贫困线以下，大多数人死于饥饿、疾病，每年死于营养不良的儿童就有50万。看见这些报道，德蕾莎修女毅然来到陌生的印度，以后就没有离开那里，最终成为印度的骄傲。特蕾莎修女在去世前不久告诉世人：“从血缘上讲，我是阿尔巴尼亚人；从公民身份上讲，我是印度人；但从信仰上讲，我属于全世界。”

1979年，诺贝尔和平奖评奖委员会从56位候选人中，选出了这位除了爱一无所有的德蕾莎修女。她本来不想领这个奖的，但是她还是去了，为了那些饥寒交迫、流落街头和伤残疾病的人们，以及那些被忽略不被关怀的人们。她穿着一件只值一美元的印度纱丽走上领奖台，不管是和总统会见还是服侍穷人，她都穿着这件衣服，她没有别的衣服。台下坐着珠光宝气身份显赫的贵人，她视而不见，她的眼中只有穷人。她是那么瘦小，以至于大家使劲伸长脖子也只能看见一张布满皱纹的脸。但是当她讲话的时候，台下立即鸦雀无声：“这个荣誉，我个人不配，我是代表世界上所有的穷人、病人和孤独的人来领奖的，因为我相信，你们愿意借着颁奖给我，而承认穷人也有尊严。”

全世界许多的大学争相颁授荣誉学位给特蕾莎，各地也纷纷邀请她去演讲，特蕾莎修女成为拥有众多头衔的名人。但是，她从未被这些虚荣迷惑，她穿著朴素，单纯地接受这些由人而来的赞美与光荣。她代表穷人发表简单的感言，词句里充满了爱与感谢。她这样说道：“这项荣誉，我个人不配领受，今天，我来接受这项奖金，是代表世界上的穷人、病人和孤独的人。”

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所以，把这笔巨额奖金全部用来为穷人和受苦受难的人们办事，这对她来说是最最自然不过的事情。媒体问她：“我们可能做什么促进世界和平？”她回答说：“回家和爱您的家庭。”

特蕾莎修女一无所有，但她创建的仁爱传教修女会有4亿多美金的资产，全世界最有钱的公司都争相给她捐款。但是她一生却坚守贫困，她住的地方，只有两样电器，一个是电灯，一个是电话。她的全部财产是一个耶稣像，几件衣服，一双凉鞋。她平时不穿鞋，因为很多印度穷人没有鞋穿，如果她的脚上有鞋子，看到穷人也会把鞋子送给他们，这个习惯一直到她逝世。

她在全世界127个国家有600多个分支机构，她用最快的速度，最高的效率在全世界发展机构，仅1960年一年，就在印度建起了26所收容中心和儿童之家。她的办公室只有一个桌子、一把椅子，她接待全世界的来访者总是在她的工作岗位——贫民窟、弃婴院、临终医院、麻风病院、收容院、爱滋病收容所……她的机构就在她所服务的每一个地方，他的成员大部分是志愿者。那些来采访的全世界的著名记者，必须和她一样蹲下来为穷人病人喂饭送药。许多银行家、大企业家、政治家、大学生、演员、模特、富家小姐、大学校长都千里迢迢来到这里，在这里做他们一辈子没有做过的事情：洗碗，给病人穿衣服，喂水喂饭，洗衣服，送药。他们中有人写道：“现在我才知道，我一直在躲避着人类的真正穷困和不幸，其实我从来没有真正爱过。”

1997年9月5日，特雷莎修女去世的噩耗传来，引起了全世界的震动。印度最大的城市加尔各答大雨倾盆，在大雨中痛哭的人有回教徒、印度教徒、徒、教徒、佛教徒……成千上万的普通人冒着倾盆大雨走上街头，悼念敬爱的“特丽莎嬷嬷”。宣布为她举行国葬，全国哀悼两天。印度总理亲自前往加尔各答敬献花圈、发表吊唁演说，称“她是少有的慈悲天使，是光明和希望的象征，她抹去了千千万万人苦难的眼泪，她给印度带来巨大的荣誉”。从新加坡到英国，从新西兰到美国，各国元首和首脑纷纷发表讲话，为这位“仁慈天使”的逝世感到悲痛。联合国都教科文组织专门发表声明向她致敬，罗马教廷专门举行弥撒为她追思，菲律宾红衣主教梅辛称她是“代表和平、代表牺牲、代表欢乐”的象征，甚至印度最大的

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清真寺的教长布哈里也说，她是一位“永生的伟大的圣人！”她的身后，有数不清的追随者和义务工作者，分布在100多个国家。

2003年10月，教皇约翰·保罗二世将特蕾莎修女列入天主教宣福名单Beatification，尊其为真福特蕾莎（Blessed Teresa）。从12岁起，直到87岁去世，她把一切都献给了穷人、病人、孤儿、孤独者、无家可归者和垂死临终者。在这个世界上，一切都会消失，但只有爱会留下来！

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有一天，特蕾莎要到巴丹医院商量工作，在靠近车站的广场旁发现了一位老妇人，倒在路上，像是死了一般。特蕾莎蹲下来仔细一看：破布裹着脚，爬满了蚂蚁，头上好像被老鼠咬了一个洞，残留着血迹，伤口周围满是苍蝇和蛆虫。她赶紧替老妇人测量呼吸及脉搏，似乎还有一口气，于是她为她赶走苍蝇，驱走蚂蚁，擦去血迹和蛆虫。特蕾莎心想，如果任她躺在那里，必死无疑。于是她暂时放弃了去巴丹的行动，请人帮忙把老妇人送到附近的医院。医院开始时对这个没有家属的老妇人不予理会，但医师在特蕾莎的再三恳求下，便替老妇人做检查，然后对特蕾莎说：“必须暂时住院，等脱离危险期后，再需找个地方静养。”特蕾莎把病人托给医院后，立即到市公所保健所，希望能提供一个让贫困病人休养的场所。市公所保健所的所长是位热心的人，他仔细听完特蕾莎的请求后，便带她来到加尔各答一座有名的卡里寺院，答应将寺庙后面信徒朝拜后的一处地方免费提供给他使用。他们一开始受到印度教区婆罗门的强烈反对，理由是特蕾莎修女不是印度人。然而特蕾莎修女不畏反对，依然在街头抢救许多临危的病患到收容所来替他们清洗，给他们休息的地方，其中也包括印度教的僧侣。此举感动了许多的印度人，于是反对声浪就渐渐地平息了。

自从找到这个落脚点后，不到一天的时间，修女们就将三十多个最贫困痛苦的人安顿了下来。其中有个老人，在搬来的那天傍晚即断了气，临死前，他拉着特蕾莎的手，用孟加拉语低声地说：“我一生活得像条狗，而我现在死得像个人，谢谢了。”

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光靠特蕾莎及修女们的工作，要救助全加尔各答的垂死者是不可能的，但特蕾莎有她自己独特的看法。她认为人类的不幸并不是贫困、生病或饥饿，真正的不幸是当人们生病或贫困时没有人伸出援手。即使死去，临终前也应有个归宿，这就是特蕾莎向垂死者的爱。

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1948年，38岁的特蕾莎修女离开爱尔兰的罗瑞托修道院，来到印度加尔各答。她做的第一件事，就是脱下了罗瑞托修女穿着的蓝色的道袍，改穿印度平民妇女常穿的白色棉纱丽。

特蕾莎修女是在车站后面的贫民窟展开工作的。这里到处是破烂不堪的小木屋和衣衫褴褛的脏孩子。有一天，一个说孟加拉语的小孩，向特蕾莎修女要东西。这个孩子只有一条腿，而且断肢处还在流血。特蕾莎修女准备取药给他包扎时，小孩却说他想要吃的东西，边说边做出吃东西的样子。此时她身上只有五个卢比，于是很抱歉地对小孩说：“我是个穷修女，我只能替你包扎伤口。”正准备帮他涂药的时候，小孩突然抓过药品，叫着“这个给我”，便拄着拐棍向贫民窟跑去。想了解究竟的特蕾莎修女紧跟着小孩跑进一个小窝棚，窝棚里面漆黑一片，隐隐约约地可以看见木板上躺着一个妇女，在她身边还有一个婴孩和一个约五岁的女孩，三个人骨瘦如柴、目光呆滞、非常虚弱。她用孟加拉语与他们交谈，知道了小孩叫巴布，八岁了，那个妇女是他的母亲，患有结核病，窝棚里的另外两个小孩是他的弟弟妹妹。特蕾莎修女只能把她所带的维生素丸给了他们。那妇人十分感激，向她行合掌礼，并说：“这里边还有生着病的老妇人，也请你看看她吧。”特蕾莎修女听到这句话，内心受到了很大的震动：为什么穷人会有那么善良的心？自己患着病，还关心着别人呢！

那一天，特蕾莎修女连续看望了许多家庭，独腿的巴布和一些小孩一直好奇地跟随着她，巴布还请求特蕾莎修女第二天再来。

白天的经历让特蕾莎修女难以入睡，这些可怜的孩子们不但没有饭吃，没有衣穿，甚至连自己的名字也不会写，不会数最简单的数字，将来长大了怎么办？要从根本上解救这些孩子，

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莫过于让他们掌握知识！于是，在贫民区里办一所露天学校的想法，在特蕾莎修女的头脑中成熟了。

第二天，在一块大树下面的空地上，特蕾莎修女宣布那里就是教室，地面就是黑板，愿意念书的就坐下来。经过她的耐心说服，巴布首先坐了下来，接着又坐下了四个孩子。特蕾莎修女饶有趣味的讲课，渐渐地吸引了他们，其他的孩子也慢慢地走近了大树。等到第二天特蕾莎修女再次来到大树下的时候，发现这里已经用破布、木板等物搭起了一座帐篷，坐在里面的小孩也比昨天多得多了。巴布告诉她：“这个棚子是大家帮着盖的，我把朋友都找来上课了。”

就在这简陋的“教室”里，特蕾莎修女除了教孩子们一些简单的读读写写之外，还教他们卫生常识，比如刷牙、洗脸、洗澡等。她还亲自带孩子们到井边，一个个教他们如何洗澡。贫民窟的妇女们将这些看在眼里，记在心里，很快地，她们也仿效特蕾莎的做法，替自己的孩子洗澡了。

特蕾莎修女在贫民窟办露天学校的事儿很快就传开了，一个星期后，来听课的孩子达到了一百多人，后来又增加到了五百多人。

加尔各答是印度贫穷人口聚集的城市。由于贫穷，弃婴之多，景象之惨，实在是人世间少有的。继兴办贫民学校之后，特蕾莎又和别的修女们一起，承担了收养那些骨瘦如柴、疾病缠身、先天残疾的弃婴的工作。

修女们不仅收养丢弃在修道院门口的婴孩，还抱回了其他地方所见的弃婴，有些穷人甚至还将自己养不起的孩子也送过来。弃婴收养的数目越来越多，产生的影响也越来越大，于是购买药品、奶粉及粮食的经费就出现了经常的短缺。但奇怪的是，每当发生这种短缺的时候，必定会有人送来金钱、食品、药品、衣服等，帮助她们渡过难关。

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特蕾莎修女的获奖演说

As we have gathered here together to thank God for the Nobel Peace Prize, I think it will be beautiful that we pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi which always surprises me very much - we pray this prayer every day after Holy Communion, because it is very fitting for each one of us, and I always wonder that 4-500 years ago as St. Francis of Assisi composed this prayer that they had the same difficulties that we have today, as we compose this prayer that fits very nicely for us also. I think some of you already have got it - so we will pray together.

Let us thank God for the opportunity that we all have together today, for this gift of peace that reminds us that we have been created to live that peace, and Jesus became man to bring that good news to the poor. He being God became man in all things like us except sin, and he proclaimed very clearly that he had come to give the good news. The news was peace to all of good will and this is something that we all want - the peace of heart - and God loved the world so much that he gave his son - it was a giving - it is as much as if to say it hurt God to give, because he loved the world so much that he gave his son, and he gave him to Virgin Mary, and what did she do with him?

As soon as he came in her life - immediately she went in haste to give that good news, and as she came into the house of her cousin, the child - the unborn child - the child in the womb of Elizabeth, leapt with joy. He was that little unborn child, was the first messenger of peace. He recognized the Prince of Peace, he recognized that Christ has come to bring the good news for you and for me. And as if that was not enough - it was not enough to become a man - he died on the cross to show that greater love,

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and he died for you and for me and for that leper and for that man dying of hunger and that naked person lying in the street not only of Calcutta, but of Africa, and New York, and London, and Oslo - and insisted that we love one another as he loves each one of us. And we read that in the Gospel very clearly - love as I have loved you - as I love you - as the Father has loved me, I love you - and the harder the Father loved him, he gave him to us, and how much we love one another, we, too, must give each other until it hurts. It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live. And so this is very important for us to realise that love, to be true, has to hurt. It hurt Jesus to love us, it hurt him. And to make sure we remember his great love he made himself the bread of life to satisfy our hunger for his love. Our hunger for God, because we have been created for that love. We have been created in his image. We have been created to love and be loved, and then he has become man to make it possible for us to love as he loved us. He makes himself the hungry one - the naked one - the homeless one - the sick one - the one in prison - the lonely one - the unwanted one - and he says: You did it to me. Hungry for our love, and this is the hunger of our poor people. This is the hunger that you and I must find, it may be in our own home.

I never forget an opportunity I had in visiting a home where they had all these old parents of sons and daughters who had just put them in an institution and forgotten maybe. And I went there, and I saw in that home they had everything, beautiful things, but everybody was looking towards the door. And I did not see a single one with their

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smile on their face. And I turned to the Sister and I asked: How is that? How is it that the people they have everything here, why are they all looking towards the door, why are they not smiling? I am so used to see the smile on our people, even the dying one smile, and she said: This is nearly every day, they are expecting, they are hoping that a son or daughter will come to visit them. They are hurt because they are forgotten, and see - this is where love comes. That poverty comes right there in our own home, even neglect to love. Maybe in our own family we have somebody who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried, and these are difficult days for everybody. Are we there, are we there to receive them, is the mother there to receive the child?

I was surprised in the West to see so many young boys and girls given into drugs, and I tried to find out why - why is it like that, and the answer was: Because there is no one in the family to receive them. Father and mother are so busy they have no time. Young parents are in some institution and the child takes back to the street and gets involved in something. We are talking of peace. These are things that break peace, but I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing - direct murder by the mother herself. And we read in the Scripture, for God says very clearly: Even if a mother could forget her child - I will not forget you - I have carved you in the palm of my hand. We are carved in the palm of His hand, so close to Him that unborn child has been carved in the hand of God. And that is what strikes me most, the beginning of that sentence, that even if a mother could forget something impossible - but even if she could forget - I will not forget you. And today the greatest means - the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion. And we who are standing here - our parents wanted us. We would not be here if our parents would do

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that to us. Our children, we want them, we love them, but what of the millions. Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you kill me - there is nothing between. And this I appeal in India, I appeal everywhere: Let us bring the child back, and this year being the child's year: What have we done for the child? At the beginning of the year I told, I spoke everywhere and I said: Let us make this year that we make every single child born, and unborn, wanted. And today is the end of the year, have we really made the children wanted? I will give you something terrifying. We are fighting abortion by adoption, we have saved thousands of lives, we have sent words to all the clinics, to the hospitals, police stations - please don't destroy the child, we will take the child. So every hour of the day and night it is always somebody, we have quite a number of unwedded mothers - tell them come, we will take care of you, we will take the child from you, and we will get a home for the child. And we have a tremendous demand from families who have no children, that is the blessing of God for us. And also, we are doing another thing which is very beautiful - we are teaching our beggars, our leprosy patients, our slum dwellers, our people of the street, natural family planning.

And in Calcutta alone in six years - it is all in Calcutta - we have had 61,273 babies less from the families who would have had, but because they practise this natural way of abstaining, of self-control, out of love for each other. We teach them the temperature meter which is very beautiful, very simple, and our poor people

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understand. And you know what they have told me? Our family is healthy, our family is united, and we can have a baby whenever we want. So clear - those people in the street, those beggars - and I think that if our people can do like that how much more you and all the others who can know the ways and means without destroying the life that God has created in us.

The poor people are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things. The other day one of them came to thank and said: You people who have vowed chastity you are the best people to teach us family planning. Because it is nothing more than self-control out of love for each other. And I think they said a beautiful sentence. And these are people who maybe have nothing to eat, maybe they have not a home where to live, but they are great people. The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition - and I told the Sisters: You take care of the other three, I take of this one that looked worse. So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand, as she said one word only: Thank you - and she died.

I could not help but examine my conscience before her, and I asked what would I say if I was in her place. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself, I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much more - she gave me her grateful love. And she died with a smile on her face. As that man whom we picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for. And it was so

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wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel - this is the greatness of our people. And that is why we believe what Jesus had said: I was hungry - I was naked - I was homeless - I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for - and you did it to me.

I believe that we are not real social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world. For we are touching the Body of Christ 24 hours. We have 24 hours in this presence, and so you and I. You too try to bring that presence of God in your family, for the family that prays together stays together. And I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

There is so much suffering, so much hatred, so much misery, and we with our prayer, with our sacrifice are beginning at home. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do. It is to God Almighty - how much we do it does not matter, because He is infinite, but how much love we put in that action. How much we do to Him in the person that we are serving.

Some time ago in Calcutta we had great difficulty in getting sugar, and I don't know how the word got around to the children, and a little boy of four years old, Hindu boy, went home and told his parents: I will not eat sugar for three days, I will give my sugar to Mother Teresa for her children. After three days his father and mother brought him to our home. I had never met them before, and this little one

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could scarcely pronounce my name, but he knew exactly what he had come to do. He knew that he wanted to share his love.

And this is why I have received such a lot of love from you all. From the time that I have come here I have simply been surrounded with love, and with real, real understanding love. It could feel as if everyone in India, everyone in Africa is somebody very special to you. And I felt quite at home I was telling Sister today. I feel in the Convent with the Sisters as if I am in Calcutta with my own Sisters. So completely at home here, right here.

And so here I am talking with you - I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people. And find out about your next-door neighbour - do you know who they are? I had the most extraordinary experience with a Hindu family who had eight children. A gentleman came to our house and said: Mother Teresa, there is a family with eight children, they had not eaten for so long - do something. So I took some rice and I went there immediately. And I saw the children - their eyes shinning with hunger - I don't know if you have ever seen hunger. But I have seen it very often. And she took the rice, she divided the rice, and she went out. When she came back I asked her - where did you go, what did you do? And she gave me a very simple answer: They are hungry also. What struck me most was that she knew - and who are they, a Muslim family - and she knew. I didn't bring more rice that evening because I wanted them to enjoy the joy of sharing. But there were those children, radiating joy, sharing the joy with their mother because she had the love to give. And you see this is where love begins - at home. And I want you - and I am very grateful for what I have received. It has been a

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tremendous experience and I go back to India - I will be back by next week, the 15th I hope - and I will be able to bring your love.

And I know well that you have not given from your abundance, but you have given until it has hurt you. Today the little children they have - I was so surprised - there is so much joy for the children that are hungry. That the children like themselves will need love and care and tenderness, like they get so much from their parents. So let us thank God that we have had this opportunity to come to know each other, and this knowledge of each other has brought us very close. And we will be able to help not only the children of India and Africa, but will be able to help the children of the whole world, because as you know our Sisters are all over the world. And with this prize that I have received as a prize of peace, I am going to try to make the home for many people that have no home. Because I believe that love begins at home, and if we can create a home for the poor - I think that more and more love will spread. And we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace, be the good news to the poor. The poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world.

To be able to do this, our Sisters, our lives have to be woven with prayer. They have to be woven with Christ to be able to understand, to be able to share. Because today there is so much suffering - and I feel that the passion of Christ is being relived all over again - are we there to share that passion, to share that suffering of people. Around the world, not only in the poor countries, but I found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that

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has been thrown out from society - that poverty is so hurtable and so much, and I find that very difficult. Our Sisters are working amongst that kind of people in the West. So you must pray for us that we may be able to be that good news, but we cannot do that without you, you have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor, maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each, other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something. So you pray for our Sisters and for me and for our Brothers, and for our Co-Workers that are around the world. That we may remain faithful to the gift of God, to love Him and serve Him in the poor together with you. What we have done we should not have been able to do if you did not share with your prayers, with your gifts, this continual giving. But I don't want you to give me from your abundance, I want that you give me until it hurts.

The other day I received 15 dollars from a man who has been on his back for twenty years, and the only part that he can move is his right hand. And the only companion that he enjoys is smoking. And he said to me: I do not smoke for one week, and I send you this money. It must have been a terrible sacrifice for him, but see how beautiful, how he shared, and with that money I bought bread and I gave to those who are hungry with a joy on both sides, he was giving and the poor were receiving. This is something that you and I - it is a gift of God to us to be able to share our love with others. And let it be as it was for Jesus. Let us love one another as he loved us. Let

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us love Him with undivided love. And the joy of loving Him and each other - let us give now - that Christmas is coming so close. Let us keep that joy of loving Jesus in our hearts. And share that joy with all that we come in touch with. And that radiating joy is real, for we have no reason not to be happy because we have no Christ with us. Christ in our hearts, Christ in the poor that we meet, Christ in the smile that we give and the smile that we receive. Let us make that one point: That no child will be unwanted, and also that we meet each other always with a smile, especially when it is difficult to smile.

I never forget some time ago about fourteen professors came from the United States from different universities. And they came to Calcutta to our house. Then we were talking about that they had been to the home for the dying. We have a home for the dying in Calcutta, where we have picked up more than 36,000 people only from the streets of Calcutta, and out of that big number more than 18,000 have died a beautiful death. They have just gone home to God; and they came to our house and we talked of love, of compassion, and then one of them asked me: Say, Mother, please tell us something that we will remember, and I said to them: Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. Smile at each other. And then another one asked me: Are you married, and I said: Yes, and I find it sometimes very difficult to smile at Jesus because he can be very demanding sometimes. This is really something true, and there is where love comes - when it is demanding, and yet we can give it to Him with joy. Just as I have said today, I have said that if I don't go to Heaven for anything else I will be going to Heaven for all the publicity because it has purified me and sacrificed me and made me really ready to go to Heaven. I think that this is something,

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that we must live life beautifully, we have Jesus with us and He loves us. If we could only remember that God loves me, and I have an opportunity to love others as he loves me, not in big things, but in small things with great love, then Norway becomes a nest of love. And how beautiful it will be that from here a centre for peace has been given. That from here the joy of life of the unborn child comes out. If you become a burning light in the world of peace, then really the Nobel Peace Prize is a gift of the Norwegian people. God bless you!.

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