Dalai Lama express joy at Mother Teresa’s sanctification/ENG

2016. szeptember 6./Phayul.com/TibetPress

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By Tenzin Dharpo

DHARAMSHALA, Sept 6: The Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed joy at the canonization of late Mother Teresa in a letter to the Mother Superior of the Missionaries of Charity yesterday.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote that he was joining in “celebrating her extraordinary life”. “Meeting Mother Teresa it was clear she was an exemplary person. I was reminded of this when I made a special visit to the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata last year to pay tribute to her and the sisters’ work. She revealed the true practice of love in her charitable activities. Although she is no longer physically with us, her spirit lives on in the work you all do,” the Dalai Lama wrote.

He further wrote, “I rejoice at this recognition as an admirer of her dedicated service to humanity, particularly the way she cared for the poorest of the poor. I join you in celebrating her extraordinary life.

The Dalai Lama’s association with Mother Teresa goes back a few decades when they first met in Oxford, England, in 1988. The Tibetan leader has on many occasion expressed admiration for her humanitarian work and service to the underprivileged. “Mother Teresa dedicated herself sincerely to the poor. As an admirer it is my duty to pay tribute to her. She was practical in her prayers, actually putting them into action by taking care of the poor,” the octogenarian leader said of Mother Teresa last year while visiting her tomb in Kolkata.

St. Teresa of Calcutta’ s canonization ceremony was attended by thousands of devotees and pilgrims at St. Peter’s square at the Vatican on Sunday (Sept. 4). In India, particularly Kolkata where she stood in world view for serving the poor, hundreds celebrated the proceedings and congregated into large masses.