The beginning
Activities
A. Read the text and choose the best answer.
It was late summer, 26 August 1910. A little girl was born to a rich Catholic merchants' family of Albanian descent in a small town called Skopje, Macedonia. She was the youngest of the three siblings and was named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Who could imagine at the time that this little girl would one day become the mother of humanity, loving and serving the poorest of the poor. Yes, we are talking about none other than Mother Teresa. At the age of 12, she heard a voice from within that urged her to spread the love of Christ. She decided that she would be a missionary. At the age of 18 she left her parental home. She then joined an Irish community of nuns called the Sisters of Loreto, which had missions in India.
After a few months of training at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin, Mother Teresa came to India. On May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948, Mother Teresa taught geography and theology at St. Mary's High School in Kolkata (then Calcutta). However, the widespread poverty in Kolkata had a deep impact on Mother Teresa and in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent and devote herself to caring for the poorest of the poor in the slums of Kolkata.
1. What does ‘mother of humanity' mean in the text?
2. Why did Mother Teresa want to be a missionary?
Because she heard
3. Mother Teresa set out to join the missionary of the Sisters of Loreto in the year
4. Mother Teresa took her first vows as a nun at the age of
5. Initially, Mother Teresa worked as a
6. Where was Mother Teresa born?
7. What is the name of the Irish community that had missions in India?
B. Read the text in A again and answer the questions.
E. Write down the chronicles of Mother Teresa’s life from her childhood to adulthood in a chart box. Show the flow of the life incidents. The first incident is given as an example:
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Born in Autumn, August 26, 1910
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Joined the Irish community of nuns at 18 |
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took her initial vow as nun on May 24, 1931 |
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taught geography and theology from 1931-1948 |
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left the convent to serve the poor in 1948 |