Finding Calcutta : What Mother Teresa Taught Me about Meaningful Work and Service

English

Series: Veritas Bks.

ISBN: 0830834729

EAN: 9780830834723

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Religious/Religion / Christian Life / Professional Growth/Religion / Theology/

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Release Date: 10/31/2008

Synopsis: Lifelong educator Mary Poplin, after experiencing a newfound awakening to faith, sent a letter to Calcutta asking if she could visit Mother Teresa and volunteer with the Missionaries of Charity. She received a response saying, You are welcome to share in our works of love for the poorest of the poor. So in the spring of 1996, Poplin spent two months in Calcutta as a volunteer. There she observed Mother Teresas life of work and service to the poor, participating in the communitys commitments to simplicity and mercy. Poplins journey gives us an inside glimpse into one of the most influential lives of the twentieth century and the lessons Mother Teresa continues to offer. Mother Teresas unabashedly religious work stands in countercultural contrast to the limitations of our secular age. And Poplin soon discovered that God was calling her to the same kind of holistic service in her own Calcutta - the university world. Not everyone can go to Calcutta. But all of us can find our own meaningful work and service. Come and answer the call to find your Calcutta.--BOOK JACKET.

Finding Calcutta : What Mother Teresa Taught Me about Meaningful Work and Service

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.7 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 9.63 oz

Pages: 224