Dimapur set to celebrate canonisation of Mother Teresa

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 1: Missionaries of Charity (MC), a charitable congregation which is an offshoot of Mother Teresa, is all set to observe the celebration of Mother Teresa’s Canonisation on September 4, 2016, along with the rest of the World. The celebration will begin on September 4 at Holy Cross Parish Church, Dimapur, and on September 5 at the Convent of Missionaries of Charity, River Belt Colony, Dimapur. This was informed at a press meet by the organising committee on Thursday in Dimapur.

The Convent of Missionaries of Charity has been in the State for the past 28 years after the visitation of Mother Teresa of Kolkata in the early 1984 in Dimapur, which is a home for the poorest among the poor and destitute, on the theme “Mother Teresa and her mission in Nagaland”.

Addressing media persons, Sister Godelaine MC, Superior of the Convent, Sister Mamta MC and Sister Theophany MC, while remarking that the Missionaries of Charity led by Mother Teresa had always worked for the poorest among the poor away from glare of publicity, through the celebration of the Canonisation people should be aware of the works started by Mother Teresa.

The Missionaries of Charity, while highlighting on the charity works reached till date, accentuated that Dimapur still has lots of people who are not cared and also accounted the highest number of abortions with at least 200 cases in a day.

“The Convent of Missionaries of Charity, which is affiliated to the Missionaries of Charity, Kolkata, is always opened to all people irrespective of caste or religion and we convert people to be a better person and not religion,” stated the missionaries of charity. From infants to -old aged -to abandoned women- to differently abled, the house shelters the destitute even to the extend of giving a decent burial to the death according to their respective rituals with expenses borne by the missionaries.

Spending most of their times in nervous to feed the many people they shelter, the missionaries of charity accounted that they receive at least five to six people in a day and they also run a dispensary which is open two days in a week to gather to the needs of the destitute.