[CS-FSLUG] OT: Blessed (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta once said:
Eduardo Sanchez
lists at sombragris.org
Tue Mar 14 07:03:14 CST 2006
On Monday 13 March 2006 21.14, doc wrote:
[snip]
>
> For what it is worth Mother Teresa was sometimes
> at odds with some of the folks in Rome, beginning
> with the earliest days of resisting the call to a
> girls school and insisting upon remaining in Calcutta,
> to other dust-ups.
>
> Because of her simple faithfulness and her priority
> for service over bureaucracy or tradition God did use
> her in notable ways around the world.
Just nitpicking: "the folks at Rome" should read, IIRC, "her superiors
at the religious order of nuns where she belonged." It was her
superiors who wanted her to be a teacher in a school for well-to-do
girls. But I cannot say this with absolute certainty; I might well be
wrong.
Blessings,
Eduardo
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Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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