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Mother Teresa : Let's do something beautiful for God.
“What was it that made her so special?” Mother
Teresa, one of the most well known women of her time, exerted
fascination on most people she met. Admired for her work,
she was also a true contemplative. Along the years she received
a string of honorary doctorates conferred by some of the
world’s most prestigious universities. Mother Teresa
became, during her lifetime, the most decorated a woman
in the history of civilization.
She was without doubt, an outstanding human being. Many
pictures reveal her as both compassionate and determined;
there was work to be done and there seemed to be no room
for sentimental speculations. Her gentle but relentless
crusade for the poorest embodied a businesslike approach
witch filtered down through the ranks of her order. Many
books and thousands of articles have been written on her
and she was not without critics, some seeing her as a demagogue,
a servant of earthly powers. The order she founded is still
one the very few religious order within the Roman Catholic
Church demonstrating growth.
This leadergraphy looks at her leadership through different
aspects of her life, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual,
biological, etc. The founder and leader of the Missionaries
of Charity was more then just a leader, she was an integral
leader. She was not simply a Charismatic leader, a self-appointed
leader and could be classified in the traditional concepts
of charismatic leadership. This book shows that Mother Teresa’s
mission and leadership emerged from an integral growth process.
Her vocation and leadership, intimately linked to her integral
development, arose through a series of discontinuous awakening
experiences called epiphanies. These epiphanies have been,
among others, intense moments of suffering or spiritual
experiences that transformed Mother Teresa’s life.
They have let her to found a new religious order and lead
numerous people to the joy of giving.
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