Honour Mother Teresa by Caring for the Unloved: Patil
President Pratibha Patil led the nation to pay tribute to Mother Teresa on her birth centenary and said there was an urgent need to attend to those sections the Nobel Peace Prize winning nun served -- the unloved and uncared in our families and societies.
Addressing a public meeting here to mark the centenary, Patil quoted Teresa’s words from her Nobel acceptance speech: “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
“With these words Mother Teresa drew attention to situations of hunger of the poor and the hunger for love, for often loneliness can be worse than physical hunger,”
Patil said.
The meeting, organised by the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) and other affiliated organisations, was attended by union ministers Pranab Mukherjee and Vayalar Ravi, Uttarakhand Governor Margaret Alva, diplomats, politicians and representatives of various religions.
Describing the Kolkata nun as the “noblest of our times”, Patil said: “She was truly the embodiment of the word Mother. It has been truly said that god cannot be everywhere and that is why he has created mother.” - IANS
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