Mark Gabriel C.

Domingo 9-Peace
The Life Story of Mother Teresa

I. Setting:
A. Loreto Convent Entally: The Loreto Convent Entally is where the rich Indian girls study,
separated from the poor by a wall. This was the place were Mother Teresa was teaching
geography to the Indian Girls.
B. Motijheel Slum: This is where the poorest of the poor live. The people here are neglected
because they are filthy, smell bad, and most of them are sickly. This is where Mother Teresa
started her mission to help the poor.
C. Calcutta, India: This is where the Loreto Convent Entally is situated. During Mother
Teresa’s time, Calcutta was in the middle of the misunderstanding between Hindus and
Muslims.
D. Train: This was where Mother Teresa saw the classification of the rich and the poor
people. The rich were in the first-class cabin with a clean area and are served with food while
the poor are in the third-class cabin with a dirty area and all of them are compacted.
E. Nirmal Hriday (Mother Teresa’s Calcutta Hospice): This was where Mother Teresa’s team
moved to have a bigger and much more complete materials and tools to help and serve the
poor.
II. Characters
Mother Teresa - Mother Teresa was the one who saw the opportunity to help and care for the
sick, poor, and dying.
Father Van Exem - He was the father who helped and supported Mother Teresa’s mission.
Archbishop - The one who sent a letter and allowed Mother Teresa to go out and work with
the poor people for 1 year.
Police Chief - He was the one who was governing Motijheel and the one who allowed Mother
Teresa to move to a bigger building to help the sick.

III. Conflict:
1.) Misunderstanding between Hindus and Muslims
2.) The sisters in the Loreto Convent were not allowed to work outside.
3.) The people of India are being separated by their wealth, the rich and the poor.
IV. Challenges
A. When the school needed food for the Indian students of their convent, Mother Teresa was
tasked to go out and search for food.
B. Mother Teresa needed to ask permission to go out of the convent and work because the
cloistered nuns were not allowed to go outside, or else she would become a lay person.
C. Mother Teresa needed to face the people of Motijheel Slum because some of them hated
her coming to their place. They thought that she was converting the children into Roman
Catholics.
D. Mother Teresa needed to convince the police chief that their team need to move to the
building near the Muslim church because it has water and electricity, unlike the place they
were staying at which is in Motijheel Slum.
E. Mother Teresa needed to settle the problem that she has with the Muslims because they
believe that because she was a Catholic nun, she should not be around the Muslim temples.
V. Human as Relational and Loving
In the movie it shows us that a human person is relational and loving because when Mother
Teresa saw the poor people, she felt the need to help them. Mother Teresa taught the children in
the slums so that they may live a happy life. She built a small center to help the dying and treat
them. Mother Teresa shows that a human person is loving because she felt love for the poor.
She showed that a human is relational because she can relate to the poor. What the poor people
feel, she feels to. That’s why she can understand them which means that she has a connection to
them.

VI. Quotation
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
-Just like what Mother Teresa did, she did not judge the poor. She just helped them
regardless of their physical attributes. She assessed what they needed and just fulfilled her
mission which was serving the poor.
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
-When Mother Teresa approached the police chief, he said that she cannot help all of the
people there. She answered that although she cannot feed a hundred people, she can start with
just one, then two, then, three until all of them were fed. What this means is that nothing starts
big. Everything starts small then you could build it up little by little.
“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
-When Mother Teresa helped the poor, she did not have too much to give. She only gave
them love, support and care to the poor. Although what she gave was not many, she gave it with
passion. Her giving was out of love and not out of force.