Celebrating the feast day of St. Teresa of Calcutta!

Many of you parents probably remember her as "Mother Teresa" as she is one of the Church's newest saints and lived during your lifetime! Did you know that every canonized saint has a designated feast day? Mother Teresa's feast date was chosen because it was the day she died (1997) and entered her eternal reward.

During her earthly ministry, she founded a new religious community, the Missionaries of Charity, that has become a worldwide organization with more than 4,000 sisters in over 130 countries, not to mention priests, brothers and lay people who belong to the Missionaries of Charity family. We have some of Mother Teresa's sisters serving here in St. Louis!

Perhaps today would be a great day to talk about the needs of the poor and how each person in your family could serve the poor. St. Teresa's memorable line, counted on five fingers, "You - did - it - to  - me" (Matthew 25), helps her sisters and all of us to reflect on Christ's command to serve others.