Did Mother Teresa die poor

Answer 1

Roman Catholic AnswerBlessed Mother Teresa was rich in God's grace and mercy, and she was rich in her charity and love of all God's people.

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Mother Teresa was born into a family which lived a comfortable existence because of the hard work of her father. They were not wealthy, however. When he died suddenly (probably murdered) the family lost their support and became almost destitue.

Answer 2

Mother Teresa was never actually "poor" like those she served. She had a very full-filled life. But, when her father died when she was nine, her small family had to make ends meet. She, her mother, and her sister made clothes while her brother ran errands for the men downtown.

Answer 3

Not money wise, she was a Catholic sister and sister in the Catholic Church take the three vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience. They do this because these come from the evangelical counsels of Christ. So because Jesus was poor she live her life poor but in spirit she was rich because she helped the hungry, the ill, the poor, and the orphaned, and the dying.

Answer 4

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Mother Teresa was a really great communicator who brought in vast sums in donations for the work she reported being done in Calcutta. Of course this money did not belong to her personally, but she was at liberty to spend the donations on priorities determined by herself. Her major priority was the establishment and running of convents and missions for the propagation of the Catholic religion, including training nuns, brothers and priests, followed by her well-known work for the poor, but also for frequent international first-class air travel and, as her own health began to fail, medical treatment at renowned medical clinics in the United States, Europe, and India.

Susan Shields, who served the order in New York for a total of nine and a half years as Sister Virgin, says, "We spent a large part of each day writing thank you letters and processing cheques. Every night around 25 sisters had to spend many hours preparing receipts for donations. It was a conveyor belt process: some sisters typed, others made lists of the amounts, stuffed letters into envelopes, or sorted the cheques. Values were between $5 and $100,000. Donors often dropped their envelopes filled with money at the door. Before Christmas the flow of donations was often totally out of control. The postman brought sackfuls of letters - checks for $50000 were no rarity." Sister Virgin remembers that one year there was about $50 million in a New York bank account. $50 million in one year, in just one nation - there was no shortage of funds.

Such vast amounts of money had to be seen to be spent in the service of the poor, in order to keep the funds flowing in. The major activity centre for the order was Calcutta, India. Here, it is reported that the order provided only a few hundred beds for the dying destitute and only a relatively nominal number of meals for the homeless, compared with other, less well publicised charities working in the same area.

Answer 5

I believe she was a Nun, meaning she had no money whatsoever.

Roman Catholic AnswerYes, indeed, Mother Teresa was wealthy in all the things that really count, and that will serve for eternal life. She was wealthy in the love of God, and the love and grace from God. She was wealthy in the love of her neighbor, especially the least of these. She was wealthy in respect and admiration of people of all faiths, and especially from the people of India. Mother Teresa was probably one of the most wealthy people that I have ever known, the fact that she had no material money was one of the blessings that helped her achieve her great wealth, as the love of money is the root of all evil.

Answer 6

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As a nun, Mother Teresa had comitted to a vow of poverty and thus did not actually own possessions. However, the order she founded catered for all her needs and wants in life. When Mother Teresa died, she was surrounded in her bedroom by sophisticated and expensive cardiac equipment, which had been specially fitted for her in the order's Motherhouse.

Answer 7

Her family was not wealthy but was a comfortable middle class family. However, that changed when Mother Teresa was 8 years old and her father was murdered. From that point on the family was poor as her mother was barely able to support her children.

Answer 8

She did not come from a wealthy family but her father did do well enough in his businesses so the family could live quite comfortably. However, when he died, the family quickly became almost destitute.

Answer 9

While her parents were not wealthy, her father earned a good living in his various endeavors. The family lived a comfortable life until he died and the family became nearly destitute.

Answer 10

Yes, she was born into a wealthy family.