Canonisation of Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Today (Sunday 4 August 2016), Pope Francis has presided over the Mass which confirmed the canonisation of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.  I managed to catch some of the Mass of Canonisation over a rather dodgy internet connection and part of me wished I could have been in Rome.  Pope Francis' sermon provides a great deal of sound advice for our troubled and all too often self-centred world today - http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/09/04/full-text-popes-homily-at-mother-teresas-canonisation/.

Mother Teresa's live is an example to us all about how we should respond to those in poverty.  This diminutive Albanian sister took Our Blessed Lord's great commandments to love the Lord our God and to love our neighbour as ourselves literally and continues to challenge us to follow here great example.

Over recent days the secular and Catholic press has been filled with stories reflecting on St. Teresa of Calcutta's extraordinary life born out of love for God and her neighbour.  One quote attributed to her that has struck a particular cord with me is -

Yesterday is gone

Tomorrow has not yet come

We only have today

Let us begin.