Missionaries of Charity

The Missionaries of Charity are a women's orders in the Roman Catholic Church, which was Mother Teresa ( Agnes Bojaxhiu Gonxhe ) with twelve sisters founded in Calcutta. As in all the Catholic orders, Members undertake to lead a life of poverty, celibacy and obedience according to the evangelical counsels.

History

The foundress Bojaxhiu joined with 18 years in the Irish branch of the Loreto Sisters. The sisters became involved at that time particularly in education in India. In 1928 she took her first job in Bengal and put in their profession in Calcutta. Until 1945, she worked there as a teacher and then started with the nursing and caring for the poor in Calcutta. After initial difficulties, the new congregation of pontifical right, Mother Teresa in 1950 was recognized by the Church. On February 1, 1965 issued by Pope Paul VI. the Order, the Decretum Laudis. The Order provides service to the poorest of the poor and is distributed almost all over the world. More than 4,500 nurses working in 133 countries, the Order maintains 710 houses. Below are homes for the dying, leprosy or AIDS patients, the homeless and children.

Admission into the Order

Candidates who want to enter the Order, must be between 18 and 35 years old. They go through a six-month pre- aspiration, then aspiration ( candidacy ), which also takes half a year. This is followed by a one-year postulate, after which the candidate novice. The novitiate lasts two years, followed by the passing of the simple vows, that is, the ( first time ) binding to the Order.

Superiors

The first religious superior was Mother Teresa. According to her sister Mary Nirmala Joshi led, many years assistant, from 1997 the Community. On 24 March 2009, Sister Mary Prema Pierick, a native German from Reken in Munsterland, elected to the new religious superior.