“We wished to experience what Mother Teresa must have felt during that time of September 10, 1946 when she got the ‘call within the call’ during her trip from the plains (NJP-Siliguri) to Darjeeling and her life’s course changed forever,” said Father Peter Lingdam, LMC’s Darjeeling Branch Director. Born on August 26, 1910, as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu at Skopje in Macedonia, Mother Teresa, after arriving in Kolkata in 1929, had travelled to Darjeeling to join the Loreto novitiate. On September 10, 1946, during this journey to Darjeeling in the toy train, Mother received what she termed the “call within the call” that led to the formation of the Missionaries of Charity. “Mother Teresa was in Darjeeling for a number of years. Lay Missionaries of Charity is an international association of ‘lay persons’ (married and single) adhering to the spirit of Missionaries of Charity.

Source: Indian Express September 04, 2016 20:31 UTC