I just wanted to make a quick entry here to say that the posts will be infrequent over the next few weeks. Tim and I are in Calcutta (also called Kolkata) now and are taking a few weeks off of the writing travels to do some volunteer work until Tim has to leave at the beginning of October. We’re working with the charity that was founded by Mother Teresa, and it has already been a humbling experience. In the mornings we work at a place called Prem Dan, which is a long-term care home, and in the afternoons we work near Kaligat at the first and probably most widely-known house that this inspirational woman started, the Home for the Dying and the Destitute. So needless to say we’re seeing things we never have before but are so grateful to finally be able to serve some people directly. I’ll try to write a bit more about Calcutta sometime soon, but look forward to the blog picking back up with more regularity in October. Thanks, as always, for reading.
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Andrew Prinsen
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Sept. 13, 2007
Now I’m really envious of your opportunity to work with the Missionaries of Charity! Journalist, Georges Gorree, in his book, For the Love of God (1974), writes that as he walked with Mother Teresa among the lepers he “felt horror mixed with pity…an awareness that these dying and derelict men and women, these lepers with stumps instead of hands, these unwanted children…are dear. To soothe those battered old heads, to grasp those poor stumps, to take in one’s arms those children consigned to the dustbins, because it is His head, they are His stumps, and His children, of whom He said that whoever received one such child in His name received Him.” Your walk now, in Mother Teresa’s footsteps, is a walk with Angels.