Superhuman motive that transfigures the countenance of the poor. 

“The work of Mother Teresa shows the inexhaustible potential energies of good, the resources of the human heart, are unveiled. They are poured out and become operative when the leaven of personal sacrifice, as well as of courage, makes them, with God’s help spring up and sets them to work… The charitable undertaking becomes witness; a double witness of witness consists in the silent preaching, of not only the necessity but the possibility of resolving the problem. This is something to marvel at. A new element has emerged. It is the superhuman motive that transfigures the countenance of a poor hungry person, a sickly child, a person repulsive with leprosy, a formidable criminal and a feeble man on his deathbed into the mysterious countenance of Christ.”  

  Apostle of brotherhood and the messanger of peace.

“The person whom we are honouring today is just such a witness to this supreme value: man, the image of God, the member of Christ and the mirror of the one who gazes and discovers there himself, finds here a brother.     Humble Mother Teresa, in whom we like to see the thousands and thousands of people dedicated full-time to the personal service of the neediest, becomes an example and symbol of the discovery, in which lies the secret of the world’s peace…. And she who comes to us as Missionary of Charity is the apostle of brotherhood and the messenger of peace.”