Mary Poplin 
Finding Calcutta [EPUB ebook] 
What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service

‘Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are. . . . You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.’ –Mother Teresa Lifelong educator Mary Poplin, after experiencing a newfound awakening to faith, sent a letter to Calcutta asking if she could visit Mother Teresa and volunteer with the Missionaries of Charity. She received a response saying, ‘You are welcome to share in our works of love for the poorest of the poor.’ So in the spring of 1996, Poplin spent two months in Calcutta as a volunteer. There she observed Mother Teresa's life of work and service to the poor, participating in the community's commitments to simplicity and mercy. Mother Teresa's unabashedly religious work stands in countercultural contrast to the limitations of our secular age.Poplin's journey gives us an inside glimpse into one of the most influential lives of the twentieth century and the lessons Mother Teresa continues to offer. Upon Poplin's return, she soon discovered that God was calling her to serve the university world with the same kind of holistic service with which Mother Teresa served Calcutta.Not everyone can go to Calcutta. But all of us can find our own meaningful work and service. Come and answer the call to find your Calcutta!

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Introduction: Telling the Truth About Mother Teresa
1. Getting There
2. A Day in the Life of a Missionary of Charity
3. A Pencil in God’s Hand
4. Whatever You Did for the Least of These, You Did for Me
5. The Church as Flawed and Finite
6. Do All Things Without Complaining or Disputing
7. It All Belongs to God
8. There Is Always Enough
9. The Vow of Poverty and Service to the Poor
10. The Vow of Obedience
11. The Vow of Chastity
12. Small Things with Great Love
13. Prayer Is Our First Work
14. The Missionaries and Miracles
15. If We Say We Have No Sin, the Truth Is Not in Us
16. Here God’s Grace More Abounds
17. Sometimes We Get Lost When We Look at Numbers
18. Don’t Give In to Discouragement
19. Mother Teresa’s Dark Night of the Spirit
20. The Humor of Mother Teresa
21. Spreading the Fragrance of Christ
22. It Matters Not, He Is Forgiven
23. Fighting Abortion with Adoption
24. Give Until It Hurts
25. Revolutionaries for Love
26. Mother Teresa and the Body of Christ
27. The Uniqueness of Christ
28. Leaving Calcutta
29. Finding Calcutta
30. My Thoughts Are Not Your Thoughts
Epilogue: Fall More in Love with Jesus Every Day

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Mary Poplin (Ph.D., University of Texas) is professor of education at Claremont Graduate University in California, where she has served as director of the teacher education program and dean of the School of Educational Studies. Poplin works on the application of the intellectual, social and psychological principles of the Judeo-Christian worldview as they apply to higher education, particularly among culturally and linguistically diverse peoples and the poor. She has been a presenter about Mother Teresa's influence and legacy at Veritas Forums across the country.