Mother Teresa Film 2022

[Jason]

Thatmeant it was time to put her back in the spotlight, said a panel of those who were promoting a new documentary about the life of this saint, known popularly as Mother Teresa, who founded the Missionaries of Charity.

Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly said at an Aug. 31 news conference hosted at Vatican Radio that the Knights made this film "to reach a new generation with the witness and example of Mother Teresa" and to inspire them.

"Thank you for promoting this type of initiative that helps, in a creative manner, to make accessible the zeal for evangelization, especially for the young generations promoting the desire to follow the Lord who loved us first," the pope said in an Aug. 25 letter written to Kelly, replying to news of the Vatican premiere.

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Ganxhe Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents in Skopje, now capital of North Macedonia, on Aug. 26, 1910. On Sept. 5, 1997, she died of cardiac arrest at the motherhouse of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India.

The documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmaker David Naglieri features archival footage and interviews with dozens of commentators who knew Mother Teresa personally. It was filmed on five continents, providing interviews with many Missionaries of Charity and offering on-the-ground images of their work following in Mother Teresa's footsteps, serving in what Cardinal Sen O'Malley of Boston called "the most hellish places" on Earth to "bring the light and the love and the mercy of God."

The cardinal was overcome with emotion at the news conference, recalling attending a talk Mother Teresa gave in the 1960s before her work was widely known and when he was still a young brother preparing for ordination as a priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

He said, "this was one of the most inspiring talks I ever heard in my life." He and the small number of people who had come to hear her speak, he said, "were all weeping after a while. We were aware that we were in the presence of holiness."

The documentary shows the work Mother Teresa inspired and, "when she was feeding the hungry or holding the hands of someone as they lay dying, she was treating them as she would the most important person in her life, Jesus Christ himself," Kelly said in a media release.

Phnom Penh. To close my Saturday evening I went to the Sorya Shopping Mall, that smart modern building just few meters at the south of the Central Market. The idea was to watch a movie. There was outside a music promotional concert and inside the mall plenty of fashion youth going up and down the escalators. I confess that there were not much attractive movies for me this time, but there was something out of common: the film of Mother Teresa.

It was a part of the so called Mother Teresa International Film Festival 2010, an activity organized by some Catholic organizations, especially from Calcutta. I was kindly invited to see the movie by the Cambodian Church Social Communication team (CSC.)

After watching the movie where you can appreciate the genesis of the figure of what means Mother Teresa of Calcutta, one of the CSC came with a camera to ask me some questions. He asked me what I think is the meaning of Mother Teresa for a society like Cambodia. I want to share the answer here:

The movie shows a great model of social commitment. A woman that being loyal to the prescriptions of her religion, opens her heart to the poor in the best practice of tolerance and simplicity. Then to me is very meaningful that this story of Mother Teresa is shown just in the heart of this mall, a castle of materialism and consume. Few people were inside watching the movie, while I could see more than 300 hundred young persons receiving the messages of the promotional concert, selling the idea to our young Cambodian generations that happiness is behind a cell phone, a motorbike, an expensive car, a sexy figure and a lot of money. Then, at the side of that spectacular concert of high volume music and shining lights, a poor mother on the ground with her child asking 100 riels for eat.

It is very meaningful of course. The symbol of it is a very deep one. Our Cambodian youth need to know models as her, as a Ghandi, as a Don Bosco, as a Gosinanda, those persons who were able to sacrifice themselves to give the hand to the needed.

Most meaningful is that the Sorya theater charged the CSC in order to show the movie, which entrance was free. Everything is money in this country, even to give an educative gift to our own children and youth. In what the Sorya theater will use the money they collected from CSC in order to show the movie of a sister that worked for the poor waiting nothing in exchange?

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