[by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.12]The Roman Catholic Church is making plans to honor Mother Teresa [00:04.63]during a special ceremony at the Vatican. [00:08.84]Mother Teresa was a religious worker. [00:12.44]She spent most of her working life helping the poor in Kolkata, India. [00:19.20]During her lifetime, she was given many awards, [00:22.85]including the Nobel Peace Prize. [00:26.08]She died in 1997. [00:30.40]On September 4th, Pope Francis will officially recognize Mother Teresa as a saint. [00:38.76]That means church leaders recognize her as a holy person [00:45.04]and believe she joined Jesus Christ in Heaven immediately after her death. [00:52.24]Many people believed Mother Teresa had an unlimited capacity [00:58.32]to give people unconditional love. [01:02.52]She once said there are two kinds of poverty [01:06.44]-- "the poverty of material, for example, in some places like India, [01:12.00]Ethiopia or some other places, where people are hungry for bread, real hunger. [01:19.76]But there is much deeper hunger, and that is hunger for love." [01:27.04]Mother Teresa was born Anjeza Gonxhe Bojaxhiu [01:31.52]on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. [01:38.26]She was the third child of Albanian parents. [01:43.64]When she was 18, she decided to become a nun -- a Catholic religious worker. [01:50.76]She joined a religious group as a student [01:55.12]and then became a teacher at a Roman Catholic school for girls [01:59.76]in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta. [02:04.08]Professor G?zim Alpion has studied the life of Mother Teresa and written about her. [02:13.56]He worked for many years to persuade the church to recognize her as a saint. [02:21.72]He says Mother Teresa left her teaching position to work among the poor in the slums of Kolkata. [02:30.76]She began a religious group she called Missionaries of Charity. [02:37.84]Alpion says "what Mother Teresa put in practice [02:42.64]was different from the European orders in Kolkata and India at that time. [02:49.46]She believed she could serve the people better by living like them, [02:55.08]in the poorest areas of Kolkata. [02:58.69]And she did this with that kind of integrity which is impossible not to admire," he says. [03:08.28]Mother Teresa had to fight hard with church officials [03:13.00]for permission to begin her humanitarian work. [03:18.44]Then she had to fight with officials in India [03:21.88]who were worried that she was trying to spread Christianity. [03:27.24]They soon understood that all she wanted to do [03:31.64]was live among the poor and help them. [03:35.80]G?zim Alpion says Mother Teresa's beliefs could be seen in her work. [03:43.68]"Yes, there are two sides of Mother Teresa, if you like [03:46.64]-- the religious aspect of her work, as well as the humanitarian aspect. [03:53.96]Both of them are linked together, and Mother Teresa had the ability [03:59.52]to express her philosophy of life, her theology, if you like, [04:03.92]through simple words but which have, if you like, a deep philosophical meaning." [04:10.92]Mother Teresa was given the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. [04:17.04]At the ceremony, she talked about the joy of spreading peace and loving one another. [04:24.28]She said there was joy in realizing that the poor are "our brothers and sisters." [04:32.68]Archbishop Engj?ll Masafra is an Albanian church leader. [04:38.12]"That a small woman physically, but in fact a great person, [04:45.88]who has been called the Mother of Humanity, of the World, [04:49.16]becomes a saint, it's a great honor, as well as an obligation for us Albanians, [04:54.76]that in spite of the religion they belong to, [04:57.48]like Mother Teresa to be as a model for the love of God and to help others." [05:05.56]The Missionaries of Charity -- the organization Mother Teresa launched with 20 nuns [05:12.68]-- now has 4,500 nuns who work in more than 130 countries. [05:20.32]I'm Christopher Jones-Cruise. [05:23.08]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM