My Dear Children: Mother Teresa's Last Message

Finding Love, Finding Joy Before entering the Jesuits, Hiroshi Katayanagi spent a year in Calcutta as a volunteer with Mother Teresa. During that time he took many candid photographs of her. These photos are complemented here by her own message of hope, excerpted from her letters, speeches, interviews, and diary. A tender tribute and a loving gift to all, My Dear Children― · includes some of Mother Teresa's favorite original prayers. · reveals her thoughts on the inability to pray, the lesson of poverty, the nature of love, and much more. · speaks of the importance of family for today's children. · provides a brief biography of Mother Teresa's life. · is a work of perfect encouragement for one's self or for others. †

Mother Teresa became known to the world for her selfless work with the "poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India. Born in 1910 in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia, Mother Teresa began her novitiate in India in 1928. Since its inception in 1950, her order, the Missionaries of Charity, has opened more than 500 centers around the world to help the dying and destitute. Mother Teresa was the recipient of many of the world’s most prestigious humanitarian awards, including the United States Medal of Freedom, the United Nations Albert Schweitzer prize and the Nobel Peace Prize.

Hiroshi Katayanagi, S.J., is a photographer and journalist living in Japan.