Hyderabad sources have added that Father Sunder, principal of St Mary’s Degree College and the representatives from the Mother Teresa Home at Musheerabad will offer a special Mass at St Mary’s Church on Sunday and the Archdiocese of Hyderabad will celebrate the September 4 canonization of Mother Teresa at the Vatican with a Mass at all parishes and a diocesan celebration at St Mary’s Basilica.
Sources have stated that Pope Francis will declare Mother Teresa a saint in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican during the canonization Mass, where the Mass will start at 10.30am local time and that’s 9.30 am UK time, which is 2pm IST.
It is stated that during her life, Teresa was widely revered as a self-sacrificing force for good, despite ferocious criticism from prominent intellectuals including the British writer Christopher Hitchens and the Australian feminist academic Germaine Greer.
Monica Besra, whose healing was Mother Teresa's first miracle, will spend September 4th praying at her home in a Bengal village, where Monica, who was cured of a large stomach tumor miraculously, has told that it was due to the divine power of Mother Teresa whom she worships.
