My Life for the Poor

  • Year 1985
  • Type Book
  • Genre spiritual memoir
  • Tradition Catholic
  • Original language English

For For readers who want her own account of her calling and work, pieced together from her words; not a critical biography.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
1 of 5 light

Her life, calling and work among the poor, told in her own words as gathered by two editors.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 0 of 5
  • Scriptural 1 of 5
  • Experiential 4 of 5
  • Sociological 4 of 5
  • Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A book that gathers into one volume what Mother Teresa said and wrote about her life, her work, her faith and the joy she found in it, edited by José Luis González-Balado and Janet N. Playfoot and published by Harper & Row in 1985 (about 110 pages); Ballantine issued a paperback in 1987. Arranged as a story of her life in her own words, it is catalogued by libraries as autobiography, under the Missionaries of Charity and work with the poor.

Catalog IDW.PW8NSG.4

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