belief in the sanctity of life

• • Furthermore, Mother Teresa’s work with the Missionaries of Charity reflected her commitment to the belief of the sanctity of life, particularly through the ethical care provided to the dying and destitute. 

  This belief is established in that because humans are believed to have been created in the ‘image and likeness’ of God (Genesis 1:26), there is an innate sense of dignity that needs to be protected and preserved.
• After the Significant Life Experience

  • The understanding of this belief becomes recontextualised, exemplified in Mother Teresa’s shifted adherence to service through the Missionaries of Charity. 
  • As such, in the 1979 Nobel Price Speech, Mother Teresa would asset how those she served - the distressing disguise of the poor - ‘need our respect…need that we treat them with dignity.’ 
  • Such respect was able to be instituted at the Missionaries of Charity, it encompassed her challenging entrenched notions of caste and gender rules that unalienated humans from society.  
• Mother Teresa’s work with the Missionaries of Charity reflected her commitment to the sanctity of life, particularly through the ethical care provided to the dying and destitute. "It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing," she said, reflecting the ethical expression of this belief.