in the company of saints

4 October 1981. Founder of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa, writes to the community at Our Lady’s Home, thanking them for their hospitality during her recent visit to Sydney: “My dear Sisters, my gratitude to each one of you for the love and care you have given to Sister and me is my prayer for you that you may grow in holiness through fidelity to your vocation by being only all for Jesus. Kindly pray for me. God bless you, M Teresa mc.” Mother Teresa is now known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. It is not the only saintly encounter Eileen O’Connor, Rev. Edward (Ted) McGrath msc or Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor will experience. During her short life, Eileen O’Connor was friends with Archbishop Alain de Boismenu msc, who was decreed venerable by the Catholic Church in 2014. In 1914, Eileen was presented with part of a war club reputedly used to martyr St Peter Chanel. Many years later, Father McGrath was presented to His Holiness, Pope Paul VI, who was beatified in 2014.