Lesson 5: The missionary

To prepare herself to work with the _____________ , Mother Teresa took an
intensive medical _____________ with the American Medical Missionary Sisters in
_____________, India. Her first course of action in Kolkata was to _____________
children from the slums and start to teach them. Financial support and volunteers
came _____________ to give a hand to Mother Teresa in her work for
_____________. In 1950 her group, now called the Missionaries of Charity, received
_____________ status as a religious community. Members took the _____________
vows of poverty, chastity (purity), and _____________ , but they added a fourth
vow—to give free _____________ to the most poor.
The Missionaries of Charity received _____________ publicity, and Mother Teresa
used it to _____________ her work. In 1957 they began to work with lepers (those
suffering from leprosy, which is a terrible infectious disease). Gradually from one


school they _____________ to nine elementary schools in Kolkata. They also opened
a home for _____________ and abandoned children. Soon they were in more than
_____________ Indian cities. Mother Teresa also visited other _____________ such
as Sri Lanka, Australia, Tanzania, Venezuela and Italy to begin new foundations.
Mother Teresa's group _____________ to expand throughout the 1970s. They
opened new _____________ in places such as Amman, Jordan; London,
_____________ ; and New York. By 1979 Mother Teresa's groups had more than
_____________different operations in over twenty-five countries around the world,
with dozens more ventures to follow.