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Mother Teresa
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Mother Teresa – Compassion in Action

June 22, 2020June 21, 2020 Vanessa Able

This essay by Mother Teresa crystallizes her vision of compassion in action, of how the fundamental love and benevolence between humans can override all social, racial and doctrinal divides.

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