The first time I had the grace to meet Mother Teresa was in St Peter's Square. I asked her about her mission among the poorest of the poor. She replied in a few words from the Gospel: "Come and see". I could not resist the invitation to go to India to see her and her sisters in the field. Through the Maltese Sister Fredrick Douglas, her right hand whom I knew when she was a nun at St Joseph School, Sliema, I arranged to meet Mother Teresa in 1962. I met her in a small, dark room looking into the courtyard in her convent in Circular Road, Calcutta. I can still feel the imprint of this first meeting with a humble, simple and smiling Albanian nun. At the time, the well-known English writer Malcolm Muggeridge had made a film for the BBC and when he asked Mother Teresa what to call it, she replied "Something Beautiful for God". Mother and Sister Fredrick one day took me on a jeep, outside the crowded city, to their Home for Lepers. As soon as we arrived, a throng of lepers came rushing to welcome her, and here I envisaged Christ among lepers. Some moved along kneeling on a pair of skates, all shouting, "Mother, Mother we love you." I celebrated Mass in a chapel where there was a...
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