A toy train ride to honour Mother Teresa

September 04, 2016 15:04

Even as the solemn canonisation ceremony was underway in faraway Rome, members of the Darjeeling branch of the Lay Missionaries of Charity today took an 8-km ride on the iconic Darjeeling toy train to retrace the trip Mother Teresa took on September 10, 1946.

"We wished to experience what Mother Teresa must have felt during that time of September 10, 1946 when she got the 'call within the call' during her trip from the plains (NJP-Siliguri) to Darjeeling and her life's course changed forever," Father Peter Lingdam, LMC's Darjeeling Branch Director said.

"Today's ride in the toy train is symbolic. Maybe some of us will also be enlightened like her," Father Lingdam said. On September 10, 1946, during her journey to Darjeeling in the toy train the Mother received the "call within the call" within her soul and the course of her life was decided, the Father said.

Lay Missionaries of Charity is an International Association of 'lay persons' (married and single) adhering to the Spirit of the Missionaries of Charity.

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