The Letters Page #2

Synopsis: A drama that explores the life of Mother Teresa through letters she wrote to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor, Father Celeste van Exem over a nearly 50-year period.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): William Riead
Production: Freestyle Releasing
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IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
25
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
PG
Year:
2014
114 min
$1,053,288
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to help the poor."

What are you saying, Sister Teresa?

I don't know.

I love teaching. I love being a nun.

But I must do something.

Surely God must love the poor

outside these walls

as much as he loves

privileged girls inside the walls.

I believe you're going on a retreat

in the next few days.

Yes.

I will ask God What I am to do.

(horn blows)

(man on speakers, faint)

I think I'll take this one.

Tell-Tell Mother General not to worry.

Have a restful retreat, Sister Teresa.

God be with you.

Thank you. God bless you.

(engine hissing)

(horn blowing)

VAN EXEM:
It was on this train,

en route to Darjeeling,

that she had a life-changing moment.

She received What she took

as a message from God

to go serve the poorest of the poor

and live among them.

She referred to it

as the call Within a call-

to give up everything

and to follow him into the slums.

And she said she knew it was his will,

that she had to do it.

But it would have to be

the decision of the church.

MOTHER GENERAL:
What do you mean

you heard the voice of God?

I heard a voice on the train.

It was not audible,

but was very clear, direct.

It told me that I must leave

the solace of the convent

and give my life to serve the poor,

to live among the poor.

It was a command

that I must follow Christ into the slums

and serve him by sewing

the poorest of the poor.

You seem to have forgotten the vows

you took as a cloistered nun, Sister.

Among the vows was poverty, chastity

and obedience.

Yes, I know, Mother General.

But I also know it is his will,

and I have to follow him.

It is a call Within a call.

I would like to apply for exclaustration.

This way, I can remain in Loreto order

and continue to live by my vows.

What I'm asking is permission

to work outside the walls.

You know very well that cloistered nuns

cannot go outside the walls.

You are the principal of our school.

The girls depend on you and love you.

They don't even mind when you are strict.

So, What are you saying?

Are you asking for permission

to be released from your duties?

Are you asking for permission

to be released from your vows?

No, no. I Want to remain a nun.

But all I'm asking is to be allowed

to Work with the poor. That is all.

Mother General,

there are people starving

right outside our door.

I see them every day from my window.

It is-

It is terrible sight.

How can we ignore that'?

Where is all this suddenly coming from?

Well, it's not so sudden.

Before I became a nun,

I Wanted to be a missionary.

I Wanted to go out

and give the life of Christ

to people in the missionary countries.

At that time,

when I was a girl in Skopje, Yugoslavia,

I read there were missionaries

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