Nobel Lecture । Mother Teresa । Class Eleven English Second Semester

শিক্ষালয় ওয়েবসাইটের পক্ষ থেকে একাদশ শ্রেণির শিক্ষার্থীদের জন্য একাদশ শ্রেণি দ্বিতীয় সেমিস্টার ইংরাজি বিষয় থেকে Nobel Lecture । Mother Teresa । Class Eleven English Second Semester প্রদান করা হলো। শিক্ষার্থীরা এই Nobel Lecture । Mother Teresa । Class Eleven English Second Semester পাঠ করে নিম্নে প্রদান করা লিঙ্ক থেকে তাদের একাদশ শ্রেণি দ্বিতীয় সেমিস্টার ইংরাজি পরীক্ষার প্রস্তুতি গ্রহণ করতে পারবে।

শিক্ষালয় ওয়েবসাইটের সকল প্রকার আপডেট লাভ করতে মোবাইল স্ক্রিনের বা’দিকের নিম্নের অংশে থাকা বেল আইকনটিতে (🔔) টাচ করে শিক্ষালয় ওয়েবসাইটের নোটিফিকেশন অন করে রাখুন।

Nobel Lecture । Mother Teresa । Class Eleven English Second Semester :

As we have gathered here together to thank God for the Nobel Peace Prize l think it will be beautiful that we pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi which always surprises me very much-we pray this prayer every day after Holy Communion, because it is very fitting for each one of us, and I always wonder that 400–500 years ago as St. Francis of Assisi composed this prayer that they had the same difficulties that we have today, as we compose this prayer that fits very nicely for us also. I think some of you already have got it – so we will pray together.

Let us thank God for the opportunity that we all have together today, for this gift of peace that reminds us that we have been created to live that peace, and Jesus became man to bring that good news to the poor. He being God became man in all things like us except sin, and he proclaimed very clearly that he had come to give the good news.

The news was peace to all of good will and this is something that we all want–the peace of heart–and God loved the world so much that he gave his son- it was a giving —it is as much as if to say it hurt God to give, because he loved the world so much that he gave his son, and he gave him to Virgin Mary, and what did she do with him?

As soon as he came in her life-immediately she went in haste to give that good news, and as she came into the house of her cousin, the unborn child in the womb of Elizabeth leapt with joy. That little unborn child was the first messenger of peace.

He recognised the Prince of Peace, he recognised that Christ has come to bring the good news for you and for me.

And as if that was not enough-he died on the cross to show that greater love, and he died for you and for me and for that leper and for that man dying of hunger and that naked person lying in the street not only of Calcutta, but of Africa, and New York, and London, and Oslo-and insisted that we love one another as he loves each one of us.

And we read that in the Gospel very clearly-love as I have loved you-as I love you – as the Father has loved me, I love you—and the harder the Father loved him, he gave him to us, and how much we love one another, we, too, must give each other until it hurts.

It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you won’t love your neighbour.

How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live.

And so this is very important for us to realise that love, to be true, has to hurt. It hurt Jesus to love us, it hurt him.

And to make sure we remember his great love he made himself the bread of life to satisfy our hunger for his love. Our hunger for God, because we have been created for that love. We have been created in his image. We have been created to love and be loved, and then he has become man to make it possible for us to love as he loved us.

He makes himself the hungry one-the naked one, the homeless one-the sick one-the one in prison-the lonely one-the unwanted one and he says: You did it to me. Hungry for our love, and this is the hunger of our poor people. This is the hunger that you and I must find, it may be in our own home.

I never forget an opportunity I had in visiting a home where they had all these old parents of sons and
daughters who had just put them in an institution and forgotten maybe. And I went there, and I saw in that home they had everything, beautiful things, but everybody was looking towards the door.

And I did not see a single one with their smile on their face. And I turned to the Sister and I asked: How is that? How is it that the people they have everything here, why are they all looking towards the door, why are they not smiling?

I am so used to see the smile on our people, even the dying one smile, and she said: This is nearly every day, they are expecting, they are hoping that a son or daughter will come to visit them. They are hurt because they are forgotten, and see- this is where love comes.

That poverty comes right there in our own home, even neglect to love. Maybe in our own family we have somebody who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried, and these are difficult days for everybody. Are we there, are we there to receive them, is the mother there to receive the child?