Our Foundress and our dearest Mother

St. Teresa of Calcutta, our Foundress and our Mother,

bless your own Missionaries of Charity family.

help us to do all the good we can.

Enable us to love and adore Jesus in the Bread of Life

as you loved and adored Him; to love and serve Jesus

in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor

as you loved and served Him.

St. Teresa of Calcutta, our dearest Mother and beloved Foundress,

filled with invincible love, profound humility, unshakeable faith 

and undaunted courage, you went in haste like our Blessed Mother

to give wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor.

Help us to go forth with greater zeal and fervour

to meet human needs, to bring help and above all

to bring Jesus to the poorest of the poor

and thus to satiate the infinite thirst of Jesus on the Cross

and in the Eucharist for love of souls.

Assist us, we pray, to proclaim the mighty works,

the Lord has accomplished in and through you,

so that the entire M.C. family may extol the greatness of the Lord

together with the poorest of the poor of the whole world.

Help us to give wholehearted free service

to the hungry, the thirsty,

those who lack the basic necessities of life,

those who live in despair and in the shadow of death,

the broken families, the little ones

and all those who seek God with a sincere heart.

St. Teresa of Calcutta, you never refused assistance to any one

who sought your help or implored your guidance.

Look upon your own children and beg of Jesus,

your beloved crucified Spouse, the pardon of all our sins,

particularly our sloth, tepidity, negligence, indifference, coldness,

pride and other sins committed against our vows

of Chastity, Poverty, Obedience and Charity.

Our beloved Foundress St. Teresa of Calcutta, you who ardently

desired and tirelessly worked to satiate

the infinite thirst of your Crucified Spouse,

help us to continue satiate the infinite thirst

of Jesus on the Cross and in the Eucharist for love and for souls,

with even greater thirst and ardent zeal and with complete dedication.

Obtain from Jesus the grace we need

to remain faithful to our M.C. vocation,

to serve the Lord freely, joyfully and wholeheartedly

through prayer, penance and works of mercy,

desiring nothing except to love Jesus in the poorest of the poor,

and make Him loved and served in them,

as He has never been loved and served in them before,

until we die of serving them in love as you have done.

Blessed be the holy and undivided Trinity. Amen.

Fr. Sebastian Vazhakala, M.C.