Toy train ride to retrace Mother’s 1946 trip
Even as the solemn canonisation ceremony was underway in faraway Rome, members of the Darjeeling branch of the Lay Missionaries of Charity (LMC) on Sunday took an 8-km ride on the iconic Darjeeling toy train to retrace the trip Mother Teresa took on September 10, 1946.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-09-04 17:00 GMT
Darjeeling
“We wished to experience what Mother Teresa must have felt during that time of September 10, 1946 when she got the ‘call within’ 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.
“Sunday’s ride in the toy train is symbolic. Maybe some of us will also be enlightened like her,” Father Lingdam said. Lay Missionaries of Charity (LMC) is an International Association of ‘lay persons’ (married and single) adhering to the Spirit of the Missionaries of Charity.
Mother Teresa’s legacy remains strong in the hills of Darjeeling as apart from LMC chapters, branches of the MC (Missionaries of Charity) continue to work for the welfare of the poor, needy and homeless in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong sub-divisions.
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