Mother Teresa Museum ribbon cutting ceremony: Thomas & Selby Prince, Craig & Pat Jilk, Michael Timmis, Sisters of Missionaries of Charity, President Jim Towey, Jennifer Nodes, Thomas Monaghan, Rhodora Donahue
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other Teresa of Calcutta went home to God over 20 years ago. Her thousands of Missionaries of Charity sisters, brothers and priests (MC’s) continue her work among the poorest of the poor throughout the world. But outside of her religious order, who is honoring her legacy and creating new generations of devotees of this great saint? It should come as no surprise that a small, humble and hidden Catholic college – Ave Maria University – is leading
the way. This year the Mother Teresa Museum was officially opened with an impressive ceremony presided over by President Jim Towey, a friend who provided legal counsel to St. Teresa of Calcutta during the last 12 years of her life. The ribbon-cutting ceremony concluded the last of the major dedications in the new Thomas and Selby Prince Building. In attendance were Rhodora Donahue and other members of her family, the Princes, and Bernadette O’Bryan Luca—whose names are commemorated in the spacious
new building. “No one in the Church is promoting devotion to Mother Teresa like Ave Maria University,” Towey said at the dedication. “Sister Prema’s official permission in 2013 to undertake this project, the incredible generosity of AMU trustee Tricia Flatley and her family and Pat and Craid Jilk, along with the creativity of Jennifer Nodes, the Museum’s curator and head of library services, made this simple but stately Museum possible.” Following Towey’s remarks, Sr. Ajaya, Superior of
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