From the u. S. Congress, white house events, the courts, campaigns and more from the world of politics all at your fingertips. You can stay current with the latest episode of washington general and five Schedule Information for cspan tv networks and cspan radio plus a variety of compelling podcasts. Cspan that is available at the apple store and google play. Download it for free today. Cspan now, your front row seat to washington anytime anywhere. Jim is with us today courtesy of mark and Daphne Murphy as well as carol and joe young. Jim towey became a trusted advisor and personal friendot of Mother Teresa of calcutta for 12 years, and did the First Reading after mass of canonization in st. Peters square. He headed the White House Office of faithbased and Community Initiatives under george w. Bush and served as president of two catholic colleges. Human Services Agency in, 1996 with Mother Teresas encouragement, he founded, the nonprofit Advocacy Organization aging with dignity and the five wishes, advanced directive, which has sold 40 million copies and is used in is sold 40 million copies in all states. The washington d. C. Continues to provide legalal services. Please give a warm welcome. [applause] thank you for the introduction. El in the cup in this area, welcome. I know my long time for a chip and working relationship george bush just kidding this book came about at the opportunity to meet Mother Teresa so im trying to repay the debt divided by cardinal in new york city to come to the gathering to do this radio show and television program. He sees different far as how long are you going to this Mother Teresa thing . [laughter] , to make their we are indebted to mother and voting royalties to charity and others aligned with her lifes work. [applause] marys not here today because she is in that position. Im just kidding. [laughter] i wrote thiser book on the 20th anniversary of her death for a number of reasons. A religious order form that was important and she was a saint so whos going to have it to write what she said and that was very helpful. Its a beautiful chapter never published not only the runup of the last 48 hours, there is sweetness to it and she prepared herself and others in that moment and to set the record straight, but critics, those who drove her on internet and says things that arent true, a definitive bottle but the most important thing for reason the book, a remarkable woman, cap except the way of turning them into plastic statues so someone levitated in church and sensational things superhuman different from the rest of us. A great woman and great mother tremendous courage and mother loved life, loved people. To mother it was the same thing, enthralled by her sisters, they were her daughters and i would drive her up to the church where the sisters were, and look and they were the only ones that vmattered. Very much a mother. Soso there you have it. That is the take away. She wrote poetry and loved to sing and she and her sisters thinge together and was well f, formal education, she had an appetite for reading so there is a collection of all the books she read. She spoke five languages and wasnt perfect, it does no good to remember her in a way that describes her in a manner that says she was perfect. She wasnt. She had imperfections and was sovereign. Those imperfections were necessary for woman who would need perseverance andnd convictn in overtime got perfected the imperfections and i watched her and i want to talk about that and what kind of courage that requires and she could get angry. She got angry at me. One time in mexico peace moment, all ofal these kids started rushing toward her i said i was going to protect her from these kids can get in the income and she glared at me. I didnt turn into a pillar of saltlt. [laughter] but she thought about the product that she apologized later and she availed herself and have things to say. She just didnt go in and just say. She understood all along she was a work inn progress, a lowly handmade and a sense. I said the most christlike person christ and ist said i thk Mother Teresa was the most merry like person since marion she was version and mother to a world that needed a mother. Her love and compassion, to appreciate mother, you have to place her in a Historical Context because she left her home at age 18 and said goodbye to her mother at a train station and never saw her mother again. She went to the sisters first by train and arrived in january 1929 in a couple of years of oration it survives and teaches it in calcutta, for some of the privilegedth kids and then pour then call you kids for 15 years history and geography and other subjects and india becomes involved in world war ii in 1939, declares war on indias behalf without consulting the indians and led to gandhi opposing this. A lot of the sisters left is the worst came closer to india and mother was there on the compound until a dish requisitioned it. The mother and one other sister stayed and they had studies where they slept. As the workbench in 1945, indiad was promised independence and this began to read the country particularly in northern india where mother lived. It was a queue at this time though during that period 1945 to 1946, the war ended august 45, those tensions are to go over to what was called the great day of killing august 1946. Picture mother at this time, she nearly died in 1942 fromhi exhaustion, teaching so much in doing this work and keeping things together for the girls and then go sooner does she recover, shes made principal and shes running everything. The war ends and now violence begins in the streets and a great day of killing, thousands dead in the street mother had to go outside to get food, dead bodies everywhere. Theres a woman could come to teach in india in the middle of this postwar battle for independence in 1946, some of the year in her life because of term attempt she finally slept not on even among to go on retreat and get a break so she gets on a a train and shes on e train and realizes god is calling her to leave the confines work with the force of the poor in the state to satiate first of christ for love and what she felt clearly communicated to her. 1947 comes and shes back from her retreat now sharing with the priest intimate details jesus telling herer what to do to be y light and go in the dark holes and love them and give them care. You can imagine transformed greatly, a real juul overrun by a series of dreadful development in 1942, 43 requisitioned so she has to do with the end came from villages scavenging for food and you have partitioning of india that led to violence and the displacement of 16 Million People in the area so that the whole area wrote with violence and she goes on retreat and shes on the train and jesus says now your work is about to begin. We had it easy until now. She comes back january 27 trying to understand and she knew what she was supposed to do but didnt know how to get there. What is a single solitary woman do this . Shes talking to a priest who doesnt suspect her of an inappropriate relationship with the priest as they have private conversations so they banish her 150 miles away so she goes through those six difficulty but she bears it. Im she recounted in letters intimate discussions jesus had with her about what was he was asking her to do and that is recounted in the book. All of this is a how remarkable a woman could then decide im going to go out is because god called me to into the streets and says this is going to take time and it did. Pestered with a bunch of letters and it led to approval and she gets approval from the nuns in ireland and the same month is assassinated. Mother never met auntie but i found it interesting there was convergence on the day of independence in 1947. In the same week mother got permission to go deal with the untouchables the same week she got permission gandhi was assassinated and felt like the passing of the m torch. Then get nurse training so she could deal with levers and others she would administer to and december 1948 she starts off in the sun. Think of the courage it w took shes going to ask old school girls she taught, doth you wanto join me . One by one they did so 1950 there were 12 of them in a one room space in calcutta where mother said im learning to want what he gives and not what i prefer, and assessment of her inner life, one job i did for as her lawyer was keep people from raising money in her name and prohibited fundraising is that she preferred the insecurity of divine province. Beautiful dependence on god for everything. I know youre probably wondering why she had a lawyer, president bush introduced, what kind of a world do we live in when she even had to have a lawyer . Mother likes to sue people. Im getting. [laughter] getting. It helped her with immigration and there is a chapter on what iran into women joined 26 women living in this cramped space on the third floor, 26 women and one bathroom, her first miracle. [laughter] they move in 1949 his house where they are too this day so look at the development through her life and you see, how is it possible for attracted 3800 women to follow her into the worst places in the world by the time of her death, she was 120 countries of the worst slums in the world. She had 700 homes, hundreds of men joined. How did i tell you that i was simply say mercy and kindness. At that time in my life, i was a disaffected catholic, i wasnt living by faith, i had licked the earth so i was comfortable in my office is the beauty about the history is its spot of everywhere so i was judging everybody but i was watching this woman said shes practicing the faith, living the gospel. Im not but she is. I want to meet her and he was sending the overseas thought ill go by india on the way back. But i didnt want to be around poor people. I have no interest so i thought heres what im going to do, im going to go to calcutta one day and on the way home to calcutta for five days and thats how i talked myself into doing it and what i did. I met mother, a tiny woman, this was the week she turned 75 she was everything i wasnt. Purposeful, intentional, and love with god, this was a woman in love with god. The tenderness of the relationshipbo even though chapr 11 talks about the darkness she experienced, she went through a period of darkness and never lost her faith had conviction of gods love for the poor and she said i was introduced to this because mother that day she said have you been to my home . I said no and she said go ask for sister lou. I have the rest of the day to kill so i said sure so i go walking in the driver out there stepping over people laying by the entrance like it never seen before in my life, the poverty and misery and i walked in and it was clean and there was peace, it wasas beautiful and i asked for sister lou and she says hi and i said i was with Mother Teresa this morning, i thought it was good to drop her name, i was with Mother Teresa. I said she told me to come here sisterer said heres some cotton and some solution, so clean that guy who has scabies and i like zero that 46 . Im like im here for the tour. [laughter] the last thing i wanted and thats why i feel comfortable talking to you today and my friends on cspan. [laughter] it was the mercy of god, there was one tiny bit of me that wanted to go back to that man but i realized as years went by when i touched that man, jesus touched me back. I want to stress a couple things about motherse life that i thik are important. One was how she aged. Mother stopped aging is a blessing, not a curse. She saw it as a momentum in her life drawing closer to god, going home to god. When mary was pregnant, who were living in tallahassee so he wanted her to bless the baby so we leave the two little ones behindon and mother comes out, mary, your pregnant. When do you do . Mary says due august 8 i think s,ill be early and mother say no, you will have that baby on my birthday and she said irt hoe not, her birthday is august 26 and shes 18 days late, my life will be a living pick. [laughter] long story short, she goes into labor and realizes the angels have worked and we are going to name her teresa. 1 20 a. M. , out comes a baby and the doctor says congrats, you have a little boy. [laughter] my wife goes are you sure . [laughter] he said yeah, here is how we know [laughter] heres how they train us. [laughter] while mary was in the hospital, mothers close friendnd got a cl suggesting we tried to get back there because mother was dying and shes in the hospital so with marys blessing i went and when we arrived at the airport, the sister said you need to go to the hospital because most mother is on oxygen so we are racing, can we get the four she dies . We get to the hospital 64 and go up to the area where the room is in this buzz of activity and please no, she didnt just die, did she . She said no, mother was laying there and pointed up and shes just looking up, what is she looking at . She just said im going home, im going home to god. Mother had that orientation should come from god and was going to god and she really believed god was with her. She said the greatest need of a person was to love and be loved and this was a greater than foo, shelter and clothing and she lived that. Great on her tombstone the gospel, love one another as i have loved you. Mother believed that. As simple as matthews gospel, whatever you do to the southern, you did it to me by the hand and opened janets hand, she was this tall woman and mother took her hand and said you did it to me. She called it the five finger gospel but felt it wasnt just beating us to man but the bread of a friendship for people feeling unloved. She was asked the worst disease shed seen, leprosy or aids . She said it was loneliness in the sense that people have rich and poor people feel unloved and unwanted, unneeded and mother spent her life in service and said a life not lived for others not worth living and she spent her Energy Living and support and loving life, truly human and a privilege to see the beauty of that humanity and allowed herself to be loved. I met her the week she turned 75 and some will say if by age 75 your best years are behind you, it wasnt true for mother at all. They were evangelical, a power because people watched her as she aged. This was a tough woman, five heart attacks, strokes, malaria dozens of times, broken arm, herbs and likes, you name it she with your, she was in a plane crash and survived, Mother Teresa had an interesting life encountered here but saw aging is a blessing and she knew she was getting closer to god. She knew if she was asked to suffer, should accept and she truly showed the beauty of humanity and i hope this gives reflection, and honors that remarkable woman who dominated and id be happy to answer any questions. [applause] dont be shy. Come up to the microphone and ask about my hairdresser if you have a question about that she was born the question was where was he born . s copay which is northern macedonia. An interesting childhood, fairy prosperous family. Her dad was a merchant, very successful. Also involved in the Movement Toward being independent and when she was ageso eight, her father was poisoned so she then her brothers Business Partner appropriated all of the assets in the family so she was cast into poverty and her mother had to work, she had two siblings so thats why when she felt a missionary it was a real sacrifice for her mother and right about that relationship in the book but mother to see her in the late 1960s and albania under a communist state in the country plopped down in the out so when the judge by her mother to see whether she honor the sacrifice by letting her go be a missionary interesting childhood and she played in the after she turned to charity, we arrived in the unitedit states who will dos anybody know where it was . Las vegas. [laughter] she spoke at theird convention, first public speech in 1960 so if you want to make a religious pilgrimage to vegas in honor of mother, your wife your calling. [laughter]on i was raised catholic and have broken my window the day of my birthday every year. Something caught my ear when you mentioned when i introduced you five wishes in colorado like touching your development that. Would be happy to. Thank you. And directive. I tell in the book after that became more involved with the sisters and ultimately one of the most important things was interference i for the 1980s it was spreading like wildfire people died precipitously so the poor had nowhere to go so i was shamed into it. I didnt want to do that by some these women doing and the sisters were doing it and i thought if they are doing it, i can do it so i lived there and i wrote five which is there and helps you plan that just medical needs, it is a legal document but also your personal spiritual emotional needs and howho you wt to be remembered and what you want your loved ones toce know u have a peaceful vision for your and came. Itri is in 30 languages. Im not doing a commercial for it but i love it. Ive wishes the and understand the wishes if you want to be a Good Daughter or son for your mom or dad when they need you the most, no wishes, as wishes because sometimes medicine doesnt know when to stop and one thing suicide and effort because you should have a better between pain and poison. We should manage pain better and i watched i created for the purpose of helping educate people about how they can have a beautiful death like mother described. A great presentation. The speechti she gave in washingtonsp which spoke of a culture of life purchase versus death which spoke with me. It was february of 1994, the first time she met the clintons. She met them backstage and talked afterwards, mother metm afterwards and i describe that in here, to, mother had access to leaders especially after the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 she had asked us to readers and my sisters to come serve the poor was able to get into cuba. They said we dont have any poor and she says you have told people to come and for them so very clever. Shed lived president reagan and right about that in the book and she could call from a pay phone so that story is in the show was involved in politics but tried not to be in it. Is there for jesus for the poor and she is great judgment but recognized her focus was to touch the floor. Mothern teresa spent a lot of time communicating witheo peopl. She has communicated with my jobrother john and they have personal letters back andto forh to each other. So many people ask. During the process after her death make someone a saint, to collect the most of life so i had to all of them written letters and i was one of 13 witnesses the back and put under oath and testified and because i dealt with the worldly affairs, talking about prayer fullness talk about how she dealt with government leaders so they collected this became of her own personal letter and that was part of the collection process, my guess is she is to stay up late at night, is the up every day at 4 40 a. M. And half calls by hand, no computers, simple, amazing my guess is a regular correspondent she had her sisters when in the organization i am guessing that hundreds of regular correspondence machine on the right a few lines at times so she was remarkable in penmanship and she used to sign her name god bless you, mother theresae. And send of each lettr and she tried to offer that john was lucky to have a letter from her, a number of them they. [laughter] i did. I made a fortune. [laughter] im not your publicist would like you to recommend two reasons. I talked to you and, you dont want politics but when i like you to recommend people your book is 110 and 111 and also read about opportunist people took advantage demonizing her in the interesting stories. You can be my publicist anytime. [laughter] Mother Teresa has always been one of my all time heroes so it is anhe honor you talk about yor expenses so thank you for coming but i have a question about your life. You said when your child was born if it was a girl, you are prepared to blame her theresa and it was a boy question is, what did you name your son . Was it terry or [laughter] we named him max and. And honor who died in world war ii is given up for a family man, they were going to execute people from the concentration camp and randomly picked a bunch of people and one was a father figure who said he had a wife and children to the priest stepped forward and said ill take his place. What is interesting when i got to the hospital room and showed her the bottle of baby maximilian, she relays and says i sat next to the man that day so i thought that was wild. Maybe our kids was a challenge and wanted to name one after john paul to but the problem would be without would be john paul to. We thought it was a bridge too far. Hell be at every cap john. [laughter] near the questions . [inaudible] cheerfulness. Cant talk about the cheerfulness of Mother Teresa . Sure. One of the characteristics of those who joined, total surroundings, loving trust in cheerfulness. Mother was serious about cheerfulness. I was o with one time giving a talk to young women about to take vows and they were sitting there, girls probably in the 20s, 30s, 20s and they are about to take their vows and mother was standing there and she said if you cant be cheerful with the poor, go home right now. Just like that, go home i remember she started to imitate a grumpy none and walked back and forth and they were laughing but they all got it. Theres nothing worse than a grumpy christian. [laughter] it is a contradiction, an the joy of thee gospel, there is a happy ending. Right . All right. [applause] do i ever asked myself, why me . I do. I feel like i won the lottery. One time i said to mother, i wish you read me my rights when i met you because it did change, i didnt see that in my five year plan in jacksonville but its been 37 years, i spend every day, time to pay back the debt, thank you, god for that because it is a privilege of a lifetime to meet a woman like that and the implications in ryyour life. She sent 35 sisters to our wedding but i met my wife, not your standard way to meet someone but well, we all have our stories how god touches us, love one another as he loves us and hopefully this book will encourage and inspire to reach out to people who are lonely and poor, spirit or materially and spread that love in a world that needs it at a time when we dont know whats true. Shooting down williams for their great issues facing the country and theres only one way i know of that can bring people togetherit and thats the love f god and love of neighbor. God bless you and thank you for coming today. [applause] if you enjoy tv, sign up for our newsletter using the qr code on the screen. To receive the schedule of author discussions, book festivals and more, book tv every sunday on cspan2 or anytime online at the tv to org. Television for serious readers. This weekend brings two days of book tv beginning with library of Congress National book festival Live Saturday 9 00 a. M. 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