We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.

Besra has claimed that Sister Betta of the Missionaries of Charity is holding them. When I pick up a person from the street hungry I give him a plate of rice a piece of bread I have satisfied. Lay Catholics and non-Catholics were enrolled in the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa the Sick and Suffering Co-Workers and the Lay Missionaries of Charity.

In late 2003 Mother Teresa was beatified the third step toward possible sainthood giving her the title "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". Members of the order must adhere to the vows of chastity poverty and obedience and the fourth vow to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor". A second miracle credited to Mother Teresa is required before Mother Teresa can be recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church.