Continuous commemoration for Mother Teresa’s 100th anniversary of birth

TIRANA, Sep. 6 – Following commemorations held in Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo, also all around the world, especially in India, activities to remember Mother Teresa’s devotion to the poor continues
The Albanian community in the borough was overflowing with pride as Albanian-born Mother Teresa was honored at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the United States on the anniversary of her 100th birthday.
A group of pilgrims took a chartered bus in the late afternoon from the only street named in her honor in the city, “Mother Teresa Way” at Lydig Avenue and Holland Avenue, for a ride to a mass at St. Patrick’s in honor of one of the world’s great humanitarians. The mass topped off what was a day of celebration in the borough’s Albanian community as it honored Mother Teresa. Councilman Jimmy Vacca sponsored a day of service in her honor and the bus that brought the group to St. Patrick’s.
Earlier in the day, Vacca was joined by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn as the trio shopped on Lydig Avenue for the poor. Food collected or purchased was donated to the Jewish Community Council of Pelham Parkway’s food pantry.
For those in the Albanian community making the trip to Manhattan, many said that they were grateful to the Archdiocese of New York for allowing the mass to be said in both Albanian and English.