CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Women\u2019s rights activist Reggie Littlejohn is known for her fierce work fighting forced abortion and gendercide in China, often through grilling speeches given before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.<\/p>\nHowever, what is less-known about Littlejohn is that before becoming a successful lawyer and founder of the Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers organization, she spent six weeks working alongside a tiny, hunched-over woman in India who would become one of the greatest figures of our time.<\/p>\n
While on a yearlong break from Yale Law School, Littlejohn traveled the world alongside her husband, stopping to work with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, now referred to as Kolkata, for just over a month.<\/p>\n
It was during this time that Mother Teresa not only asked Littlejohn to be her \u2018Apostle of the Rosary\u2019 during their daily holy hour, handing rosaries to everyone that entered, but invited her to join the order.<\/p>\n
Although she couldn\u2019t join since she was already married, Littlejohn said she probably would have been willing to, thanks to Mother Teresa\u2019s humility, personal closeness to each individual, and selfless service to others.<\/p>\n
Mother Teresa \u201cwas a humble person, she did not consider herself to be any better than anyone else,\u201d Littlejohn told CNA.<\/p>\n
When people told Mother Teresa that she was a saint, she would reply \u201c\u2018no, I\u2019m just holy in my state in life, just the way that you\u2019re holy in your state of life,\u2019 assuming that we\u2019re all holy in our state in life,\u201d Littlejohn said, adding that \u201cI think most of us are not. But she had no sense of self-importance of all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Littlejohn, who grew up Catholic, said she wanted to me \u201ca missionary nun\u201d when she was a child, and consistently pestered her parents with the idea. However, she was eventually dissuaded by them and their parish priest, who told her the lifestyle was probably not for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess if I had been more determined or a true saint like Mother Teresa I would have gone on,\u201d she said, but instead gave up because \u201cI figured that if the priest said no, this is not the will of God.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, when she heard about Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity several years later and discovered that volunteers could meet and join them in their work, she was \u201cof course enthralled by the possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said her desire to work with Mother Teresa in slums stemmed from \u201ca powerful spiritual experience,\u201d since one can work with the poor and impoverished anywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy go to India, why work with a monastic community? It\u2019s because I felt that there was something spiritually powerful about them that I wanted to experience, and I think that I did experience it.\u201d<\/p>\n
This experience is something Littlejohn felt from the moment she and her husband showed up at the Missionaries of Charity doorstep, where they were not only \u201cwelcomed right in,\u201d but met Mother Teresa face-to-face the same day.<\/p>\n
Littlejohn said she and her husband were sitting in the hall waiting to get a list of suggested places to stay and work, when they heard \u201cthis little rustling and shuffling down the hall.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe looked down the hall and there was Mother Teresa herself, and she immediately came to both of us and she took our hands in her two hands,\u201d she said, recalling how the soon-to-be-saint\u2019s hands were \u201cbig, and soft and warm.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first words out of Mother Teresa\u2019s mouth were \u201cwelcome, welcome. Good. I\u2019m so glad you\u2019re here,\u2019\u201d Littlejohn recalled, noting that \u201cwe had just walked in off the street and here she is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the characteristics of Mother Teresa is that she regarded every human being as Jesus Christ right in front of her\u2026 (even) a baby that she found in a trash can\u2026when she was with you she was with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Mother Teresa was typically traveling to the various Missionaries of Charity houses all over the world, Littlejohn noted that the nun was in Calcutta for the entire six weeks she and her husband stayed, which was an \u201cunusual\u201d but welcome blessing.<\/p>\n
Speaking of Mother Teresa\u2019s generosity and attention to others, Littlejohn recounted how her parents came to visit while she was working there, and at one point asked to have a photo with the nun.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing the immature person I was, I had the audacity to knock on the door \u2013 it was really more of a doorframe with a curtain in it \u2013 during their time of rest\u201d and ask for the photo, she said.<\/p>\n
Instead of telling them to come back, Mother Teresa came out \u201cvery good natured\u201d and embraced her parents, consenting immediately to the photo.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was very cheerful, she stood there giving up her naptime to take a picture with some American whose parents were visiting Calcutta,\u201d Littlejohn said, adding that \u201cShe was so un-protective of her time, and this was her humility.\u201d<\/p>\n
Littlejohn also recounted how she received the role as \u2018Apostle of the Rosary\u2019 during her time with the Missionaries. During their stay, volunteers had the option of going to Mass with the sisters at 5:50 a.m., and joining them for Holy Hour and the rosary at 6:30 p.m. after the day\u2019s work.<\/p>\n
The first time she attended a holy hour, Littlejohn said she was late, and \u201csnuck in the back door\u201d so as not to disturb the others, or Mother Teresa, who was praying on the other side of the room.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went far away from her and was trying to creep in unnoticed,\u201d she said, but as she was kneeling and praying, \u201call of the sudden I felt this presence above me, and I looked up and there was Mother Teresa.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead of chastising Littlejohn for being late, Mother Teresa \u201cbent down and showed me which bead they were on, which is again her humility\u2026 (she) interrupted her own prayer to show me which bead we were on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Littlejohn said she decided to come to holy hour again the next day, and arrived on time. When she got there, Mother Teresa pulled her aside and said, \u201cI would like you to help me. Would you be my Apostle of the Rosary?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you say to that? I was floored that she even noticed me at all,\u201d Littlejohn said, explaining that she consented and was tasked with handing a rosary to each person as they walked into holy hour for the rest of her time there.<\/p>\n
In addition to her spiritual support, Mother Teresa was also a source of comfort and strength after Littlejohn had been assaulted by a man while waiting for the subway.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a long walkway in a tunnel to get to the subway and I was the only person in the tunnel with this guy, and he just turned around and grabbed me,\u201d Littlejohn said, explaining that she tried to punch the man and chase him down, but wasn\u2019t able to because she was wearing sandals.<\/p>\n
Upset about the incident and finding it hard to carry on with her work, she approached Mother Teresa later that evening. Littlejohn said she was fearful that Mother Teresa would chastise her and say she should have \u201cturned the other cheek,\u201d however, what she heard was the opposite.<\/p>\n
Mother Teresa, she said, told her it was a \u201cgrace from God\u201d that she tried to chase the man down, and applauded her effort to catch him. However, she also cautioned her that it\u2019s \u201cunwise to ever go out as a woman alone,\u201d which is why the Missionaries always go out two-by-two.<\/p>\n
After the conversation, Littlejohn said Mother Teresa took time to pray with her, and in the end she left feeling \u201cso elated, much more so than if it had never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the time she takes for one person, I mean who was I? I was nobody, I was a volunteer among many dozens of other volunteers who were there at that time, I was among thousands of volunteers who had been there over the decades and she took the time to listen to my story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Littlejohn then recalled how at one point during her stay, Mother Teresa actually invited her to join the Missionaries of Charity.<\/p>\n
The sisters had periodic spiritual retreats, and that there was always a certain time or talk that the volunteers could attend. One of the retreats, Littlejohn noted, was dedicated to the topic that \u201ceveryone on earth has a heavenly name\u201d that they will discover only when they get to heaven.<\/p>\n
As she was leaving the retreat alongside the stream of other volunteers, Littlejohn said Mother Teresa happened to be right outside the room, and walked straight up to her.<\/p>\n
Mother Teresa, she said, \u201ccame up to me and took my hand in her two hands and she said, \u2018Heart full of Love, you must take the sari,\u2019\u201d referring to a typical Indian garment worn by women.<\/p>\n
The habit for The Missionaries of Charity is a white sari with blue lines running along the edges, representing both purity and the Virgin Mary.
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\n\u201cI felt like she was calling me by my heavenly name,\u201d Littlejohn said, explaining that Mother Teresa\u2019s words \u201cyou must take the sari\u201d were a direct invitation to come live with the community for two weeks, to discern whether or not it might be her vocation.<\/p>\n
Littlejohn said she had wanted to say yes, but couldn\u2019t, since she was already married \u2013 a fact that shocked Mother Teresa, who \u201cin her purity\u201d never realized the man coming and going everywhere with Littlejohn was her husband, despite the fact they both wore their wedding rings.<\/p>\n
Mother Teresa then invited the couple to become Lay Missionaries of Charity, taking them to the small room the size of a restaurant booth that served as the administrative headquarters of the order.<\/p>\n
While Littlejohn was accustomed to spacious legal \u201cwar rooms\u201d stacked to the ceiling with documents, \u201cthere was none of that with Mother Teresa.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had one little rickety file cabinet\u201d from which she pulled the typewritten copy of the rules for the Lay Missionaries of Charity. It was the only copy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just looked at this document and I thought to myself, \u2018if I were an irresponsible person and just walked off with this without returning it to her, she would not have the rules of the Lay Missionaries of Charity, it would be gone,\u2019\u201d Littlejohn said, but noted that this is how Mother Teresa lived.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe lived such a life of faith that she just depended completely on God,\u201d for both the small things and the big.<\/p>\n
After going through the rules and discussing them together, Littlejohn and her husband came to the conclusion that being lay missionaries with the order, while beautiful, wasn\u2019t for them.<\/p>\n
However, even though they said no, \u201cI feel that my experience with Mother Teresa has had enormous influence on my life,\u201d Littlejohn said, adding that the order\u2019s ministry of picking up dying babies off the street \u201cis the spiritual inspiration\u201d of the Save a Girl Campaign her organization is promoting in China.<\/p>\n
The difference between the two is that while Mother Teresa and her sisters would shelter and care for dying or rejected babies, Littlejohn\u2019s organization encourages mothers to keep their daughters, giving them a monthly stipend to help with expenses.<\/p>\n
While her organization works to fight gender discrimination in China, Littlejohn said that it was in India that she first encountered female gendercide.<\/p>\n
While on a trip to India before working with the Missionaries of Charity, Littlejohn said she had been visiting Varanasi, and that as she was stepping from the shore of the Ganges River into a small motor boat for a ride, \u201cI look down and right beneath me was a fully formed, dead baby girl floating in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was aghast,\u201d she said, explaining that the baby \u201clooked absolutely perfect. It did not look like a child that had died from some kind of illness, this was a perfectly beautiful baby girl, and I\u2019ll never forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Working with Mother Teresa and her order prompted Littlejohn to both take another look at the faith of her childhood, and to look more closely to the needs of others.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that I learned with Mother Teresa (is) what your limits are; you learn what the limits to your holiness are, you learn to expand your limits,\u201d she said, explaining that at first she was afraid to touch people with diseases, for fear of contamination.<\/p>\n
However, \u201cas you continue working your compassion for the person grows, so you stop thinking so much about yourself and you start thinking more about them and what they\u2019re going through and wanting to somehow relieve their suffering,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She referred to the phrase \u201cI Thirst,\u201d which was inspired by Mother Teresa and is written on the wall beside a crucifix in every Missionaries of Charity house.<\/p>\n
\u201cLoving Jesus in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor, as she would call it, was satisfying his thirst for souls,\u201d she said, explaining that the phrase serves as an inspiration to her and her work.<\/p>\n
While her organization has a \u201cjustice-oriented mission,\u201d exposing forced abortion and sex-selective abortion in China, Littlejohn said \u201cthere\u2019s this whole mercy aspect of it, which is helping these women and baby girls, these women who do not want to abort,\u201d and offering a new, countercultural message that girls are just as good as boys.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s very in line with what Mother Teresa was doing, and she\u2019s a profound inspiration to me in the entire direction of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a letter she wrote to friends and family while in Calcutta, which was later published in the Yale Law Report, Littlejohn described Mother Teresa as \u201ca short woman in her mid-seventies, bent at mid-back as if in a permanent posture of prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHer face is lined with love, and her deeply crinkled eyes pour out compassion. She is in such a state of grace that when she takes your hand, smiles and says, \u2018God bless you,\u2019 she opens the inner chambers of your soul and leaves you ecstatic for hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
As someone born into an upper-class Albanian family, Mother Teresa is proof that \u201ceven those of us with privileged pasts can aspire to goodness,\u201d Littlejohn said, explaining that the nun \u201cseems blissfully unconcerned about her stature in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think she even thinks about how others view her. She just loves people, especially the poor, and caresses the hand of the leper with the same joy and respect with which she kisses the hand of the Pope or shakes the hand of a president.\u201d<\/p>\n
Littlejohn described Mother Teresa\u2019s presence in the convent as \u201cgentle,\u201d and said she kept \u201ca low profile.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe does not encourage hero worship, nor does she receive it. The nuns love her but are not preoccupied with her the way we Westerners are,\u201d she said, explaining that their attention was always on their prayer and on their work, \u201cas it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will leave the order strong once she is gone. For me, she is a brilliant example of someone who had the guts to give up an easy upper-class life to do God\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n
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