Mother Theres National Prayer Breakfast In Washington

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I chose to summarize the strengths of Mother Theresa’s speech in February 3, 1994. Mother Theresa delivered her speech during the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. Some members of her audience included: President Bill Clinton and other politicians, and religion leaders. Mother Theresa’s speech topic was against abortion. Mother Theresa begins her speech by thanking God for giving her and the audience the opportunity to be there and pray together, “We have come here especially to pray for peace, joy, and love” (207). Then she doesn’t waste any time to argue her speech subject, against abortion. She tells her audience the story of Jesus, “God gave His son to the Virgin Mary, and what did she do with Him? As soon as Jesus came into …show more content…

She conveys to them that the world is full of confusion and problems but the killing of innocent unborn babies is a problem that they can help stop, “We cannot solve the problems in the world, but let us never bring in the worst problem of all, to destroy love, to destroy life” (210). Then she starts to end her speech by asking the people present to look at their neighbor and if they need help to lend them a hand and to do it in God’s love, “I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there” (211). She is indicating to the audience how easy it is to begin to show and give love just as Jesus did, and it can start by taking a look to the people that live in their neighborhood. She continues to end her speech by talking about God and His love for us, and the equally rights an unborn baby has to live and to be loved, “a sign of care for the weakest of the weak- the unborn child- must go out to the world” (211). But she doesn’t end there, she makes the audience think and reflect one more time of their decision of supporting abortion when she communicates to them, “If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for”

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