Mother Teresa of Calcutta - Stella del mattino (C. Chieffo) performed by Maurizio "Poppy" Parodi

Arranged & played by Maurizio "Poppy" parodi

The true name of Mother Teresa of Calcutta was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, she was born in 1910 in Skopje in Macedonia (called Yugoslavia in the past), in a Catholic family native of Albania. When Teresa was 18 he joined the "Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of "Our Lady of Loreto", and she began her adventure as religious in Ireland. About a year later, feeling the call of Christ, she decided to leave for India.
Teresa took vows in 1931 only as "Maria Theresa of the Child Jesus". In India too, the young nun taught for more than two decades at a school in Calcutta, until the Lord called her "for the second time". Thus began, in that troubled Asian country, her extraordinary and inspiring adventure of the founding of the "Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity"..... the rest is history!

The composer of this beautiful song (music and lyrics) is Claudio Chieffo, he was one of the most talented and prolific italian Catholic songwriters. If you want to know more about him, you can have a look at http://www.claudiochieffo.com where, among other things, you can read the text of the song and download the MP3 for free.
See also on http://www.youtube.com/user/ChieffoCanzoni

The first time I heard this song (Morning Star) - a "Hail Mary" - I was tuned on Italian radio broadcasting "Radio Maria Italia" (when it still did not seemed flagrantly and inexplicably pro Berlusconi), at around 5:45 am, before the "Holy Rosary", and I was listening to a beautiful version of the song, performed "a cappella", by the same Claudio Chieffo and a female voice.

A few days ago, when I was listening to radio news, I heard again talking about Mother Teresa of Calcutta (already beatified in 2003) and about her likely future sanctification. After that I thought about that lovely creature and her sisters while, in the early morning, they start their life as usual, praying and making true Christian charity. So I imagined, even if with significant limitations of my fantasy, to see a new morning lightening the hard life of many suffering people, both in India and in other parts of the world. The same light comes directly from the Holy Mother of Christ.

Anyway, it's a pity that too often most of the missionaries operating in the world, bringing Christian charity and social work to help people, are victims of violence or of the absolute indifference of many people and governments.

I hope you enjoy this simple arrangement.

Translated by my daughter Giulia.

Maurizio "Poppy" Parodi - Genoa, Italy

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[Ardit1996]

Mother Teresa was Albanian.

Please people don't ignore this.