Sisters of Mother Teresa hold thanksgiving ceremony

Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity also known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta congregation have organized a thanksgiving mass for the newly declared saint.

Saint Mother Theresa, who Pope Francis declared a saint on September 4, is the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, who started working in Uganda in 1988.

The Missionaries of Charity help the poor, needy and the neglected.

The thanksgiving mass held at Uganda Martyrs Shrine Namugongo was presided over by the Papal Nuncio to Uganda, Archbishop Michael August Blume, assisted by the parish-priest of Namugongo Martyrs' Shrine, Fr. Vincent Lubega.

Archbishop Blume called upon Christians always to go to pray at the tabernacle (place where the holy Eucharist is kept) because that is the television in the Catholic Church.

The mass was attended by disabled children, the elderly who are under the care of the missionaries of charity and several christians who went to pass through the Divine Mercy Door before the closure on Sunday.

One the nuns said that the thanksgiving ceremony was to express gratitude for declaring Mother Teresa a saint.

"The thanksgiving mass was in appreciation of mother Teresa our founder being declared a Saint," she said.

From the late 1980s through the 1990s, despite increasing health problems, Mother Teresa travelled across the world including in Uganda for the profession of novices, opening of new houses, and service to the poor and disaster-stricken. The congregation has over 4,000 members in almost 600 foundations in 123 countries of the world.

Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, to Albanian parents.