The Missionaries of Charity Expand

By the end of the decade, the sisters felt the need expand outside the boundaries of the Diocese of Calcutta, however Canon Law forbid the opening of new houses outside the diocese if the order was less then ten years old. So eager were the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity, that the archbishop gave in, and made an exception to the rule. In 1959, the order opened a house in Delhi, and were received with great enthusiasm. Even the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nerhu attended the inaugural ceremony of the opening of the children's home. 21

"The Sisters go out at night to work, to pick up people on the streets. They saw a young man there, late at night — lying in the street and they said, “You should not he here, you should be with your parents”, and he said, “When I go home my mother does not want me because I have long hair. Every time I went home she pushed me out.” By the time the Sisters came back he had overdosed himself and they had to take him to hospital. I could not help thinking it was quite possible that his mother was busy with the hunger of our people in India. Yet there was her own child hungry for her, hungry for love, hungry for her cal-c and she refused it. Bring love into your home. If you really love God begin by loving your child, your husband, your wife. The old people, where are they? They are in some institution. Why are they not with you? Where is the crippled child? in some institution. Why is that child not with you? That child, young mothers and fathers, is a gift of God."  22