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- Written by Ruth Outman, 2003. Permission is given
- Freely to copy, distribute and use.
- Some content materials were found in
- Statements or quotes directly from Mother Teresa
- Homepage www.MyAgape4u.com
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- Characters and props
- Day 1
- Day 1 continued
- Day 2
- Day 3
- Day 4
- Conclusion & Epilogue
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- 8 Main Characters + as many you want to populate area.
- Narrator
- Mother Teresa
- Sickly – person #1 (speaking parts)
- TB/Aids sickly – person #2 (speaking part)
- Freezing to death sickly – person #3 (speaking part)
- Starving to death sickly – person #4 (speaking part becomes helper #2)
- Socialite #1: well groomed and cultured (becomes helper #1)
- Socialite #2: well groomed and cultured.
- 2 Helpers: 1st helper (was indigent person #4)
- 2nd helper (was socialite
#1)
- Several half dead, mortally sick indigent people: no speaking parts just lay around on the floor. Some may
moan.
- Notes:
- The skit works best if the
Sickly Person #1 is put in a prominent position for most of the audience
to see. It is your choice at the end to have sickly person #1 float
away, be creative. TB/AIDS Person # 2 part works best when this person
is positioned very close to members of the audience. Freezing person # 3
works best scantly dressed. All
should have their faces/hands smudged up to look dirty. This skit is
great because most of the characters only one or two lines to remember,
and you can add to the atmosphere by using as many youth as possible to
be half dead indigent people lying around on the floor. When performed
appropriately this is a very powerful skit.
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- Narrator: Imagine these are the streets of Calcutta, India, cluttered
with bodies of hopeless, helpless people. We begin the skit with two
socialite pedestrians walking through the streets observing all these
people in great need. (Socialites
begin walking through the streets.)
- 1st Socialite: “Calcutta has become a place where the poorest of poor
reside. Just look at all these destitute unwanted people lying in our
streets. Kicks his foot toward an indigent person as if to get them out
of the way. It would take more than a Good Samaritan to clean up this
kind of mess.”
- 2nd Socialite: “There are such a vast number of people. It’s so
overwhelming. They are in such great need, and such a nuisance; spits
towards some helpless person who is reaching out for help. These people
always want something and are always in the way. There is just nothing
we can do about it.”
- [Socialite’s Character Note: Throughout the skit, the socialites will
keep an eye on Mother Teresa, and while not distracting from the rest of
the skit these two will occasionally mime comments back and forth to
each other until sickly person #1 finally lets Mother Teresa help him/her.]
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- Mother Teresa: (Enters the room after socialites walk away to the side
of the stage. She is unaware of them.) Raising her hands and pointing to
her feet. “Jesus, these are your hands, these are your feet, let me be
your vessel today. Thank you that I can love one person at a time. Give
me courage Lord to help these poorest of poor.” Stretches out her arms
as if introducing the vast amount of people.
- (Mother Teresa approaches 1st person moaning in pain.)
- 1st sickly person: moaning in pain “I don’t need your help, get away
from me.”
- (Mother Teresa moves away in a prayerful manner and goes to the 2nd
TB/Aids person #2.)
- 2nd sickly person: (coughs a lot, looks very weak) “Woman, you don’t
want to get near me I have tuberculosis and AIDS.”
- (Mother Teresa helps him up, nearly carries him to a make shift hospital
bed. Then resituates and comforts him and kisses him on the head.)
- 2nd Sickly Person: Clutching Mother Teresa by the arm, “Sister, you have
shown me such courage and love that I have never known before and surely
do not deserve, thank you.”
- Mother Teresa: “You are a child of God. He loves and so do I.” Exit the
room
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- Narrator: The Next Day.
- Mother Teresa: (walks in carrying
a blanket or coat.) “Jesus, these are your hands, these are your feet, raising
her hands and pointing to her feet, let me be your vessel today. Thank
you Jesus, for your gift of faith, which helps me help these – the
poorest of poor, one person at a time.
- (Mother Teresa approaches 1st sickly person again, as she did
yesterday.)
- 1st Sickly Person: meaner voice “I don’t need your help – get away from
me.”
- (Mother Teresa quietly moves away and moves on to 3rd Sickly Person.)
- 3rd Sickly Person: Scantly dressed, Curled up in a ball, shivering.
acting very cold, “I’m so cold. Oh, I’m so cold, so cold.
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- Mother Teresa approaches this person. She wraps the covering around
him.)
- 3rd Sickly Person: Reaches up toward her to grab hold of her hand. “Thank
you Sister, Thank you for covering my nakedness. I am not a Catholic or
even a Christian, yet you did this for me. You have shown me such
kindness that I have never seen before.
- (Mother Teresa nods and pats his hand. She exits and the 3rd person
looks comforted and satisfied.)
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- Narrator: The Next Day.
- Mother Teresa: (Walks in carrying a slice of bread and some water.) “Jesus,
these are your hands, these are you feet, raising hands and pointing to
feet. Let me be your vessel today. Thank you for the peace of knowing
that today I will help at least one person.
- (Mother Teresa goes back again to the 1st sickly person, this person is
growing weaker and more pain.)
- 1st Sickly Person: weaker “I don’t need you help get away from me.”
- (Mother Teresa moves prayerfully away and goes to 4th Sickly person.)
- 4th Sickly Person: Gnawing on
their hand and scratching at the ground, as if to be eating bugs. “Oh,
Oh, I am so hungry, I am so thirsty.
- (Mother Teresa approaches this person with bread and water.)
- 4th Sickly Person: Grabs and Clutches the food and water as Mother
Teresa is handing it to him/her. “Thank
you, Oh, Thank you, I am starving.”
- Mother Teresa: “Come with me and I will take you to a shelter where you
can get something to eat and drink everyday.”
- (Led away by Mother Teresa, out of site of the audience.)
- After Mother Teresa begins her next day the 4th sickly person, gets into
view so he/she can be seen watching Mother Teresa from a distance.)
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- Narrator: The Next Day.
- Mother Teresa: (Carrying a wash cloth with her,) “Jesus, these are your
hands, these are your feet, let me be your vessel today. Thank you for
giving me persistence, patience, and joy in helping even the most
difficult people no matter where they are in their spiritual journey.”
- (Mother Teresa approaches the 1st Sickly Person as she has previously
for several days. This person is quieter from days before. Mother Teresa
begins to clean the persons face and wounds. She prays him, asking Jesus
to bless the person.)
- 1st Sickly Person: “Thank you Sister, you have shown such diligence and
patience with me unlike I have ever seen before; I am ready to be with
our Lord.” Sickly person expires, floats away down the front of the
audience…(if you choose they may stay were they are.)
- (Mother Teresa continues to kneel and pray for the person as if they are
still there, until sick person #1 has left the room. She then gets up
looks around at the rest of the people lying all around her.)
- Mother Teresa: ‘Jesus you said that you would send me helpers. Have all
my helpers been aborted?
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- 1st Socialite (helper 1) and 4th sickly person (helper 2) now become
Mother Teresa’s helpers. At this time, the two helpers approach Mother
Teresa from separate locations yet meet her at the same time.
- Helper #1: “Sister, I see such joy and hope in you while you are helping
these people, may I help you? I would like to stay and work with you so
that I may come to know your joy.”
- Helper #2: “Sister, your courage and love for others are unlike any I
have ever seen. I want to stay and help you too.”
- Both helpers - #1 Sister we have seen such an inner peace about you,
- #2 where does this come from?
- Mother Teresa: Looking at both helpers, “ It comes from Jesus Christ who
lives in me, he gives me the faith and courage I need to walk down these
streets of Calcutta and the hope that these people will all be loved and
cared for, one person at a time. If you pray and seek after our Lord
Jesus, you will also enjoy the fruit of peace, joy, faith, hope, and
love that he wants for all of us.
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- Narrator: Reach out and ask God to grant you the gift of courage and
humility so you too can can be a servant to others in need. When a poor
person dies from hunger, it is not because God did not take care of him
or her. It is because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what
they needed.
- Mother Teresa steps out and addresses the audience:
- “ ‘For a sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty
ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith,
the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, and the fruit
of service is peace,’ A quote from Mother Teresa.”
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Notes
