We Need Our Own Congregation

We're now a proper corporation
A 5-women federation
We need our own administration
We must have our own Congregation

We need a proper location
For medication and education
No mind-boggling legislation
What we need is our own Congregation

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With faith and determination
And a bit of imagination
We shall raise a foundation
On which to build our own Congregation

We seek not security
We seek not prosperity
We seek not authority
Our work our only priority

We seek not publicity
We shall seek not celebrity
We spread the love in our vicinity
We just aspire to be
The Missionaries of Charity

And each one of us shall take four vows
Written in fire that nothing can douse
Chastity (Chastity)
Poverty (Poverty)
Obedience (Obedience)
Wholehearted and free service to the poorest of the poor

To serve the poorest of the poor
We need our freedom and liberation
We can only be sure
When we have our own Congregation

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A Vatican evaluation
Is required for our formation
But the Lord has been our inspiration
He knows we need our own Congregation

We work in Calcutta City
With no water and no electricity
Things are not very pretty
But we do get by on generosity
And we do get high with the possibility
That someday soon we just might be
The Missionaries of Charity

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