Life Style of Missionaries of Charity
- Deliberately and voluntarily choosing to live
a life of poverty and austerity
- choosing to be poor and simple. - Dressed in simple and modest cotton attire of a
three-striped blue bordered sari (worn in Bengali style),
simple footwear and a simple cloth
handbag, with no wrist watch, no
finger ring or other accessories. - Living as communities in convents, in simple
dwellings and common rooms, with no provision
of private rooms. - Going out in pairs, conveyancing in the
cheapest forms of transports, praying the
rosary while travelling. - Sustained from a common fund of the
Congregation, with no personal bank account
or property in one’s name, no personal money. - No partaking of any food or drink in the
houses of the poor the rich visited, providing food for oneself for the day’s journey. - No participation in social entertainments
such as theatres, parties, restaurants - Use of electric and electronic appliances only
for absolute necessity i.e. lawful requirements.