Kolkata: As a run up to Mother Teresa's beatification on October 19 in Rome, a city advertisement professional has sung and compiled 12 of her favourite hymns in an audio CD that pays tribute to her unflinching commitment to faith, hope and charity.

Titled the 'Angel of Love', the 12-song disc featuring Mother's all-time favourite Maiden's Prayer 'Ave Maria', would be released next week at a music store in Kolkata.

Hubert Robin Gomez, the 52-year-old ad professional of Portuguese origin profoundly influenced by Mother Teresa since his boyhood, had been thinking of 'small ways' to pay tribute to the Nun ever since her demise in 1997.

"As a child who lived very close to Mother's Creek Row residence and who went the same church in Entally as she did, I have been largely influenced by the ideals she epitomised," Gomez, who left today to attend the beatification on an invitation from the Vatican, told reporters.

Among the hymns included in the CD are St Francis' 'Make Me a Channel of Your Peace' which Mother adopted as the credo of her Missionaries of Charity, (MoC).

"Besides small narrations on 'faith', 'hope' and 'charity', the compilation has the traditional 'Rock of Ages', besides 'We shall Overcome' that Mother Teresa made the leprosy afflicted of Kolkata sing and 'Nesom Dorma' (None Must Sleep) in Italian," he said.

Gomez, who calls himself a self-taught singer and artist, has not only sung all the songs but also designed the cover and inlay card of the CD with his own paintings of the Mother.

PTI