ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 24, / pm (CNA).
Mother Angelica, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), CNA’s parent company, once offered helpful advice for Holy Week.
In a program broadcast in March before Easter, Mother Angelica offered five ways to be well prepared when the Easter Triduum begins. Her Holy Week recommendations continue to be wise and practical to this day:
1. Repent and change your life.
At the beginning of her reflections, Mother Angelica mentioned Marian apparitions and said that they all have in common the call to “repentance, a metanoia, a change of life.”
When the Virgin’s message is followed, the person must make you “a better Catholic, a better Christian, it must make you a better individual, make you more loving, more kind, more forgiving. It has to make you appreciate Jesus more and appreciate our Mother, your family more.”
“It has to make you more loving in your family and more compassionate. We are Christians!” she emphasized.
She then referred to the Bible and said: “This book is to be lived, not just read.”
Speaking about the mercy of God and the passage about the woman caught in adultery, the foundress of EWTN pointed out that
TOM PERNA
As many of you probably know by now, Mother Mary Angelica, the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) passed into eternal life yesterday afternoon around pm. It is fitting that Mother Angelica entered eternal life on the day Our Jesus Christ rose from the dead – Easter Sunday! I found out about her passing as I was sitting on the couch watching the New York Rangers hockey game and looking at Facebook on my iPhone. I knew she had been sick for many years, and although the news is sad, we can also rejoice to know that she is in the presence of Jesus Christ.
In the book, Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality, which I will draw from more shortly, Mother Angelica, says about “Your Place in Heaven” –
When we get to heaven, there will be many empty seats and many empty mansions, and they’ll stay that way forever because God has destined each of us for our specific degree of glory. My place in heaven is mine. No one else will ever use it or possess it or live in it. If I don&#;t get there, it will remain empty.”
Last night, after I arrived home from Easter brunch at my Mom’s with family and some new friends that my si
Mother Angelica is probably the most famous religious sister in America: she founded EWTN and her shows were a favorite of Catholic audiences for years.
And as anybody who watched her knows, she certainly had a way with words! Here are 18 of her best quotes.
[See also: 11 Quotes that Explode the “Spirit of Vatican II”]
[See also: 12 Quotes from the Master of Middle Earth, J.R.R. Tolkien]
And while you enjoy reading her quotes, remember to say a prayer for her. She’s 92 years old and living out her final years in a cloistered monastery in Alabama.
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The Quotable Mother Angelica
“Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous.”
“Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for the Lord to do.”
“I just want people to know that their God is a loving God.” — Mother Angelica on CBS’ 60 Minutes
“Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.”
“Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: saint.”
“Lord, the joy of your resurrection fills my soul with the realization that my body will also rise someday.”
“Joy is a sign of God’s presence in us.”
“Never lose sight of the fact that you are beloved of God.”
“You have all eternity to experience the presence of God, but you have a very short time to do something for him.”
“You must laugh your way to heaven because tears won’t get you there.”
“I love you, and God loves you more than you know.”
“Try to laugh a lot, because life is funny and everybody today is too serious. The only tragedy in the world, my friend, is sin
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