Posted on 02/25/2015 4:30:29 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
Mother Angelica joins Marcus for the 4th Anniversary episode of the Journey Home Program. Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo, in 1923, in Canton, Ohio. In 1944, she joined the contemplative order of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. After a severe back injury, she told God that if she could walk after the surgery, she would build Him a monastery in the South. True to her word and God's goodness, the surgery was a success. The new Mother Angelica and five founding Sisters made the journey South. Our Lady of the Angels Monastery was solemnly consecrated on May 2, 1962. In 1980, a garage behind the monastery was converted into a television studio. The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) signed on August 15, 1981.
She is a Treasure!!
This might be a good story.
Why do I have to pay for this EWTN, on MY cable bill, when that channel is another one of those channels, I have no interest in watching????? I don’t watch any of the MSM, including CNN, PMSNBC, Foxtrot, AlwaysBeenCrazy, ColumbiaBullShine, NaturallyBeenCrazy, Blaze-nowembers, and local TV news, which broadcast from the local marian tv broadcasting station building, complete with the noon five minutes of dogmatic speech.
A Nun’s Story: From Bondage to Freedom in Christ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpT-VWl-KY
Wow, it only took 4 posts for someone to throw in an anti-Catholic stink bomb into a positive and perfectly innocent thread. Trolling is getting more efficient these days.
Catholic Ping!
Especially memorable is a searching comment she made .. paraphrased something like .... how is it Jesus meant it when He said this is my body...but not I am the door or I am the vine .... then she said I guess we will not know the answer until we die
Unfortunately it will be too late then
I am not a Catholic, but I was a bank regulator that examined the small community bank that made Mother Angelica the loan that allowed her to expand her studio very early on. I cannot recall all the details of the story the banker told, but I do remember the smile on his face as he told about Mother Angelica coming to see him and how the conversation went.
At first, he didn’t want to make the loan. But through Mother Angelica’s persistence and her ability to persuade, he agreed. Clearly, he had great respect and admiration for her. As far as I know, there was never ever a minute’s problem with the loan. Through her great faith and efforts, she has accomplished some amazing things.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning it ever shall be: world without end, amen.
God bless Mother Angelica, an American saint and leader.
If she's lost, Sister, I pity the rest of the world, myself included. I wish I had a fraction of the faith and courage and love for Christ that Mother Angelica has shown in her life! She doesn't just talk about it, she lives it! She proclaims it! She may be crippled now, but since her commitment, she has "walked the walk" and spread the Faith throughout the world: media otherwise used to transmit evil, impurity, and hatred of anything good.
She speaks the truths of the Catholic Faith. Discontented or fallen-away Catholics may not like what she has to say; haters of Catholicism probably despise her in the name of God, as they perceive Him. But God is the final judge. He is the Alpha and Omega. Not any of us!
If Catholics want to use Free Republic to spread their religion, they should be prepared for a response. In this instance I didn’t even make a comment, I merely posted a link to a video made by a former priest and a former nun, both of whom have been biblically saved.
Let’s be clear, I don’t care if Romanists post their stories and talk about their religion. I don’t care if they bash and sneer at the principles I love, namely “Sola Scriptura” (Scripture Alone); “Sola Gratia” (Grace Alone); “Sola Fide” (Faith Alone); “Solus Christus” (Christ Alone); and “Soli Deo Gloria” (To God Alone Be Glory). I don’t care if they bash Protestants/Evangelicals. I don’t even care if they bash me. I see all of that as fertile ground. They are God-given opportunities to spread some truth. We never know who is reading our words. Someone may come along a year from now and clink on the link I posted. I routinely receive messages from people thanking me for my comments.
Please don’t let the trolls keep you away. Just skip over their comments and pray for them.
And say the St. Michael prayer.
On April 20th, Mother Angelica celebrated her 90th birthday. For the past 11 years, she has suffered from the effects of a stroke and brain surgery and has been bed-ridden for the past 5 years.. This may not seem like a miracle but some doctors would say it comes pretty close. For her Sisters who take care of Mother, it is obvious that she has not refused the suffering but has embraced it. Mother has had a great deal of suffering and pain in her life, but it has never made her bitter or resentful. She knew God had a purpose for it and she has accepted it as a blessing.
Thank you for your continued prayers for Mother and for EWTN.
From The Sisters at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery on June 12, 2013
To my knowledge, nobody pays a penny for EWTN.
If she did say that, it’s unfortunate.
The difference between “body” and “door” is that Jesus did not relentlessly pound home the assertion that he was going to give himself to us as a “door” sacramentally. He did not associate the image of the “door” with the Passover or his death on the cross. There is no evidence that the generation immediately following understood the image of the “door” to be literally true, while there is copious evidence that those who were taught, personally, by the apostles understood the Eucharist to contain the body and blood of Jesus. The book of Revelation is structured around the fully-developed Catholic Mass.
The metaphor of the “door” is one among many passing uses of metaphor. The Eucharist was announced in John 6, instituted at the Last Supper (explicitly as a fulfillment of the Passover and a remembrance of the New Passover, the death of Jesus). It is laughable to attempt to reduce the Eucharist to just one-among-many purely verbal metaphors.
And still after the counsel in Jerusalem they said the Holy Spirit said not to eat blood. Interesting that.
He refereed to that "type"in John 6 ( on the way to the passover celebration in Jerusalem) and then again at the last passover..
A type Arthur ..the manna was a type..fulfilled in Christ
The book of Revelation is structured around the fully-developed Catholic Mass.
Really??? Actually only in Scott Hahns imagination...
Don’t confuse them with facts
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