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Helpful advice from a TV program broadcast 30 years ago.
Mother Angelica, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), the Register and CNA’s parent company, once offered helpful advice for Holy Week.
In a program broadcast in March 1994 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 Blessed 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 Jesus told her: “Go, and sin no more.”
“There is a condition for her to be forgiven,” Mother Angelica explained.
2. Remember that hell exists.
“You say, ‘Well, there’s a lot of theologians who say there’s no hell.‘ When you’re down there with this theologian, you’re gonna look at him and say, ‘You got me in here.’ Is that going to do you any good? Don’t pay attention to that rot. Better to be in heaven and look down and say: ‘I told you there was one; you wouldn’t listen,’” she added.
Mother Angelica then said that the Virgin Mary does not want her children to go to hell but rather that they be saved from it.
“Our Mother is trying to tell us: ‘You cannot defy God forever; you cannot murder children forever [through abortion]; you cannot teach great apostasies and lies forever; you cannot ruin your children forever. God sees you going toward that precipice, which is eternal, and he’ll grab us.’”
3. Forgive your enemy.
Continued below.
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Mother Angelica, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), the Register and CNA’s parent company, once offered helpful advice for Holy Week.
In a program broadcast in March 1994 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 Blessed 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 Jesus told her: “Go, and sin no more.”
“There is a condition for her to be forgiven,” Mother Angelica explained.
2. Remember that hell exists.
“You say, ‘Well, there’s a lot of theologians who say there’s no hell.‘ When you’re down there with this theologian, you’re gonna look at him and say, ‘You got me in here.’ Is that going to do you any good? Don’t pay attention to that rot. Better to be in heaven and look down and say: ‘I told you there was one; you wouldn’t listen,’” she added.
Mother Angelica then said that the Virgin Mary does not want her children to go to hell but rather that they be saved from it.
“Our Mother is trying to tell us: ‘You cannot defy God forever; you cannot murder children forever [through abortion]; you cannot teach great apostasies and lies forever; you cannot ruin your children forever. God sees you going toward that precipice, which is eternal, and he’ll grab us.’”
3. Forgive your enemy.
Continued below.
5 Suggestions From Mother Angelica for Holy Week
Helpful advice from a TV program broadcast 30 years ago.
