mother angelica on living in the moment quotes

Then at a general audience on March 30, a few days after she died, ETWN Rome bureau staffers asked Pope Francis to pray for Mother’s soul, and he pointed to the sky saying, “She’s in heaven.” When the Pope was flying to Cuba on February 12 of this year, he offered prayers for Mother Angelica, and he asked for her prayers in return.

Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict both praised her. This unusual woman was hated by many because she represented what they believed to be an outmoded type of Catholicism, and was loved by many others who came to think of her as a saint. Her death occasioned an outpouring of remembrances about her life, both from those who knew her personally, and from many of the millions who encountered her through the network she founded. Mother Angelica died on Easter, March 27, 2016, at the age of 92. Even if you don’t watch Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), you have probably heard about Mother Angelica, the feisty Italian-American cloistered nun from Canton, Ohio, who in 1981, at the age of 58, launched, quite improbably, what turned out to be a worldwide TV, radio, and print media network from a monastery in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama.

Mother angelica on living in the moment quotes