Mother Angelica and Evangelization

[sirach2v4]

EWTN is running old programs on TV and radio where Mother Angelica is quoted as saying: "The essence of evangelization is to tell people that Jesus loves them."

They repeat this quotation over and over, as if it really said something and meant something.

It just seems too trite and not very accurate. Evangelization is more like spreading the good news of Jesus Christ, teaching all “men” to observe what he has commanded. Jesus’s words spell out the mission of the Church and the obligation of all mankind. I don’t that can be reduced to a lesser essence. “Love God and love our neighbor” is shorter but more action-oriented than what she says.

( BTW, this word processor and spell checker always underlines evangelization as if I had misspelled it. Someone should fix this.)

 

[pianistclare]

She’s right. The Gospel message is all about love, mercy, compassion. Sinful behavior comes from an absence of such.
She was a wise woman. May we all be so moved.
May she rest in the local Ng arms of Jesus and His holy Mother.

 

[Neofight]

EWTN is running old programs on TV and radio where Mother Angelica is quoted as saying: "The essence of evangelization is to tell people that Jesus loves them."

They repeat this quotation over and over, as if it really said something and meant something.

It just seems too trite and not very accurate. Evangelization is more like spreading the good news of Jesus Christ, teaching all “men” to observe what he has commanded. Jesus’s words spell out the mission of the Church and the obligation of all mankind. I don’t that can be reduced to a lesser essence. “Love God and love our neighbor” is shorter but more action-oriented than what she says.

( BTW, this word processor and spell checker always underlines evangelization as if I had misspelled it. Someone should fix this.)

You had it right, when you said evangelization is like “spreading” the good news.

Like the parable Christ tells us of seed being spread, it’s capacity for spiritual yield is dependent on the soil, not the sower.

However, once we spread the seed of God’s truth, its up to those receiving it to nurture it.

Mother Angelica sowed the seeds, but another gift from God, that being free will, will determine if it is acted on.

Mother Angelica evangelized very, very well. Those who heard the word she shared would do well to act on it (“Let those who have ears, hear!”), and those of us who know the good news, should strive to live up to the example this beloved Holy woman did over her lifetime.

This is what we as disciples of Christ are called to do!

Peace and All Good!

 

[Jesus_123]

+Considering that Reverend Mother Angelica . . . foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) . . . .a simple Franciscan Poor Clare Nun of Perpetual Adoration in our wonderful Apostolic Holy Roman Catholic Church . . .and the mentor and guide of millions upon millions of God’s children’s souls . . and Deacon Bill Steltemeier . . . Chairman of the phenomenal EWTN’s Board of Governors . . . were honored by the. . . Vicar of Christ . . . our Holy Father in Rome . . . Pope Benedict XVI . . . with the extraordinary prestigious . . .

Pro Ecclesia Et Pontifice Award
The Cross of Honor
for**
“distinguished service to the Church and to the Pope”**

and may God’s sweetest and richest blessings be with them both in heaven above . . . their . . . holy annointed ministry’s . . . opinions carry great weight and authority in our Apostolic Holy Roman Catholic Church and are and should be greatly honored and treated with respect by all God’s beloved children . . .

On October 15, 2009 . . . the feast of . . . another eminent foundress, . . . St. Teresa of Avila . . . Reverend Mother Mary Angelica received a **second major honor from the **Holy See, this time for her long, faithful and devoted guidance of the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery and was appointed the prestigious and rare title of

**+ Abbess Emerita for Life + **

in a private ceremony within the Monastery at which **Mother Angelica **herself was able to be present in person . . .

The EWTN Global Catholic Network is in its 30 pkus years of service to our . . . ***Wonderful Lord Jesus ***. . . and is available in over 150 plus million television households in more than 140 plus countries and territories. With its direct broadcast satellite television and radio services, AM & FM radios networks, worldwide short-wave radio station, internet website www.ewtn.com and publishing arm, EWTN is the

**+ largest religious media network in the world + **

- Regina Angelorum
Newletter of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
Hanceville, Alabama

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As Christians . . . Catholics . . . pilgrim souls . . .** God’s** beloved children . . . who have ***Jesus ***as their FIRST LOVE . . . who to listen to . . . ? . . . what to trust . . . ? . . . who to believe . . . ? . . . *take a wild guess . . . *

We have truly been privileged to have living among us one whom . . . *in my humble opinion *. . . personifies the phrase . . . **"a saint living among us" **. . . and I believe it is only a matter of time before she is so designated by our Holy Mother Church . . .

. . . all for Jesus+​

 

[Irishmom2]

Jesus_123, I think you have summed it up beautifully!

 

[Don_Ruggero]

EWTN is running old programs on TV and radio where Mother Angelica is quoted as saying: "The essence of evangelization is to tell people that Jesus loves them."

They repeat this quotation over and over, as if it really said something and meant something.

It just seems too trite and not very accurate. Evangelization is more like spreading the good news of Jesus Christ, teaching all “men” to observe what he has commanded. Jesus’s words spell out the mission of the Church and the obligation of all mankind. I don’t that can be reduced to a lesser essence. “Love God and love our neighbor” is shorter but more action-oriented than what she says.

( BTW, this word processor and spell checker always underlines evangelization as if I had misspelled it. Someone should fix this.)

Mother Angelica was exactly correct in what she said, how she said it and in her emphasis. It assuredly says everything and means everything.

Jesus did not bring us Good News. He Himself is the Good News. As the Apostle John wrote:

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

 

[Don_Ruggero]

+Considering that Reverend Mother Angelica . . . foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) . . . .a simple Franciscan Poor Clare Nun of Perpetual Adoration in our wonderful Apostolic Holy Roman Catholic Church . . .and the mentor and guide of millions upon millions of God’s children’s souls . . and Deacon Bill Steltemeier . . . Chairman of the phenomenal EWTN’s Board of Governors . . . were honored by the. . . Vicar of Christ . . . our Holy Father in Rome . . . Pope Benedict XVI . . . with the extraordinary prestigious . . . and may God’s sweetest and richest blessings be with them both in heaven above . . . their . . . holy annointed ministry’s . . . opinions carry great weight and authority in our Apostolic Holy Roman Catholic Church and are and should be greatly honored and treated with respect by all God’s beloved children . . .

On October 15, 2009 . . . the feast of . . . another eminent foundress, . . . St. Teresa of Avila . . . Reverend Mother Mary Angelica received a **second major honor from the **Holy See, this time for her long, faithful and devoted guidance of the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery and was appointed the prestigious and rare title of in a private ceremony within the Monastery at which **Mother Angelica **herself was able to be present in person . . .

The EWTN Global Catholic Network is in its 30 pkus years of service to our . . . Wonderful Lord Jesus . . . and is available in over 150 plus million television households in more than 140 plus countries and territories. With its direct broadcast satellite television and radio services, AM & FM radios networks, worldwide short-wave radio station, internet website www.ewtn.com and publishing arm, EWTN is the

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- Regina Angelorum
Newletter of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
Hanceville, Alabama​

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As Christians . . . Catholics . . . pilgrim souls . . .** God’s** beloved children . . . who have ***Jesus ***as their FIRST LOVE . . . who to listen to . . . ? . . . what to trust . . . ? . . . who to believe . . . ? . . . *take a wild guess . . . *

We have truly been privileged to have living among us one whom . . . *in my humble opinion *. . . personifies the phrase . . . **"a saint living among us" **. . . and I believe it is only a matter of time before she is so designated by our Holy Mother Church . . .

. . . all for Jesus+​

Mother Angelica was, in every way, a truly remarkable and gifted Religious and an extraordinary person to interact with. Her accomplishments were extraordinary and she will forever be one of the great ones to emerge from the Church in the United States. As an abbess, she was very much in the mould of the greatest ones in Church history…Saint Hilda of Whitby, Saint Walburga, the abbesses of Helfta, and, of course, Saint Hildegard, abbess and Doctor of the Church.

 

[Katherine438]

I owe a lot to Mother Angelica … through the years she has helped bring me back to the Lord many times … God Bless Her.

 

[StudentMI]

As a convert, the intellectual side of the Church first attracted me. But what really convinced me was the idea of Love as the order of the universe. Love as the guiding principle. In my most scrupulous days, when I was confessing twice a week, when I tried to end my life, I was sitting in front of the Tabernacle and I felt (not heard) Jesus saying to me “do you really think I would let you die without a chance to repent?”

Mother Angelica is right. Even Pope Benedict spoke out against reducing everything to moral codes. It is about love. Without that love, that relationship, Christianity means absolutely nothing.