Protestants: Do you watch EWTN?

[Allweather]

EWTN isn’t available on my television but we have EWTN radio in my community. I discovered it about two years ago and now listen to it during most of my drive time (about 40 minutes a day). It has led me to a new understanding and appreciation of Catholicism. I fear that in the near future I will have to cut my Baptist ties and enroll in RCIA.

Fear not, Zenas! I made the same journey 20 some years ago. The road got a little rocky here and there, but every day that goes by makes me more solidly convinced that, at least once in my life, I chose the right path.

BTW we don’t have EWTN in my locale on broadcast TV, but can get it through cable and satellite. You can also get quite a lot of it via the EWTN website.

 

[Mannyfit75]

EWTN isn’t available on my television but we have EWTN radio in my community. I discovered it about two years ago and now listen to it during most of my drive time (about 40 minutes a day). It has led me to a new understanding and appreciation of Catholicism. I fear that in the near future I will have to cut my Baptist ties and enroll in RCIA.

Pope John Paul II said, “Be not afraid. Little flock.”

 

[Abira]

i came accross it while i was trying to learn the rosary and wasnt sure… online…

S

 

[LilyM]

If I could get it here at home, I would probably watch it quite a bit…but I have neither cable nor a dish, so no go…
But, in 2004, I was in hospital for a week, when I had open heart surgery. EWTN was fantastic! I cannot abide TBN…and other TV was just dreadful to even think about. (T^hey didn’t carry anything worth watching, IMO, on the hospital TVs).
EWTN had great programming, any hour of the day or night that I was awake. I liked: most of Johnette Benkovic; Franciscan Hour; another interview type show whose name I cannot remember, but anyhow, that was the format that I really enjoyed & was inspired by. Good solid Christian entertainment, sserious discussions…If I could afford cable (much less the level of cable around here that you have to get, to get EWTN), I would be watching those & probably others, still…
You know what’s funny though? I pray the rosary every day, and the one thing I didn’t like was with the nuns reciting the rosary. I know, intellectually, that they were really actually praying it, but it sounded, I dunno…dreary. Depressed even. (Mind you, I was full of pain meds. I may be remebering part truth & part illusion. But one thing out of the whole day that you don’t like? That’s amazing!!!)

I actually agree with you on the Rosary, the nuns do it very slow and a little sombre. The masses, lovely and reverent as they are, are a little like that too.

I prefer the scriptural rosaries that I’ve found recordings of - one is an EWTN one, but they never show it on tv so it may be just an audio version. And the Chaplet of Divine Mercy (the version that isn’t chanted but sung) is beautiful.

 

[Anthony02]

1. By watching the Daily Mass I realized that Catholics don’t really worship Mary, Saints, and statues like I was led to believe.
   While I had been interested in Catholicism for some time, the beauty of the Mass on EWTN really led me to study it further, and I have since come to reject my Baptist upbringings of sola scriptura and sola fide, and have accepted in fullness everything taught by the Church. I had never been to Mass before and after seeing the beauty of the EWTN Mass I decided to go to Sunday Mass at one of my local parishes about a month ago. I was very impressed to say the least, and while I have had a few stumbling blocks on the way (such as considering Orthodoxy), I can say with assurance that I will be attending RCIA in September. I can say that EWTN has helped me immensly on the path home.

2.  Life is Worth Living with Fulton Sheen. (My favorite)
     The Journey Home
     Catholic Church Through the Ages
     Rome Reports
     Anything w/ Mother Angelica
     Fr. Corapi
     And of course the Daily Mass

3. I learned a few things from watching EWTN such as my first sentence in answer #1, but in reality watching it led me to check out apologetic sites and forums like this, where I really began to learn what the Church really taught and why. So I can guess you can say it itched that nerve to learn more.
4. More Fulton Sheen (I know there is only a limited number of episodes they can show, so I’m just kidding). I wish they showed Mass from different places from around the world that are know for their beautiful Masses. Maybe a TLM from St. Mary Mother of God in DC, Mass from the Vatican, maybe something from Notre Dame, etc. so we could get a broader sense of what Mass is like around the world and see some of the famous Cathedrals in the process.

Yeah! Congratualtions and God Bless on your journey home. I will keep you in my prayers.

 

[Brian_C]

I dunno if I learn all that much. There was a sweet elderly couple that had a show about saints that I liked.

Bob and Penny Lord!