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  1. Improve rosary programs, specifically so that all words are audible.
  2. Improve rosary programs so that they are updated at least every couple years or so.
  3. Distribute prayer cards at nominal cost so that people can follow along with prayers and songs – I can seldom understand what they are praying or singing.
 
I like no. 3, if more people learned to follow along the Latin Mass in this way we would get more demand for it in the parishes. They should also distribute missals or worship aids to the people in the pews most of whom don’t seem to know the prayers, songs or resonses.
 
Want to improve EWTN? Here’s how:
  1. Keep your contribution to EWTN between your gas and electric bill. Encourage others to do likewise.
  2. If EWTN isn’t on all the cable systems in your city, lobby to get EWTN on the system to as wide an audience as possible.
  3. Publicise what EWTN is doing in terms of shows that are interesting and relevant to those in your congregation.
Remember that a lot of what you want costs money – lots of it – from what I’ve seen EWTN is doing a fine job in offering innovative programming given their limited resources. Imagine what they could do with more resources.
 
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puzzleannie:
I like no. 3, if more people learned to follow along the Latin Mass in this way we would get more demand for it in the parishes. They should also distribute missals or worship aids to the people in the pews most of whom don’t seem to know the prayers, songs or resonses.
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I just wanted to share that I found a really good series to learn
Christian Latin. It is the “Classical Trivium Core Series”. It is
for school-age children, but that’s ok with me! I want to learn
Latin so I can understand the beautiful hymns, but I don’t
want to be overwhelmed with a college-level text book. I
found this in a Catholic homeschool section at a local
Catholic bookstore. memoriapress.com/descriptions/index_latin.htm

Sorry to go off topic on this EWTN posting, but I wanted
to respond to the point raised about learning Latin to understand more of certain programming on EWTN.

God Bless!
 
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puzzleannie:
I like no. 3, if more people learned to follow along the Latin Mass in this way we would get more demand for it in the parishes. They should also distribute missals or worship aids to the people in the pews most of whom don’t seem to know the prayers, songs or resonses.
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Maybe expanding on this. Having a show dedicated to teaching the prayers and responses in Latin. This would help not only those of us in the Church, but also people considering entering the Church.
 
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Walking_Home:
Maybe expanding on this. Having a show dedicated to teaching the prayers and responses in Latin. This would help not only those of us in the Church, but also people considering entering the Church.
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Now that is something that I would watch every night! 🙂
 
I think the chapel needs serious improvements: it’s quite banal and uninspiring on the inside.
 
There are three ways to improve EWTN. Donate, Donate, and Donate!

EWTN does a magnificent job with their finances, managing to offer relevant television to all age groups ( and I’m 24). God Bless & keep it up!
 
Teach basics of the Catholic faith for those that have forgotten or confused. 😉
 
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AnnaRose:
Teach basics of the Catholic faith for those that have forgotten or confused. 😉
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They do that admirably – both on their website and in their radio/tv ministries. with more in the way of contributions, they could do even more. Heaven knows, in my conversion process, a continuing dialogue with the people in their Q&A was very important, watching shows on liturgy and doctrine, and reading extensively in their on-line library. (this was before these fora were available. . .) GO EWTN and Mother A!!!
 
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puzzleannie:
I like no. 3, if more people learned to follow along the Latin Mass in this way we would get more demand for it in the parishes. They should also distribute missals or worship aids to the people in the pews most of whom don’t seem to know the prayers, songs or resonses.
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How about subtitles? It works for Opera.
 
I would rather the nighttime re-showing of the daily Mass would be at a different time. I usually don’t turn on the TV, wanting to watch daily Mass. I am often still awake at 11:00 p.m. (when the daily Mass shows…at least here), and it would be nice to be able to watch a documentary or something else that is more explanatory.
 
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m134e5:
I would rather the nighttime re-showing of the daily Mass would be at a different time. I usually don’t turn on the TV, wanting to watch daily Mass. I am often still awake at 11:00 p.m. (when the daily Mass shows…at least here), and it would be nice to be able to watch a documentary or something else that is more explanatory.
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I agree!
 
This may come across as shallow but here is my (name removed by moderator)ut.

EWTN has a lot of good information to give out but the production value is so poor it makes it difficult to watch.

Many of the programs are just talking heads with little or no visuals. Often the speakers mumble a bit or they are just not miked well so it is hard to understand.

The history channel has done documentaries on the Bible that are shockingly inaccurate but the visuals of places in the Holy Lands and iconography are beautiful.

As several people pointed out earlier they undoubtedly need more money to produce better programs but I wish they would make an effort to make the shows interesting enough that I could get the kids to watch with me.
 
Michael's Sword:
This may come across as shallow but here is my (name removed by moderator)ut.

EWTN has a lot of good information to give out but the production value is so poor it makes it difficult to watch.

Many of the programs are just talking heads with little or no visuals. Often the speakers mumble a bit or they are just not miked well so it is hard to understand.

The history channel has done documentaries on the Bible that are shockingly inaccurate but the visuals of places in the Holy Lands and iconography are beautiful.

As several people pointed out earlier they undoubtedly need more money to produce better programs but I wish they would make an effort to make the shows interesting enough that I could get the kids to watch with me.
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I think you make a good point, and it probably is all about money. Many of the shows that I think are ‘dated’ are actually new. They just look dated because the production quality is poor.
 
I enjoy the programs on EWTN I’m able to see, but they share time on the same cable channel with TBN (I think). I must admit that the sudden switches can be funny, especially as they jump from Efram Zimbalist, Jr. directly to Fr. Francis on Life on the Rock. :rolleyes:
 
One thing that I’d love to see changed (it’s petty, I know):
Replace the British Lady voiceover for all Vatican happenings with subtitles. I’d rather listen to the Pope’s Italian and Latin while reading the subtitled text. Also, replace the British Lady voice for incidental prayers, etc. Too saccharine and therefore distracting.
 
Why on earth doesn’t EWTN do an English/Latin rosary? They do it for the Mass and the common prayers of the rosary (our father, hail mary, glory be) are *far *better known than those of the liturgy.
 
I believe EWTN has a book in their catalogue available for anyone who wants to follow the Mass and has trouble with Latin. I bought an old missal, made in 1956, at a second hand store. Here are a couple of the communion prayers.

Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof; say but the word, and my soul shall be healed.

In Latin:
Domine, non sum dignus, ut intres sub tectum meum: sed tantum dic verbo, et sanabitur anima mea.

When the priest elevates the Blessed Sacrament:
Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who takes away the sins of the world.

Latin:
Ecce Agnes Dei, ecce qui tollit peccata mundi.

If you listen carefully, you eventually pick up the pronunciation and the key words.

At the end of the Mass the muffled prayer they are reciting is the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel.

**"St. Michael the Archangel, **
defend us in this day of battle,
Be our protection against the snares and wickedness of the devil,
May God rebuke him we humbly pray,
and do thou O prince of the heavenly hosts,
By the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all other evil spirits,
who prowl throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls."

It was written by Pope Leo XIII near the close of the 19c. in response to a vision he is purported to have experienced foretelling the evil of the 20c. which was unleashed on the world. The prayer is a mini-exorcism prayer. With hindsight we know how prescient he was.
 
Michael's Sword:
This may come across as shallow but here is my (name removed by moderator)ut.

EWTN has a lot of good information to give out but the production value is so poor it makes it difficult to watch.

I wish they would make an effort to make the shows interesting enough that I could get the kids to watch with me.
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I agree with you. I have EWTN radio and my son won’t listen to it because of the poor production quality. I notice a lot of times, that a program or clip will start, only to be replaced, mid-thought, by something totally different. I don’t know if this goes on on the TV station or if it is just on radio, but it is distracting.
 
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