I had looked at them, thought them interesting and valuable, but felt they were at the shallow end of the spiritual pool. Mother Angelica and EWTN helped me a lot in early recovery when I knew AA’s 12 Steps weren’t going to be enough. When I finally succumbed to it, being too physically weak to go anywhere, exposure to EWTN finally brought the Faith out from the dark nether regions of my soul where it had lain dormant.
The seeds were planted and slowly took root. Although I wasn’t practicing the Faith, the annual Divine Mercy Sunday telecast was an annual event. Whatever, God knew, though! Mother Angelica’s broadcast of the Divine Mercy Chaplet devotion as well as the annual Divine Mercy Sunday celebrations from Eden Hill, MA slowly drew me back home. Maybe she just taught it to me because I didn’t know it. I think Mom knew something wasn’t quite right concerning my relationship to the Church, but she never said anything. My Mom had taught the Divine Mercy Chaplet to me during the years before my reversion and recovery. These all helped me straighten out my thinking. All of that, as well as Father Angelus Shaughnessy’s homilies and Father Benedict Groeschel’s programs. Mom watched EWTN every morning, mainly the Daily Mass and several devotional programs, particularly the Divine Mercy Chaplet. It was a process that stretched over several years, but ultimately came to fruition when I was felled by my alcoholism and would up doing nothing but laying on my Mom’s couch for weeks on end as I was too ill to go anywhere and do anything. “Mother Angelica was, to say the least, a significant factor in my reversion to the Catholic Church in 2002. Anyway, I told my Reversion story before, so I won’t repeat it (read that link if you want to know more.) But EWTN was a critical part of my reversion in that when I sobered up, as I elaborated that element in Mother Angelica of EWTN dies, Easter Sunday 2016, quote: “I don’t need it, I can go to God directly by my own path.” Um, yeah, right. I had left the Church years before, thinking that organized religion was bunk.
If you enjoy reading this blog, you can thank her because the primary reason I am a Catholic today is because of her network and the shows on it. Today marks the third anniversary of the death of Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, the founder of the EWTN Catholic media empire.
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