Mother Angelica - The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
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Mother Angelica - The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
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This is the extraordinary saga of Mother Angelica, founder of the world-renowned Eternal Word Television Network and “the most influential Catholic woman in America” according to Time magazine.
Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, in 1923, Mother Angelica was abandoned by her father and raised in poverty by a mother who suffered from suicidal depressions. As a young woman, Rita developed severe abdominal pain that doctors dismissed as a “nervous condition,” but when she sought the prayers of a local mystic, her symptoms disappeared. Awakened to the power of prayer, she vowed to dedicate her life to God and became a cloistered nun, expecting to spend her life hidden from the world. But Mother’s faith soon compelled her to unlikely endeavors, from establishing a monastery in Alabama to starting the world’s first Catholic cable network. Relying solely on “God’s providence,” Mother Angelica built a huge apostolate without concern for budgets or fund-raising campaigns, achieving what even the highest levels of the Catholic Church had been unable to do.
Raymond Arroyo writes as an objective journalist — he avoids what could have been a sugar-coated approach in his writing of a saintly woman. But he does write from a standpoint of faith. The 384-page book is based on more than five years of exclusive interviews with Mother Angelica. He traces her tortured rise in following her mission, and exposes for the first time the fierce opposition she faced, both inside and outside the Church. It is an inspiring story of survival and proof that one woman’s faith can move more than mountains.
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