Mother Angelica on Prayer and Living for the Kingdom

by Mother Angelica

In these insightful pages, Mother Angelica deepens your understanding of prayer and the practicalities of living with our ultimate purpose—eternity in heaven with Jesus. The celebrated television personality brings to bear her spiritual wisdom and personal experience in this indispensable collection of writings. Mother Angelica dedicated her life to prayer and her ministry to directing the gaze of her viewers and listeners to heaven; this volume brings together, for the first time, the writing on these topics that preceded and inspired her extraordinary media ministry.

In this book Mother invites you into her world of prayer, including discussions of the various types of prayer that can be found in the rich tradition of the Catholic Church. She also offers you some of her original prayers that will enhance your daily spiritual life.

Prayer orients our soul to God, but so do so many other aspects of our daily lives. Mother Angelica never neglected the everyday actions that have heavenly importance. Here you will find practical guidance for developing the virtues and other habits that ensure we are living for the Kingdom that does not end.

Kindle Edition

Published August 21, 2017

About the author

Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo; April 20, 1923 – March 27, 2016), usually known as Mother Angelica, was an American Franciscan nun best known as a television personality and the founder of both the internationally-broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio network WEWN.

In 1981, Mother Angelica started broadcasting religious programs from a converted garage in Birmingham, Alabama. Over the next twenty years, she developed a media network that included radio, TV, and internet channels as well as printed media.

Mother Angelica hosted shows on EWTN until she had a stroke in 2001. She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville until her death at age 92 on March 27, 2016, Easter Sunday.

In 2009, Mother Angelica was a recipient of the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Award granted by Pope Benedict XVI for services to the Catholic Church.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whenever I read one of Mother Angelica's books, I realize how much I miss her. When she left this world it was like a bright candle going out. She had such a no-nonsense human way of speaking, but she could also be incredibly profound.

She wrote the contents of this book over the course of time while in Adoration. There are several different sections dealing with prayer. She offers practical advice and inspiration to help produce fruit in one's prayer life. One part entitled "Journey into Prayer" was particularly lovely. This consisted of readings, thoughts, prayers and meditations. Her beautiful but simple explanation of both the Gifts and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit was so insightful. She would word things in such a way that everything could be so easily applied to modern life.

She also wrote a section pertaining to service that I thought was just wonderful. She gave different categories of service, (such as time, talent, prayer, suffering and monetary), and many concrete examples for each. Some of the examples were things that I'd never have thought of on my own! She would then write about the motivations behind the service given, and how to discern whether the motive behind the action was altruistic or not. She explained all of this with sensible clarity.

Highly recommended for those looking to enhance their prayer life.

[Gene Steinbacher · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was a bit disappointed probably because I was expecting a story. This book is great for prayer meditation is that is what you are looking for.

[Molly Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good ol' Mother Angelica!