Mother Angelica's Guide to the Spiritual Life

by Mother Angelica

Mother Angelica, the celebrated founder of EWTN Global Catholic Network, dedicated her life to directing the gaze of her audience to Heaven. This volume assembles her most profound and timeless advice on how you can grow in holiness and achieve your ultimate purpose — to spend eternity in Heaven with Jesus.

In her typical entertaining but uncompromising style, Mother Angelica reminds you that salvation is won at a great price. You’ll learn why following Christ is often so difficult, and you’ll discover the simple ways you can begin even now to make progress in the most vexing areas of your life.

Mother Angelica will inspire you to enter willingly and confidently into the battle for virtue while she offers time-tested methods for overcoming your fears and anxieties. She’ll identify the many common flaws and obstacles to spiritual growth and share with you the strategies the saints employed to conquer their temptations. You’ll also learn:

How to conquer nervousness, self-doubt, and timidity

How to deal with tension involving a loved one

Why not all anger is intrinsically wrong

Ways you can avoid dwelling on past missteps

Why we all have genuine identifiable weaknesses

Techniques for profiting from criticism — and for avoiding situations that bring it about

How to know if someone is bringing out your best or least favorable qualities

Why uncertainty is different from doubt

How hang-ups over past mistakes can thwart future growth

The four essential duties of all parents

How to evaluate your spiritual growth with humility and objectivity

Genres: Catholic

160 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2021

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

[Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

Disclaimer: this book is not an original, genuine specimen of Mother Angelica's writing. It was written by Brandon McGuinely, who converted Mother's television dialogue into book text. Seriously, everything you'll read in this book can be heard on the 80's TV program, Mother Angelica Presents.

I'm not saying this as a criticism. This book offers a lot of valuable wisdom drawn straight from the good Mother herself, but it cannot be truly compared with one of her pen-to-paper works. Indeed, the writing style is noticeably more informal – even a bit awkward at times – and it does sound like a TV script. Nevertheless, it covers many important and relatable subjects that today's Catholics need advice on. The characteristic spunk, humor, and passion of this Poor Claire nun give the text a certain endearment, just like her televised broadcasts.

Overall I recommend it. But look, too, at such books as Mother Angelica on Suffering and Burnout or Mother Angelica's Guide to Practical Holiness.