Mother’s zeal to make the God she loved, known and loved by others, continued to grow throughout her life unabated. Year after year and opportunity after opportunity gave rise to Mother’s spiritual talks, writing and printing of Mini Books, studio productions and the beginning of EWTN – what would become a Catholic Multimedia Enterprise – all which ran astride and flowed from her dedication to Jesus, the Eternal Word made Flesh. Mother Angelica made a decisive public stand for orthodoxy at the Denver WYD, and announced that the Sisters at OLAM would return to wearing the full traditional habit. The Nuns supported the Network from the beginning, taking calls at the telethons, giving tours to visitors, opening mail, printing programs, and most of all praying for the work God had surprisingly entrusted to these cloistered nuns!Ī rather visible change in the Sister’s life occurred in August 1993. It was hardly foreseeable that this new missionary endeavor that had begun in the OLAM garage with only $200.00, would become the great media apostolate that it is today. It was a day of great rejoicing for all the community. The Sisters printed, packaged and shipped these inspired works by the thousands.Īfter many leaps of faith, on August 15, 1981, Mother Angelica launched Eternal Word Television Network at 6:00 PM. In 1972, almost a decade after the founding of the monastery, Mother Angelica’s charisma and gift of teaching unfolded even more when she began to write “Mini Books.” The first of many books was Journey into Prayer. After the Nuns had made their new home in Irondale and funds were still desperately needed, the creation of the “Lil ‘Ol Peanut Co.” helped to keep the monastery running. Visitors began to come to OLAM, evidently drawn to the quiet Presence in the chapel. Mother and the Nuns were received by the people of Birmingham with great love and tremendous support. A few months later, Sister Veronica, formerly the abbess of Sancta Clara Monastery transferred to the fledgling community. Mother Angelica’s mother, Mae Francis, entered as an extern postulant on the same day. Mother Angelica and the founding Sisters took up residence in the monastery, inaugurating our life of prayer and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament here in the South. On May 20, 1962, Our Lady of the Angels Monastery was dedicated by Archbishop Toolen. On May 8, 1962, Mother Angelica, Sister Raphael, Sister Joseph, Sister Michael and Sister Assumpta, the founding Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, left Sancta Clara Monastery in Canton OH for the new foundation in Alabama.
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