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The Prayers and Personal Devotions of Mother Angelica
For the first time, you can pray with a woman who has transformed the lives of millions around the world.
This precious collection gives readers a chance to experience the personal, daily, spiritual practice of Mother Angelica. Seen by millions each day on the television network she founded, Mother Angelica is one of the most trusted and beloved religious figures of our time. Her words of wisdom about the spiritual life have been broadcast throughout the world on EWTN and have become New York Times bestselling books. For Mother the act of prayer is an unceasing daily conversation with the Divine—one that has been a source of inspiration and solace for nearly seven decades. Now Mother Angelica shares a lifetime of her private prayers and devotions so that you can experience and utter the very words that have shaped her incredible life.
This treasury of material, much of it never before published, includes:
* A complete prayer journal composed during Mother’s personal dark night of the soul
* Handwritten meditations offered to her sisters
* Two moving versions of the Stations of the Cross composed for her community
* Devotions and petitions from her early religious life
Throughout, Mother Angelica’s humor, warmth, and wisdom shine through. More than a collection of prayers, this special volume is an intimate portrait of one of the world’s great women of faith. For devoted fans of Mother Angelica as well as for those just coming to know her, this inspiring guide will be a cherished companion along each step of the path to holiness.
This precious collection gives readers a chance to experience the personal, daily, spiritual practice of Mother Angelica. Seen by millions each day on the television network she founded, Mother Angelica is one of the most trusted and beloved religious figures of our time. Her words of wisdom about the spiritual life have been broadcast throughout the world on EWTN and have become New York Times bestselling books. For Mother the act of prayer is an unceasing daily conversation with the Divine—one that has been a source of inspiration and solace for nearly seven decades. Now Mother Angelica shares a lifetime of her private prayers and devotions so that you can experience and utter the very words that have shaped her incredible life.
This treasury of material, much of it never before published, includes:
* A complete prayer journal composed during Mother’s personal dark night of the soul
* Handwritten meditations offered to her sisters
* Two moving versions of the Stations of the Cross composed for her community
* Devotions and petitions from her early religious life
Throughout, Mother Angelica’s humor, warmth, and wisdom shine through. More than a collection of prayers, this special volume is an intimate portrait of one of the world’s great women of faith. For devoted fans of Mother Angelica as well as for those just coming to know her, this inspiring guide will be a cherished companion along each step of the path to holiness.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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Mother Angelica
33 books63 followersMother 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.
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.
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July 4, 2021
An awesome book with beautiful prayers. ❤️
March 14, 2019
God Bless and thank you Mother Angelica. I learned some new prayers at the time I needed them most.
May 9, 2012
This book, divided into topical chapters, e.g., "The Private Prayers" with specific, original prayer collections such as
during sickness, or "before travel" goes many places with me during the day and is shelved beside-the-bed at night. It can be read cover to cover or used as a resource. You don't have to be Catholic to appreciate Mother Angelica's neatly and expertly penned devotions, meditations, and two beautiful takes on the stations of the cross. This book can give you deep peace but also instill an upbeat motivation to be your best self. It is an excellent guidebook for anyone seeking a deeper spiritual and prayer life, though it is grounded in Catholic theology, (she is after all, a cloistered nun!) Mother Angelica, formerly Rita Rizzo, is arguably one of the most influential Catholics in our time. But aside from her lofty achievements, this book also puts her on our level, as it contains her own frank and in places hard to read Dark Night of the Soul, in the form of diary entries. Knowing that someone so spiritual and devoted also experiences doubt and darkness, like St. Simeon, like all of us, is freeing and validating. Highly recommend!
during sickness, or "before travel" goes many places with me during the day and is shelved beside-the-bed at night. It can be read cover to cover or used as a resource. You don't have to be Catholic to appreciate Mother Angelica's neatly and expertly penned devotions, meditations, and two beautiful takes on the stations of the cross. This book can give you deep peace but also instill an upbeat motivation to be your best self. It is an excellent guidebook for anyone seeking a deeper spiritual and prayer life, though it is grounded in Catholic theology, (she is after all, a cloistered nun!) Mother Angelica, formerly Rita Rizzo, is arguably one of the most influential Catholics in our time. But aside from her lofty achievements, this book also puts her on our level, as it contains her own frank and in places hard to read Dark Night of the Soul, in the form of diary entries. Knowing that someone so spiritual and devoted also experiences doubt and darkness, like St. Simeon, like all of us, is freeing and validating. Highly recommend!
April 18, 2016
If we want to become Catholics, we cannot do it on our own. We must follow in the footsteps of spiritual leaders before us. Why? Because any path we walk, they have walked before. They will be able to see pitfalls, we'd otherwise miss. Other ways we can learn from them is by imitating their prayer life. That is why today I am reviewing The Prayers and Personal Devotions of Mother Angelica.
The book is approximately 200 pages long and is divided into three sections - private prayers, personal devotions, and meditations. In her private prayers, we see morning and nighttime prayers, but we also see pleas and prayers she prayed in difficult moments. In personal devotions, we see meditations on the Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, and Stations of the Cross, but we also see devotions, she held close to her heart, like the Divine Child Jesus. The meditations section is the shortest of the three, and it contains very brief meditations on subjects of healing, pain, suffering, and love.
We appreciate people more when they are gone than when they are here. And while, I doubt any American Catholic did not appreciate Mother Angelica while she was here with us, I think we can all step back now and see how far-reaching her touch really was. As with all the books that Raymond Arroyo has edited on Mother Angelica, this one shows not only her spirituality, but keeps her personality alive in it as well. Mother Angelica's biggest legacy will always be EWTN and the numerous archives of her programs, but these books will find their way into people's heart and homes and make an impact on their personal and spiritual lives.
The book is approximately 200 pages long and is divided into three sections - private prayers, personal devotions, and meditations. In her private prayers, we see morning and nighttime prayers, but we also see pleas and prayers she prayed in difficult moments. In personal devotions, we see meditations on the Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, and Stations of the Cross, but we also see devotions, she held close to her heart, like the Divine Child Jesus. The meditations section is the shortest of the three, and it contains very brief meditations on subjects of healing, pain, suffering, and love.
We appreciate people more when they are gone than when they are here. And while, I doubt any American Catholic did not appreciate Mother Angelica while she was here with us, I think we can all step back now and see how far-reaching her touch really was. As with all the books that Raymond Arroyo has edited on Mother Angelica, this one shows not only her spirituality, but keeps her personality alive in it as well. Mother Angelica's biggest legacy will always be EWTN and the numerous archives of her programs, but these books will find their way into people's heart and homes and make an impact on their personal and spiritual lives.
November 29, 2020
This is a compilation of Mother Angelica's prayers and devotions as per the title. There are few of her trademark witticisms and anecdotes, but their are many insights about how to pray, contemplate, meditate and also how to persevere. I found this book useful because it showed me how to look at certain aspects of prayer in a different light.
June 30, 2013
A gift from my mother~ Mother Angelica is a strong, devoted woman. The tasks she has completed and the works she has managed to accomplish are unbelievable!! Wonderful insight into a fantastic woman.
April 23, 2016
live fully in present moment, brings good from evil-the wisdom, I give you my sins my nothingness, teach me to love, wants to be loved by us, heal my will to do your will do the good, live in Christ on earth and heaven.
August 3, 2016
Mother Angelica is like no other when it comes to stating clearly, and at times humorously, what is required of us to become Christlike in preparation for that eternal bliss. Her heartfelt prayers are second to none. This book should and will be referred to often.
December 29, 2012
Excellent book by first rate author Raymond Arroyo!
October 21, 2011
Great book of prayers for those searching for prayers they can make there own.
January 30, 2013
Great Book!
June 25, 2013
I am so glad I bought this book! I know it will be well-used in the years to come. I love all of the prayers that Mother Angelica wrote, making me wonder if we are soul sisters! God Bless Her!
August 8, 2013
very interesting, i enjoyed reading this book of wonderful devotionals.
December 9, 2017
The prayers, wisdom, and devotions to God which are found here in this book are so transforming and beautiful. Mother Angelica’s books have helped me in some of the toughest times of my life, and she does it again here. Over and over again, I read these prayers, which can be at once: poetry of love to God and also raw with suffering about her own perceived personal failings. Known around the world as the founder of Eternal Word Television Network, I bet you didn’t know the enormous physical sufferings of her life or the reason she came to Birmingham, from Ohio, in the 1960s. Her way of helping black people with civil rights, was to set up a Monastery in Birmingham devoted to prayer before the Blessed Sacrament for hours every day. She wanted to make reparation to God for the terrible things done to African Americans.
The deep spirituality and wisdom of Mother Angelica, springs forth in these prayers , devotions, journal entries. These were all written over the course of her lifetime. It is a treasure trove! I discovered this book this year and am so thankful for the peace it brings me! 27 years ago, I first discovered Mother Angelica, through her book, Answers Not Promises. That helped me so much! I have read many of her books. Now this book brings me so much closer to the person of Jesus, our God.
There are extraordinary prayers of healing here, which I read again and again. But for me the most profound prayers of all are the meditations she wrote which aid in praying the Rosary. Praying the Rosary is like walking down the road with Jesus. There he is in all his humanity, yet still always True God. Perfectly entwined in the life of Jesus, by Divine design, is the life of our Blessed Mother Mary. That’s why she is so present in the Rosary. We love her so much and the prayers to her are taken to her Son, the God we worship. The Rosary is so full of lessons for daily living, it just never gets old.
Mother Angelica’s meditations on the mysteries of Jesus’s life and resurrection, found here, are different from anything I have seen. What she has written goes deeper into the heart of things. These meditations were written before she had her stroke. So the Luminous Mysteries, written by Saint Pope John Paul II, are sadly missing. Those gorgeous mysteries, so necessary for understanding the mission of Jesus before his Passion, were published after her stroke. So we never get to see what she might have meditated on with those mysteries. But it’s ok because what IS here brings extraordinary healing and vision for a path that leads me to the Lord.
My very favorite mysteries of the Rosary are the Sorrowful Mysteries. I have read that meditation on these brings great consolation to God, and it helps me to show more gratitude to Jesus for his extraordinary Love for all of us. Whenever I meditate on the Passion of Jesus, found in these Sorrowful Mysteries, my own suffering falls back into place. I unite it to His Cross.
This book doesn’t have to be read, front to back. I dip into particular parts of it as needed. In September, my family took a trip to EWTN in Irondale, AL. So worth the trip. Hers was a mission of miracles, greatly blessed again and again by God over the course of more than 50 years that she lived in Alabama. We also visited the monastery and church which she built about 20 years ago, in Hanceville, about an hour north of Irondale. Wow, there is so much to see there! It is all very beautiful and I know I will visit there again.
Mother Angelica loved God so much and her accomplishments are numerous. What a great gift from God, that she also shared the wisdom he gave her in books.
The deep spirituality and wisdom of Mother Angelica, springs forth in these prayers , devotions, journal entries. These were all written over the course of her lifetime. It is a treasure trove! I discovered this book this year and am so thankful for the peace it brings me! 27 years ago, I first discovered Mother Angelica, through her book, Answers Not Promises. That helped me so much! I have read many of her books. Now this book brings me so much closer to the person of Jesus, our God.
There are extraordinary prayers of healing here, which I read again and again. But for me the most profound prayers of all are the meditations she wrote which aid in praying the Rosary. Praying the Rosary is like walking down the road with Jesus. There he is in all his humanity, yet still always True God. Perfectly entwined in the life of Jesus, by Divine design, is the life of our Blessed Mother Mary. That’s why she is so present in the Rosary. We love her so much and the prayers to her are taken to her Son, the God we worship. The Rosary is so full of lessons for daily living, it just never gets old.
Mother Angelica’s meditations on the mysteries of Jesus’s life and resurrection, found here, are different from anything I have seen. What she has written goes deeper into the heart of things. These meditations were written before she had her stroke. So the Luminous Mysteries, written by Saint Pope John Paul II, are sadly missing. Those gorgeous mysteries, so necessary for understanding the mission of Jesus before his Passion, were published after her stroke. So we never get to see what she might have meditated on with those mysteries. But it’s ok because what IS here brings extraordinary healing and vision for a path that leads me to the Lord.
My very favorite mysteries of the Rosary are the Sorrowful Mysteries. I have read that meditation on these brings great consolation to God, and it helps me to show more gratitude to Jesus for his extraordinary Love for all of us. Whenever I meditate on the Passion of Jesus, found in these Sorrowful Mysteries, my own suffering falls back into place. I unite it to His Cross.
This book doesn’t have to be read, front to back. I dip into particular parts of it as needed. In September, my family took a trip to EWTN in Irondale, AL. So worth the trip. Hers was a mission of miracles, greatly blessed again and again by God over the course of more than 50 years that she lived in Alabama. We also visited the monastery and church which she built about 20 years ago, in Hanceville, about an hour north of Irondale. Wow, there is so much to see there! It is all very beautiful and I know I will visit there again.
Mother Angelica loved God so much and her accomplishments are numerous. What a great gift from God, that she also shared the wisdom he gave her in books.
August 12, 2017
This book was signed by Raymond Arroyo and had been collecting dust for a few years. Regret not reading it sooner! Simplistic, specific, easy to read and difficult to contemplate on. Loved praying with this holy poor Clare nun. Wouldn't have known how much she had suffered incessantly and living gracefully in spiritual aridity, in such close proximity to Christ on the cross. Thank you EWTN and Poor Clare Nuns for compiling Mother Angelica's prayer book. May she attain her sainthood in due time through special Graces from our Lord.
February 18, 2020
This book was a great collection of prayers and reflections.
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