EWTN Now: Nice Dramatization of St. Faustina's life, with Helen Hayes

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narrating, making an onscreen appearance introducing the story as well. EWTN does some beautiful productions and this is one, and very informative, too

Just a heads up if you get EWTN; it's called "Divine Mercy: No Escape," wil likely be rerun soon. Looks like about 40 minutes left in this one hour showing.

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1. I saw that. It was very interesting.

I love praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

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3. I love the program they show on EWTN in which the chaplet of

the Divine Mercy is sung. It has a special beauty. Have you seen it? It's one of the brief devotionals they show, like the Litany of the Precious Blood (also very moving)), the Angelus, etc.

I'm so glad to have finally gotten into watching EWTN. I think we talked about it before, scarlet owl. I had not watched it much since Direct TV added it to our regular package, because it seemed than whenever I watched anything other than Mass, it was a rather boring talking head program!

And I'm pretty sure it was you who told me how much you liked the network. :loveya:

After watching all the coverage of John Paul the Great's death and funeral, the Conclave on EWTN, I've gotten into the habit of checking out their programming much more often.

Could be time for another EWTN thread, scarlet, why don't you start one for us? I'd love to know what others in our group like (or dislike) about EWTN.
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5. That's a good idea! I think I will start an EWTN thread.

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2. I love St. Faustina! I like her diary esp. her vision of

Therese of Lisieux and the roses in the cooking pot.

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4. You'd love this special about her life and the theology of the

Divinde Mercy. I knew very little about her or about the devotion to the Divine Mercy, but I now see why John Paul II made the 2nd Sunday of Easter Divine Mercy Sunday.

Do you get EWTN where you are? Are you an Anglican actually in Angleterre? ;-)

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6. I am an Anglican in Maryland actually!

I think I might have seen a tape of that. Is it called "A Time for Mercy?"

Divine Mercy is very popular. I try to recite the three o'clock hour of Mercy prayer wherever I can remember it.

EWTN can sometimes be interesting, but it is very right wing. Could Mother Angelica be the Roman Catholic Rush or what? But there are some nice tours of cathedrals and art and talks about saint lives, so again, sometimes interesting. But I don't have cable so no EWTN :(

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7. It's called "Divine Mercy: No Escape." Sr. Faustina couldn't

escape the visions.

I haven't found EWTN to be as right wing as I'd feared. It is traditional Catholic but traditional Catholic that accepts Vatican II. Mother Angelica now only appears live leading the Rosary, having had a stroke a few years ago and having just turned 82 a couple of weeks ago, and I've only seen a couple of reruns of the old "Mother Angelica Live" shows, which were good.

I read her book "Answers, Not Promises" many years ago and I liked it; she has a lot of common sense. Since I converted in my forties, my daughter was not raised Catholic and is not Catholic, but she also liked the book. Both of us were skeptical about the book before reading it. I can't remember what my daughter found especially helpful, probably some of the advice about marriage, but will never forget the section on abortion and miscarriage myself.

Mother Angelica counsels women who have aborted or miscarried that they can be consoled to know that their child did not cease to exist, but that the first thing their child ever saw was the face of God, the first thing the child ever heard was the voice of God. She advises that we name our children who died before birth and, knowing they are in Heaven, ask them to pray for us. I lost a baby a dozen years or more before I read Mother Angelica's book and it was the best advice I ever got. Most people don't understand how much grief a woman can feel over a lost child; you are told things like "Isn't it lucky you lost it so early?" or "Well, it's not like losing a real child." (No, it's not lucky at all! Yes, it is a real child. Sure, anyone knows in their head that it must be worse to have a six month-old baby die, or a sex year-old, etc. But that does not mean it doesn't hurt to lose a child before or at birth. You've already imagined that child growing up so in a sense you have lost a grown up child.)

Needless to say, I have repeated Mother's advice often to others who have lost babies. Invariably, women, and sometimes men, who have lost a baby, cry when they hear that they can be consoled to know that the first thing their child ever saw was the face of God.

I really liked it that, although Mother Angelica is clear about saying abortion is a sin, she is equally clear about a woman needing to forgive herself, to get absolution if she's Catholic, and to make peace with what happened, by naming the child and asking him or her to pray for you. She talks a lot about getting rid of guilt, addresses the issues of suffering, forgiving, lust, fear of death, lots more.

Try this link and you should get to the first page of the book and be able to read 3 or 4 pages that are on-line

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0898706068/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-8364739-7215967#reader-page