In this time of Eucharistic renewal in the United States, we will have to give thanks for the legacy left to us by Mother Angelica and the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration.
On January 21, 1985, after leaving a heavy snowstorm in Iowa the day before, I arrived in the warm and sunny region of Irondale, Alabama, to begin my new engineering assignment for EWTN, which had been introduced just 3 1/2 years ago. years before. There is a small team of 25 other people (many of us in our twenties) and 12 nuns at the monastery of Our Lady of the Angels. The garage studio is still in use and the network transmission systems for 4 hours each night. , sharing transponder time on a satellite with a secular news service.
In the early days, nuns helped with everything from answering calls from live shows to handling mail, however, the center of their lives, as was evident to us while we were there, was their marital love for Jesus. The nuns spoke of him naturally and freely. — to know him personally, which was obligatory in the daily encounter with him in the Blessed Sacrament.
I started attending Mass every day of Lent and never stopped. Mother Angelica’s former novice mistress, Sister Veronica, was 90, and before morning Mass, one of the nuns wheeled her into the chapel. Upon entering the chapel, everyone let yourself be enchanted to hear him sing “O my Jesus, I love you so much!Ooo my Jesus, I love you so much! (This was sung to the tune of the conclusion of Silent Night – “Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. “)
The music provided by the nuns for the Mass came from the center and Mother Angelica’s vicar, Sister Raphael, sang a solo of classics such as Panis Angelicus and Ave Maria. Mother Angelica herself sang a single verse at Christmas and Easter, and we were all looking forward to those celebrations.
Perhaps the greatest gift the sisters have given me and so many others – whether through word and example – has been to help us notice and love the genuine presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. This daily encounter with our Eucharistic Lord nevertheless led me to the devout life and to the priesthood in our network consecrated to the Blessed Sacrament.
In 1958, when television had become influential, Pope Pius XII knew he needed a heavenly patron. In his Apostolic Letter, he writes:
St. Clare is represented as maximal holding a monstrance since her prayer before our Eucharistic Lord protected the nuns from the Saracen invaders. I like to believe that a daughter of St. Clare, Mother Angelica, brandishing a monstrance, inviting the whole world to observe and love her in her Real Presence there. The exposition and adoration of our Eucharistic Lord was and remains the focus of EWTN. Every day of the year, he is worshipped at the center of EWTN’s campus.
Pilgrims visiting Alabama continually tell us, “The EWTN Mass has helped us triumph over COVID. In fact, there are no games or any other entertainment on TV and many other people have become normal audiences of EWTN thanks to our daily televised Mass. Fortunately, we were able to stay in the air without major setbacks thanks to God’s Providence and Michael’s careful leadership. We also began live streaming adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from our chapel and continued to present it on our television screens around the world.
Mother Angelica, above all a devout consecrated among the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a network founded on December 8, 1854 in Troyes, France, to offer thanksgiving for the Eucharist in reparation for those who never do it and in reparation for sacrilege. Its foundress, Mother Mary of St. Clare, encouraged through the Gospel account of the ten lepers, of whom only one returned to give thanks.
As we continue in this time of Eucharistic revival in the United States, let us be grateful for the legacy that Mother Angelica and the nuns have left us, which has helped so many find hope, healing, direction, comfort, conversion, and joy in finding the genuine presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. In fact, the PCPA’s constant gaze on custody attracted many of us to look at it as well.
But this is not the end of the story of Mother Angelica and the Eucharistic renewal. Perhaps the most beautiful shrine dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament in the world is in central Alabama, just outside the small town of Hanceville. The “temple” is full of gentleness, and there is no doubt where the center of attention is. It is Jesus, true, true, substantial and profoundly provided in the Blessed Sacrament. From the 8-foot monstrance with worshiping angels, to the stained temple. The glass windows of the angels towards the monstrance, before the good aspect of the liturgy celebrated there, all eyes are instinctively directed towards Him, who is the Beloved of our souls.
I was very happy to see that the Indianapolis Eucharistic Congress in 2024 will be preceded by a national Eucharistic pilgrimage from the north and south, east and west of the United States. The southern arm of the pilgrimage will depart from Brownsville, Texas, and prevent at sites along the way, adding the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville.
In this centenary year of Mother Angelique’s birth, it is fitting that this pilgrimage stops at the position built through Mother Angelica, who did so much to revive devotion to the Eucharist in the hearts of so many other people around the world.
Sister Veronica, after a life of adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, was impelled to sing upon entering His Real Presence: “O my Jesus, I love you so much!O my Jesus, I love you so much! Thank you, Mother Angelica and dear Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration for helping so many others discover a center that burns with love for us!
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