“I think this word of the prophet can also be applied to Mother Angelica,” he said, explaining that “the sense of our lives, the sense of her life was determined by an encounter. He pointed to the words of the Prophet Isaiah in the day’s first reading, who said that “no longer shall there be an old man who does not round out his full lifetime.” “We live and we are in front of a death to give sense to our lives.” “The mystery of death raises questions in all of us, but it’s still a mystery,” he said. Federico Lombardi and attended by journalists from various media outlets as well as Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See Eduard Habsburg, Fisichella praised Mother as someone whose legacy would continue to last.Ī year after her death, “we try to remember her words, her preaching – because it was (a type of) preaching – her witness and the work she did for the Church,” he said. In his homily for the Mass, which was concelebrated by former Vatican spokesman Fr. She died Ma– Easter Sunday – after a lengthy struggle with the aftereffects of a stroke. Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation founded EWTN in 1981, and it has since become the largest religious media network in the world. Peter’s Basilica to mark the one-year anniversary since Mother Angelica’s death. Head of the Vatican’s Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, Fisichella celebrated Mass March 27 at the altar of St. “Fulton Sheen and Mother Angelica, for the whole Church they are the image, the icon of what the New Evangelization through the new media of communications means,” he said. at the time: Archbishop Fulton Sheen, whose cause for canonization has been opened. “Before John Paul II spoke of the New Evangelization, (Mother Angelica) was able to do it concretely with television, the new way of communicating the Word of God,” Archbishop Fisichella told CNA March 27.īecause of this, he said Mother “was a New Evangelist, she concretely did the New Evangelization” alongside another major saintly personality in the U.S. Peter's Basilica to mark the one-year anniversary of the passing of Mother Angelica, saying the nun changed the face of the New Evangelization by riding the digital wave and using to communicate the Gospel in a fresh and appealing way. Vatican City, / 11:31 am ( CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Rino Fisichella celebrated Mass in St.
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