CNA<\/a>).- The legacy of Mother Angelica, the Poor Clare nun who founded Catholic cable channel EWTN, continues to live on in those who watched her or worked with her.<\/p>\nAt the 10th annual EWTN family celebration, the first since Mother\u2019s death on Easter Sunday this past year, both viewers and staff of the network recalled their favorite memories of the formidable nun over the years.<\/p>\n
Brother Leo (of Hey Brother Leo! fame) joined the friars with the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word in 1992, the order of friars founded by Mother Angelica. Soon after he joined, he began floor directing Mother Angelica for her live show.<\/p>\n
The most difficult part about getting Mother ready for her shows was making sure she was in her seat on time, he told CNA.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe loved to talk with people (in the audience) before her live show. Trying to get her on the set was not easy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Brother Leo added that although Mother was not always this way with everyone, she was especially gentle and motherly to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother died when I was three and so she was like a mother to me,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was there to encourage me\u2026because she probably knew that I needed that type of comfort. She would encourage me when I was floor directing and smile at me. I always enjoyed working with her live shows.\u201d<\/p>\n
During a talk at the family event, Fr. Wade Menezes recalled Mother\u2019s propensity for taking chances, especially on people.<\/p>\n
It was early in the Jubilee Year of 2000, and Mother Angelica\u2019s sisters needed a priest in residence who would say Mass for the sisters and could help the friars at EWTN. Mother called Fr. Menezes\u2019 superior at the time, asking if he had any priests.<\/p>\n
Because of Fr. Menezes\u2019 background in journalism, his superior decided to recommend him for the post.<\/p>\n
\u201cMother I have just the man for you,\u201d his superior told the nun. \u201cBut there\u2019s only one problem. He\u2019s not ordained yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll take him!\u201d Mother responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I always saw that as Mother being a mother,\u201d Fr. Menezes said. \u201cShe was taking on this baby priest and being a mentor to me of sorts \u2013 there was something very special about mother willing to take that risk.\u201d
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\nBut Mother\u2019s influence extended beyond the staff and clergy working with her at EWTN. Throughout the course of the weekend, many viewers shared their stories of conversion after watching the nun on T.V.<\/p>\n
Kate Eberwyn was a lapsed Catholic who was \u201cvery negative about Catholicism\u201d, and although her family remained devout, she \u201cthought they were all stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n
But as she watched the Twin Towers collapse on T.V. on Sept. 11, she thought the world was ending. Flipping through the T.V. channels, she saw a nun talking to a friar \u2013 Mother Angelica and Fr. Benedict Groeschel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said that in a time like this we should pray to Our Lady of Guadalupe who is the patroness of the Americas,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I said to (God), \u2018I don\u2019t know much about you, I don\u2019t even think I like you, but I\u2019m going to pray.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
She went back to confession and to Mass, and has been a devout Catholic ever since, she said.<\/p>\n
Jean, a viewer from Chicago, said when she was about 11 or 12 she wanted to learn how to pray the rosary, so she started watching Mother Angelica\u2019s show every night.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe taught me all of the prayers to the rosary, and I\u2019ve prayed it daily ever since, so she really helped me foster my relationship with Mary and to learn to love the Blessed Mother,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Throughout the weekend, many who knew Mother Angelica reiterated that it was her faith in Jesus, and her ability to draw others to him, that was and continues to be the legacy of Mother, more so than just simply being a T.V. personality.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t say how many people I\u2019ve met who have said I learned to pray the rosary by watching EWTN,\u201d said Michael Warsaw, CEO of EWTN.<\/p>\n
During the family talk, Warsaw said if he could sum up the legacy of Mother Angelica, it would be with one of her own favorite phrases, which was: \u201cDare to do the ridiculous, so God can do the miraculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDare to do the ridiculous. We should all be willing to do those things which in the eyes of the world are ridiculous, so that we can assist God in accomplishing the miraculous That\u2019s what Mother Angelica did when founding EWTN 35 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mother Angelica, a cloistered nun, began the network out of her garage in 1981. It is now the largest religious media network in the world, providing Catholic media through television, radio, the internet, print services like the National Catholic Register and wire services like Catholic News Agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe did something that in the eyes of the world was completely ridiculous but she knew that if she stepped out in faith, God would use her and her new network to accomplish the miraculous,\u201d Warsaw added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stories we\u2019ve heard tonight, what we\u2019ve heard throughout this weekend is confirmation of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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