… Why don’t you ask the Lord to give you the courage to stand alone if you have to, but to tell the truth with love and compassion?” (p. You don’t say what the Church teaches, because you’re afraid. “I know some of you ministers and priests really advise people to do sinful things just to please them. Here, Mother Angelica, in her typical bold proclamation of truth, doesn’t shy away from waking up her audience with such challenging words as the following addressed to ministers and priests: Sometimes in being presented with the same passages of Scripture over and over again, we can lack the proper sensitivity and receptivity to what the Lord, in his word, is placing before us. Through the chapters of this book, each devoted to a distinct New Testament passage (at times more than one) and with a particular focus on the Gospels, one not only encounters the Scriptures with a fresh perspective, but also the Person of Christ and the various personalities of the apostles. She slows down one’s reading of Scripture, drawing attention to particular details, and even surprising ones, present in the passage. In these pages, Mother doesn’t share a particular system of meditation, but rather shares the benefits of a careful reading of Scripture united to prayer, attentive to how the Lord might be calling the individual to enter into dialogue with a passage, not as a mere intellectual exercise but as a call upon one’s life - at times a challenging one! Through Living the Scriptures, a compilation of chapters based on content from Mother Angelica’s EWTN television program by the same name, and edited by Daniel Hopkins, Mother Angelica does just that. By Mother Angelica, edited by Daniel Hopkinsĭo you ever wish someone might teach you how to read the Gospels, how to meditate on Scripture, or how to open your eyes to the riches of God’s word?
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