Fr. Joseph Mary Wolfe: Mother Angelica and the Eucharistic Revival
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The Most Holy Eucharist is exposed for the adoration of the faithful in a large monstrance at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama (photo: Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament)
By Father Joseph Mary Wolfe, EWTN News, August 22, 2023
Father Joseph Mary Wolfe, a priest of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word, serves as chaplain and chapel dean for EWTN.
In this time of the Eucharistic Revival in the United States, we should be thankful for the legacy that Mother Angelica and Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration have left to us
On Jan. 21, 1985, having left a blustery Iowa snowstorm the day before, I arrived in warm sunny Irondale, Alabama, to begin my new job as an engineer for EWTN, which had been launched just three and a half years before. There was a small crew of 25 (many of us in our 20s) and 12 nuns at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery. The garage studio was still in use and the network aired programs for four hours every evening, sharing transponder time on a satellite with a secular news service.
In those early days, the nuns helped with everything from answering Live Show calls to processing the mail, but the heart of their lives, as was evident to us who worked there, was their spousal love for Jesus. The nuns spoke of him quite naturally and freely — of knowing him personally, something that came about through their daily encounter with him in the Blessed Sacrament. …
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