[Music] Mother Angelica live brought to you from the Eternal Word Television Studios in Birmingham [Music] Alabama [Music] see in you the love the compassion of Jesus the most glorious work of all to praise God in his kingom moved by the spirit one who lives in love lives in God and God lives in him what a wonderful thing is our church this whole network is built on trust the essence of evangelization is to tell everybody Jesus loves you we are all called to be great Saints don't miss the [Appla
use] opportunity well thank you and we are going to talk about Jesus you know last week we had a lot of fun didn't we those of you that were listening and I hope you were and we decided that I would be interviewed by you well people liked it but they what they said is they had questions and they didn't get a chance to ask so we're going to do the same thing one more more time I'll give you chance to interview me in the meantime you can start calling now if you want to we have our 35th Anniversar
y this week uh on Saturday we will have a feast of Our Lady the visitation and then Sunday especially in America we have the Corpus chrisy two awesome truths I lady and the Eucharist and you know when when um Don Basco had that Vision I've talked to you about before he saw there this terrible Storm and The Holy Father Was guiding the ship and suddenly out of the ocean came two big pillars one with our lady on it and the other with the Eucharist and that's what calmed everything down and and brou
ght the church into peace and quiet and in the the big basilic of danas Our Lady of hoc Christians there is the date in 18 something that the Basilica was built and then at the other it says 19 so whatever damasco saw he felt it was in this Century so we had three and a half years left to wake up and give give our Lord and the Eucharist and our lady the opportunity to to save the world I think we all know that no political party no group and no single nation or group of Nations or United of Nati
ons can ever bring anything back we got so far now we have to ask our lady to come and save us for her son Jesus and we have to have that love for the Eucharist I thought tonight while I'm waiting for you to interview me we would look at a little man I hope I could f it I got it in this book some place a man called the kids very short and not well loved why well he was head of all the publicans and the publicans were like Internal Revenue unlike the internal revenue though they took maybe 10% fo
r Rome and 15 for themselves a nice little thing going so zakus was the head of all these and zakus was a Juke and he had no business being in that kind of it was hated by everyone oh you poor Sinners out there you are still loved by God it's unfortunate that you don't love him but he loves you and he will always go after you you know he makes the first move and this is one of these small small events in the gospel they prove many things first that to God Jesus Is God all things are presence and
he knew exactly what zakus did so this was in Jericho and he's gone through the time when a man whose name was zakus made its appearance and he was one of the senior tax collectors and a wealthy man wow he was anxious to see what kind of man Jesus was these too short maybe that's why he stole a lot you know he stole from all the tall people and he was could not see it for the crowd you could see this little man running around and he's behind this one and he's three feet taller and he goes behin
d that one he goes behind a teenager and he can't see either so he get a little upset so he ran ahead and you could just see him running and he climb a sck of Tree by the way I hope I don't get 2,000 sycamore trees but you see these beads I these These are petrified woods amazing isn't it something get so petrified but anyway they say that in a sycamore tree had has beads this this little darker they last a 100 years if anybody has in his yard a sycamore tree don't cut it down and say it to me b
ut I need to know are there beads this size on a chamar tree or is it the wood some of you are carpenters anybody here got a sar tree well shows you how scarce it is huh maybe you got one where I have lots of I have lots of them I'm in the nursing business thank you I'll see you after the show is it God good of all the nights I could have asked for a sycamore tree there it is tonight is it God wonderful huh they may be famous last words but anyway so this man runs up a sycamore tree to catch a g
limpse of Jesus now what would you do to see Jesus that's a good question is it huh would you run up in si Mar Tre would you run ahead of a crowd to see Jesus see you don't have to do any of those because you got the Eucharist some of you won't even fight Matt I mean fight the the the the traffic to go to mat on Sunday morning you won't walk a mile this man ran he wanted to see Jesus so he ran ahead all he wanted was to see Jesus that's all and when Jesus reached the spot he looked up and he sai
d zakus he knew his name he knows your name you're not a fooling him if you saw Jesus and he said who are you you couldn't change your name he knows your name he said zakus come down hurry cuz I must stay at your house today now who could I speak of your nearest Internal Revenue man who else your Banker that you owe big mortgage to and can't pay how about him and what would happen if Jesus came along and invited him and said I have to stay at your house tonight wouldn't you think in 5 seconds an
d all the Terrible Things That Banker or lawyer or doctor or somebody else did to you wouldn't you have words to say wouldn't you yeah you would I couldn't tell you the words I'd have to say and he hurried down and welcomed him joyfully can you imagine this little guy so excited and they complained when they saw what was happening Now isn't it strange that we want to save Souls but we don't want Sinners to be saved especially right before they die I mean we want them to suffer a little bit we wa
nt them to trip on a banana peel anything we want them we want to feel they almost didn't make it this a man who was really a thief and they said he's gone to stay at a sinner's house and zakiya stood his ground he said look sir I'm going to give half of my property to the port don't you think those people straightened up I bet they inched towards this little guy and said uh let's get in front here all of a sudden this little man looked very nice he's going to give half of his bundle to the poor
and then he said if I've cheated anybody I will pay him back four times the amount I'll make it bet after he did all that you still had a bundle well doesn't this show for the rest of us who are poor sitters doesn't it show the mercy of God I like to ask a question how is it that you and I may go to mass regularly every week every day we see Jesus we receive the body and blood soul Divinity of Jesus and our soul why is it zakus just saw his physical body there he knew he was a great man don't y
ou wonder the difference between zakus and the rest of us I mean when we see Jesus in the Eucharist when we receive Jesus in the Eucharist how is it it that we don't suddenly think of doing something wonderful for somebody like changing our life stop being some Grievous sin we're in giving half to the poor I could take quarter of that but really we don't we seem to go to mass every Sunday or every day and we walk out the same person we walked in you ever notice that how is it that zakus was not
baptized as you and are did not have the Divine indwelling as you and I didn't have all these awesome truths he just was curious and he ran ahead to see Jesus and our Lord was so happy over that even though his physical Vision was obscured by the crowd Jesus saw that Soul Run and climb a tree to see Jesus now what is going to happen when you run or you just stop your car a few minutes and go into your church and see Jesus hope you can find him what would happen to you do you think God would give
you the same Grace I'm sure absolutely sure and Jesus said to him today salvation has come to this house this man too is a son of Abraham for the C of man has come out to seek out and save what was lost that's that's what this network's all about we're here to seek what is lost some of you listening tonight A Lot say well you know that you can't judge or don't give me that stuff know that you can't judge for goodness sake what do you mean you can't judge if you're living up with some girl and S
ack it up with her you got to judge you're judge yourself it's not judging it's wrong it's sinful mortally sinful a lot of people don't want to tell you that but it's mortally what does it mean if you died with that on your soul you were not a repentant so Jesus wouldn't do that it isn't Jesus it's you see if you get in the habit of saying no to Jesus what makes you think when you die you're going to say yes huh you're going to keep there no so Jesus knew that these people were jealous you know
there's a strange seeing a phenomena that I'm always surprised at and that is the Divine indwelling the Divine indwelling did you know that when you're baptized you receive I don't care if you're two days old or 20 years old you receive into your heart the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit you become a Tabernacle of the Holy Spirit of Jesus you become a living monstr isn't that awesome oo wow if you could remember that if you could remember that ah you want one of my cough drops they're very go
od they just gave me one somebody gave you one oh brother Leo I tell you what I'm not changing the subject but I was at a conference last year I think and I'm up there about ready to cough I couldn't hold it and I said to somebody somebody have a cough drop I bet 25 people got up like that and before I knew it I had a bag a whole bag of cofr that's generosity but see I always wonder and I wonder about myself too you know I receive Jesus every morning we have to change see the key has changed jus
t by looking down at from a tree and seeing this awesome God men wow how is it we can pass our church and don't go in you say it's locked why we're afraid somebody will go in and steal the way you build your church is who wants it who wants these gymnasiums you're building and call spaces who wants this space you can keep it open day and night nobody's going for wi there there's nothing to steal we have Jesus Saturday we celebrate a feast of visitation when Elizabeth saw her cousin Mary and what
did Elizabeth say when she saw Mary coming she said oh who am I I that the mother my Lord should visit me wow and our lady talked about the awesome magnific my soul shall magnify the Lord see Elizabeth saw Mary and her heart exalted zakus zakus saw Jesus and he was converted we're going to have a wonderful procession on Sunday our priests and brothers are all be decked up and carryed candles and we're going to carry Jesus to three separate altars the people will sing you're welcome they're all
coming to see Jesus process we don't have processions anymore we got to have one to see the Blessed Sacrament carried carried by a holy priest with incense and flowered little little girls throwing uh roses petals onto the ground wow they all coming to see Jesus on this great feast of the body of Christ what will happen to you when you see Jesus when you come into our chapel and there he is and you'll know he's there Zak Theus knew and even if you're a great sinner you'll know because he was a g
reat sinner his curiosity converted him he said oh wow this man is special and I will give half of what I have to the poor and I've cheated anybody you know he cheated him I give you back four times while all these people were trying to figure out how much he owed them and how much each would get from that half of his fortune Jesus had one thing in mind I don't want to have supper with you tonight see we want to look at what happened to Jesus when he looked at zakus we all know what happened to
zakus when he saw Jesus what happened to Jesus when he saw zaki's heart not his stealing little hands and he saw his heart he invited himself to supper wow why are you so afraid to go to confession why is it some of you still don't like our lady I bet before you got married if you said to your husband I hate your mother if he was a decent man if he was a decent man he would have said bye-bye but yet a lot of you hate the mother of Jesus see what happened something happened when when Elizabeth sa
w Mary she was a lot older too and what happened to Elizabeth when Mary saw her Elizabeth was Sanctified because she cried out in joy and John leaped in her womb he said well what's that happens to every pregnant woman no no that was a sign of John the Baptist was Sanctified by the presence of Mary carrying Jesus Jesus began salvation Redemption he was his sin of original sin and John the Baptist was wiped away Wow when he saw Jesus he reacted we don't react when we see Jesus so I don't want to
get too emotional you know I mean we have to be sedate I don't know about that here I go again with these you know I never understand about ice I fight with it every day so you go to P STP of white water the ice hits your nose no matter how you turn it it follows you like a piranha in a boat send my somebody sent me one of these patient ring I call him patient because it saved me from a lot of wet noses a little thing they all got lost so if you have any more nose protectors that you could fight
she send me once I don't have to fight with ice and where was I on a kiss well anyway it's time for a question hello hello where are you from I'm calling from kumoo Michigan wonderful what is your question I'm wondering how the television network started uh we're new to this we haven't seen it uh well for about a year now we're wondering how the television got Network got started and what uh really brought it into being you give some background on that appreciate it well it's a long story but I
'll try to tell it to you real quick in 1973 the Lord began to give me books to write and as a result of those books our sisters printed them and we gave them away and people began to ask me to give talks and um so I did and got invited to a channel in Chicago Illinois uh that was a Protestant uh television network and I was invited to a talk show and uh in the studio as I walked in the studio like this one only much much much much smaller um I realized how small it was and I said wow to myself
I said it doesn't take much to reach the mates you know was small I said Lord I got to have one of these I didn't think it was asking too much and but I thought what would you do with it you know so I came home and I got to cut this short you know but I came home made a tape it was a disaster oh it was terrible I mean really bad bad I look like Grandma MOA sitting in a rocky chair and most of you are too young to know Andy Gump but that's how I look and I was ready to dunk it you know and the si
ster said no mother you can do it I okay one more time I'll try well I did but then I didn't know what to do then I a tape about this big in my hand I didn't know what to do with it so I asked a friend of mine and she said well why don't you send it to CBN so they called me I was surprised she brought it there they called me in two weeks and said mother um we saw your tape and we think it's very good I said you do said yes can you make 60 of them I said oh [Laughter] sure you know what it means
to make 6 half hour show I didn't but I thought well why not try so we we found a place and I made 60 shows sent them to him was on another series when I saw a synopsis of a movie called the word Blasphemous movie depict Jesus as a false prophet so I noticed that that Network I at was going to air it so I asked to see the manager like are you going to air this movie he said yes I said you Christian he said yes I thought you you were blasphemous this movie oh he said do you think God cares well t
hat time I was ready to I yes he car and I care are you going to air it or not anyway he said he was and I walked out of the studio I told him I would not air my programs I would no longer make programs or air them on his station he said to me you leave this station you're off a television oh no I don't need you I only need God I'll build my own and that's what you call having a big [Laughter] mouth but I just didn't have the slightest idea what to do and that's we made it we built it we did bui
ld the studio I came home I told her s sisters and that that morning we decided to build a garage and when I told them I would know what to do I said where can I build a studio and they said garage said ah garage so I went down and I said to the contractor was already digging a foundation and I said hold it he said what's the matter I said we're not going to build a garage he said what you got a Bild I said a television Studio he said what I said television Studio we did we did the wonderful sto
ry I have a book on it you had to get one it shows all the Wonders wonders of God's Providence Providence unbelievable Providence he wanted this network for you in these serious times we have another call hello hello Mother Angelica yeah my name is kman and I'm from B New Jersey wonderful and I have to tell you right off the bat that my wife Francis and myself absolutely love you and adore you you're a big inspiration to us thank you thank you Jesus Mother Angelica I I work in a big firm at Wall
Street and uh I I live in the corporate world so to speak and I don't always go by uh how Corporate people act to certain things and I was just wondering when you have a tough day and and you don't want to be jealous and you don't want to be mad or anything like that is there a certain type of prayer you could pray to God Andor St Joseph to help you get through a tough time well you've already been Victorious by the fact as you said you don't want to that's very key uh you don't want to feel yo
u said jealous you don't want to feel anger that's number one very important that tells me and tells Jesus that isn't in your heart it's up here when you're aware now you may not be aware for a few minutes or a few hours that you have a a bad disposition over somebody or you're jealous then say Jesus I'm sorry but that's me and help me not to be jealous again and pray for that person you're jealous of just short prayer I don't know how as a broker New York you have any time you ever see this uh
exchange don't they look like a bunch of nuts you know I I never saw such a distraught group of people the funny part is to me that somebody somewhere knows when they're going this way and this way and that way and this way it's amazing the country survives I wouldn't be jealous of anybody we're all created by God for a special reason to have a special degree of Glory in his kingdom he promised us that he would go and prepare a place for us just for you and nobody is like you there's been nobody
in the world from Adam and Eve to now like you is that awesome and there'll be nobody like you after you you're youi all of you in Snow Country there not to a big blizzard there's not two flakes of snow it look like and what do you do uh snow and God says oh I'm going to make every fake different I hate to walk on them you know they're all different so don't it's okay we can't help what we feel and I'm glad to say you don't want that's a big step so just be simple be gentle with yourself you co
uld say it's a Michael prayer but oh I don't think you have time in that kind of business to say it's a Michael prayer sometimes you could be I got a little book well I didn't have it a the lord gave me it's called ad Li with the lord it's for people just like you what is it $5 I got the vice president here to tell me what it cost $5 you're a broker did I hear him right so get that little book I'll send it to you and just look at it and you'll come up with a brand new way of talking to God we ha
ve another call hello hello where are you from Triangle Virginia and what is your question well mother I just wanted to say I love you and I love all the sisters and all the brothers and I was wondering how did the brothers start like how did you think of their order I really didn't I really don't think much why am I might say in here oh dear what I meant was I never thought of beginning a network we never thought of a a brother Brotherhood but the Lord asked me to do that 1977 78 and um it took
time because I I always wait for the Lord if if I feel the Lord is telling me to do something I wait for him to open a door see I I don't want to fall into presumption so I wait for him to open the door sometimes it takes a couple years for him to open a door it's soon for him but it's a long time for me and so finally did begin to open a door and we try to take advantage of every door he opens sometime at the closet door you know there's nowhere to go but out again but sometime God needs time
before he can really tell me what to do we not ready you not to realize that when you're praying for poor Sinners or your family your kids they not may not be ready to listen to God you got to keep praying but he's working on them he's working you got to pray you got to wait like God Waits and so we we just began when God opens a door and we got one brother after another we had our problems you know and now we have wonderful wonderful brothers and holy priests and holy Brothers without them this
network couldn't be because how would you take care all these wonderful pilgrims see when they come huh how do they hear sometimes those preach your confessions all day people lined up you know none that would be and sometimes you know it look it seems like God is putting the cart before the horse no it got cotton horse all in his mind see because you're not ready for the horse he put the cart first and that's what happen the brothers have a great mission to teach to say Mass to hear confession
s to give all kinds of Retreats and healing services and benediction and listen to the heartaches of the people and they need to do a lot in media now they're beginning this year after 10 years you know they're beginning to be floor directors and on cameras so that they always outreaching you we have another call hello hello Mother hey where are you from this is Rita from BB Ohio wonderful I think you're wonderful uh I know you were so honored to meet our Holy Father and I wondered have you ever
met um Mother Teresa I spent uh we were on there were one two three four of us I think at least three of us going to Italy we had founded a little Monastery there and we also founded a uh recording studio that had six recording studios where we made 20,000 tapes in 20 languages or 10,000 tapes in 20 languages and we were on our way to Rome and the uh stewardess or the woman at the gate I guess it was she came to me and she said we're going to put you in all of you in first class cuz Mother Tere
sa is there and I think the only person in first class was the president of the World Bank and I noticed she stayed as far away from mother trca and I as [Laughter] possible but anyway she and I and the sister spent eight hours together and it was a a memorable time we have another call hello hello Mother yes where are you from Pennsylvania wonderful what is your question well I have a couple of questions um one is how did you become interested in becoming a nun and did you know that was your ca
lling and how can I like do something to become a nun like I don't know how to explain it but I'm only 14 years old and I really want to be a nun when I'm older you want to be one yeah good for you I hated it when I was a kid I never wanted to be a nun I really never did um but I I didn't choose to be a n God chose me when I was healed I think I told you that before of a stomach kment I knew for the first time and I was in my late teens 18 perhaps 19 and I was here and I was a c a nominal Cathol
ic we went to church Easter Christmas I I knew God I believed everything that I could recite the question and the answer but I didn't know Jesus I didn't know Jesus I didn't know he knew me he loved me he cared for me me me but when when I got healed I knew there was something different he did know me just like he knew zakus he loved me like he loved zakus and he invited me he called me to serve him and the only way I knew is I used to started making stations to the Cross after I was healed afte
r work and I had made my stations and I knelt before the the P the sorrowful mother and I when I knelt down I knew at that moment I knew I had a vocation I didn't know where and I tried very hard to answer a few uh different uh uh orders but I they wouldn't they didn't want me because my grades were so bad that's why people think I'm so smart I worked hard for my FS boy was down the scale and I'm not excusing myself but when you're hungry and cold very poor and you're one one uh one parent famil
y you're not interested in the capital of Iowa you're interested only in survival I didn't know God see I'm afraid I'm not a good example of how to get a vacation but I think if you want to to be a n that's already a beginning a beginning and you have to ask our lady every day say sweet mother if if I'm called to serve your son please show me the way and she will go to mass say your Rosary every day most important I would think also not most important is to begin to read the lives of the Saints
good books good spiritual books prepare your heart put it in the right direction if you have a vocation you'll know it one day like I did we have another call hello hello Mother Angelica yes yeah my name is guy actually I'm from West Palm Beach Florida uhhuh and I'm going through a difficulty right now and my marriage of 16 years is ending up in a divorce and out of that marriage three wonderful children were born M and I was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church even though I do believe in the
existence of the might the Lord and I know he's real I want to know why is this wrong that he it seemed to me it's only when I'm in trouble that I seek his heal I want to know if it is wrong to do so and if he still going to listen to my prayer oh I you know what the Lord said one day he said when a sinner repents all of Heaven rejoices you make them very happy up there see because you're coming back to Jesus unfortunately it may have taken a divorce to get you back huh you always have an opport
unity to go back and come back to Jesus always you should never never never uh despair I didn't know Jesus until I got sick and I was healed everybody sometimes those of us that are stubborn whatever we we have a tendency not to need God until a need is there that's unfortunate but God loves you very special and maybe with this trial you're suffering you'll begin to pray you'll go back to Jesus you'll go back to our lady ask him to mend this marriage ask him to mend this deep deep hurt and go to
confession show Jesus that you really want to change you really want to change You Really Want Jesus to change your heart to change your wife's heart and and you don't want to just go there now because you got an intention you want to use this opportunity well we ran out of cough dot uh anybody got one you want to use this opportunity to come back to to Jesus see oh he hears your prayer he will always always hear your prayer the worst sinner in the world when Teresa St Teresa the Little Flower
wanted to save souls and she heard this man was going to be hung or beheaded I forget what it was because he killed um a man and a woman and he was very very angry he didn't want a priest around and she prayed and prayed and prayed and then she read be as he' gone up the Gill or The Hangman's news whatever he kissed the crucifix he was sorry thank you he was sorry see how quick so please let this terrible pain that you suffer in your heart and your wife too don't forget She's suffering too be an
occasion for you to come back to Jesus well we only have three minutes left if there's a zakus out there who had the bundle he wants to lift from his sinful Soul I'm here if you have half nobody owes me anything so you can't give me for time back but we need you you he need you and I need you I just got a little notes there it says a caller was upset because you called him a Jew he wasn't a bad man but he was a son of Abraham Jesus called him that he was a son of Abraham the Lord said that he w
asn't a bad man but he did still but the Lord loved him a lot that's not being anti-semitic my best friends are Jews Italians Portuguese Spanish and every other nationality so not like over sensitive about the scriptures the man was a tax collector but he was had a heart the heart of someone who was readily repentant now I can't afford not to remind you that this network depends entirely upon you if one of you every one of you listening gave 25 cents in one month I wouldn't ask you again for any
thing for 5 years wouldn't that be wonderful 56 million homes in this country watch this network even a quarter a piece would be too much I wouldn't want it please you need somebody like me to make you [Laughter] miserable you need somebody like this network to teach you to make you repentant to tell you how much God loves you and how much you need him and so be generous will you put us between your gas and electric bill c a big big bundle to keep this coming into your home well we're going to b
e back with Jeff gaven tomorrow night we'll have a lot of fun and teach you a lot Jesus loves you don't forget [Music] it [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]
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