Posted on 09/10/2016 4:50:56 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
.- During the general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis blessed a framed picture of Mother Angelica, the foundress of EWTN.
“She's up there (in heaven) because she was a great woman,” the Holy Father said Sept. 7 to the EWTN employees who will now take the picture to their new offices to be opened in Cologne.
The director of EWTN in Germany, Martin Rothweiler, commenting on the meeting with the Pope, said that he blessed the picture with “great cordiality and sympathetic feeling.”
This is not the first time the Holy Father has referred to Mother Angelica.
In February he sent her a blessing while traveling to Mexico; in March he blessed another picture of the religious, and in July he commented that she was “a holy woman” in a meeting with an American priest who currently lives in Rome.
The beloved and well remembered religious died March 27 at 92 years of age.
Why would anyone bless a picture? Always thought blessings were for the living, not objects?
ø needn’t worry for his legacy where this nincompoop Pope is concerned.
How nice. There are so many holy people, living or recently deceased, who may someday be canonized. I was standing at a religious-goods stall this afternoon next to a Missionaries of the Poor brother who was looking at holy cards. I wanted to ask him if he expected someday to be looking at cards of Father Ho Lung, his order’s founder (who is in his 80s now).
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