It's 'not CNN' and 'certainly not ESPN,' he added to chuckles in the audience. It started in a garage and the main campus in Irondale is still 'not really anything much to look at,' he said. Her operation, EWTN, had a humble nature, he added. Anthony Mary quoted Mother Angelica, saying it was her 'constant reminder' of her 'union with Our Suffering Lord.' This helped her to be in tune with the promptings of the Holy Spirit, he said. After that she lived a 'hidden life' where she was 'frail' and 'weak,' he said. She suffered a stroke in 2001 that forced her off the air.

Mother Angelica also dealt with back pain and used crutches for years and had severe asthma. Anthony Mary said, and then chose a 'life of humility' by responding to her vocation as a cloistered nun. She came from a 'humble' and 'challenging background,' Fr. 'How deeply she loved them,' he said of Mother Angelica and the Apostles, because 'she rejoiced in the weakness of those men' because they were like us, and not perfect.

'Our Lord didn't call the perfect' to spread the Gospel, he noted, but men who were 'old' and 'weak.' Anthony Mary said, because she, like the Apostles, was 'weak' and 'lowly' yet served God faithfully when chosen by Him.

Paul writes that 'God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no man might boast before God.' The reading for the vespers was 1 Corinthians 1:26-31, where St.

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