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“… When man initiates any kind of change, he does so with great fanfare and confusion – but Infinite Love initiates and accomplishes the transformation of finite human beings into sons of God, through Grace – in powerful silence. Below are a few of the treasures I found within. While the book certainly can be read cover-to-cover, I preferred to open it randomly and be surprised by what I would find on the page. This operation would one day lead to the creation of EWTN – the Eternal Word Television Network. By the mid-1970s, the Nuns of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery were printing upwards of 25,000 copies of Mother Angelica’s mini-books and others per day. The included books are His Silent Presence, Jesus Needs Me, Dawn the on the Mountain: The Gift of Dryness in Prayer, His Pain – Like Mine, Spiritual Hangovers, and The Healing Power of Suffering. The manuscript received minor stylistic editing, so its content comes directly from EWTN’s foundress and spiritual mother without significant changes. Mother Angelica wrote each book by hand on a pad of paper while adoring our Lord in Eucharistic Adoration in the monastery’s chapel. Mother Angelica on Suffering and Burnout (EWTN Religious Catalog, $15.00) is a 288-page volume that contains six ”mini-books” written by Mother Angelica and published by Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in the 1970s. It’s packed with spiritual nuggets that address suffering and burnout and get deep into the heart of the matter – you. And I couldn’t imagine her writing about suffering and burnout that would be from the perspective of someone who really knew what it was like to experience those things.ĮWTN’s recently-released Mother Angelica on Suffering and Burnout is written by someone who truly understands those two topics. She was always so filled to overflowing with joy that I couldn’t imagine her succumbing to the weight of suffering. It’s because she was always so filled with energy and vitality that I couldn’t imagine her ever reaching the point of burning out. That’s not because she didn’t work hard – she most certainly did. It was difficult for me to imagine a book by Mother Angelica on suffering and burnout.