[music] Man: "Mother Angelica Live!" brought to you from the Eternal Word Television Studios in Birmingham, Alabama. [music] <i>Mother: See in you, the love,</i> <i>the compassion of Jesus.</i> <i>The most glorious work of all,</i> <i>to praise God in His Kingdom.</i> <i>Anyone moved by the Spirit...</i> <i>Anyone who lives in love,</i> <i>lives in God</i> <i>and God lives in Him.</i> [music] <i>What a wonderful thing</i> <i>is our Church.</i> <i>This whole network</i> <i>is built on trust.</i> <i>The essence of evangelization</i> <i>is to tell everybody,</i> <i>"Jesus loves you!"</i> <i>We're all called</i> <i>to be great saints.</i> <i>Don't miss the opportunity!</i> [applause] Mother: And that's exactly what we're going to talk about. My producer this evening said, "Mother, you told the people last week that you were going to teach them how to read the Bible," right? All: Right. Mother: Okay, that's what we're going to do. So a lot of people read the Scriptures like a newspaper or a book, regular spiritual book. I'll just pretend now, well, I'll just think and tell you what I think people or how most people read the Scriptures. For example, now if we're talking here about the parable of the lamp in Mark 4:21. Now, some people read the Scripture like this, "And he said to them, (monotone) 'Would you bring in a lamp and put it under a tub or under a bed? Surely you will not put it, you'd put in on a lamp stand, for there is nothing hidden that must not be disclosed and nothing kept secret except you brought to light and if anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.'" (audience laughs) Is that how you do it, like a newspaper? Some people just kind of read it and they think, "I don't understand it," and they go on. But I think if you want to read, especially the New Testament, in the New Testament you got to put your imagination. God gave you an imagination. Your imagination creates. You're made in the image of the Eternal Father, creates. You can't create anything; you can't paint a picture if you don't have an imagination. Otherwise, you would stand in front of a canvas and it would be blank before and blank after cause your mind is blank. You'd have nothing on the canvas. Now, women have a very vivid, extremely vivid imagination. You say, "Oh no, I don't have an imagination." Oh yeah, boy. You pass a woman you knew 20 years ago, she didn't recognize you and she passes you by. After all, you did change in 20 years--you got fatter or skinnier, you got black hair or white hair. So she doesn't know. She passes you by. What happens to you? By the time you get home, you have a three-act play in your head, (audience laughs) right, a three-act play? You know exactly why. You remember something that happened 20 years ago, and the poor woman didn't even see you. That's what you call a vivid imagination. Well, God gave us a vivid imagination, but not to use it for ill--not to sit around and make up things that are not true but our imagination can and should be used when we read the Scriptures. So I am going to look at St. Mark's Gospel at a very simple incident in Our Lord's life, very miraculous. If you have your Scripture with you, you can look at the Mark 4:35, and it says, 35th verse, "The calming of the storm." Now, you all know that, don't you. Okay, I'm going to read it like most people read it-- not all of them but some of them. (monotone) "It was the coming of evening that same day He said to them, 'Let us cross over to the other side.' "Now, leaving the crowd behind, they took Him just as He was in the boat and there were other boats with them." (audience laughs) Do you have any idea what I just said? (audience laughs) No. You heard something but you don't know what it was. Now we're going to use this wonderful gift that God gave us. "With the coming of evening," now you want to prepare your mind for a little exercise of imagination. What do you see when you see evening? Twilight, right? It's getting a little dark. So now already you have a picture, right? Do you have a picture? Okay. It says, "He said to His Apostles, 'Let us cross over to the other side.'" So obviously you see a boat, or two or three boats, and He wants to go to the other side. Now, what does He do? Any idea what He's going to do next? He's going to get in the boat, right? Now, isn't that a better picture than reading it the way I read it before? "And leaving the crowd behind"--now, you have to realize on the seashore, oh, it may have been 4 or 5 thousand people listening to Him. Most of you, and myself included, would have stuck around till they all went home, right? But Our Dear Lord was such an evangelist, had such is zeal. Now, all of a sudden, He's going to get in the boat and He's leaving the crowd, leaving it. Now, that brings us to a lesson. The lesson is, how well do we leave things behind? I bet you carry today something that happened 20 years ago, 50 years ago. I won't want to tell your age. I won't say more than 50 years ago, (audience laughs) but you still carry this burden. You have never, never left it behind. If you use your imagination while you're reading the Scriptures, it not only gives you a picture but it speaks to your heart. Why, why do I keep everything in my? It's gone, it's dead. I can't bring it back. I can't do anything about it. It's finished. The Lord left the entire crowd behind and He gets in a boat, "And they took Him just as He was." (laughs) Don't you wonder how that was? You wouldn't think that. They took Him in the boat and there were other boats with them. So it wasn't just one boat. It might have been 5 or 6 boats. And I bet the Apostles were happy to get rid of the crowd. They were hot and tired and they were not patient men. Not that men aren't patient in general but if you've got 5000 people breathing down your neck all day long, (audience laughs) I would suppose you want to get away. They're so happy. Do you ever say, "Oh, finally the Lord heard my prayer." I bet Peter said, "I prayed all day to get out of this thing and now we're finally moving on," a breath of fresh air. Well, they got in the boat and it said, "it began to blow a gale." Wow, a heavy wind-- and it says, "and the waves were breaking in the boat. It was swamped." You got that picture? Isn't that wonderful, hah, all these men in these boats couldn't handle it. The waves were coming, whoosh! Can you see those waves, huh, and that boat shaking up and down and they're getting buckets and they're pulling at the waves, pulling at them. I mean, they're worn out, "But Jesus was in the stern of the boat, His head on a cushion." Now, can you, can you imagine that? Here is this gale and wind and the boat's going around this way and it makes a little headway and then it goes this way and the waves are coming in. And He's going... (snores) (audience laughs) All of a sudden here comes another wave, whoosh! (snores) dead--dead to the world. I can see Peter getting a little edgy. Do you see Peter? All of you married women, (audience laughs) do you ever see your husband, (audience laughs) do you see your husband getting edgy? Do you see him getting edgy? He gets edgy over a lawnmower, let alone a boat full of water. (audience laughs) So here's this--and Peter's getting anxious-- just sound asleep. Peter says to John, "Wake Him up." This is not in Scripture now. What I'm saying now is not in the Book. (audience laughs) I did one of these about a year ago and I got all kind of, "What kind of Bible are you using?" (audience laughs) I'm embellishing it. Why? Because it's a human thing that happened. You just don't get in a boat and walk across the street with it--you just don't do that. This was a gale, a wind, a wave. Now, how many times in your life--now listen, that's why you've got to meditate on Scripture. Don't go zip through it and say, "I read a chapter a day." Well, good for you! (audience laughs) But that's not enough. Do you realize how many times in your life there was a gale, a real wind storm, lightning and all. What was Jesus doing? What did you say to Him? You don't want to tell me. I'll tell you what you said to him cause I've said it myself, "Jesus, wake up? What's the matter, You don't hear me?" We're not aware that the All Loving God hears me. But these men are afraid. They were, what did they do? They're facing the real world. Isn't that what our liberal brother keeps telling us, we have to face the real world? I think the real world stinks at this point. (audience laughs) It stinks, because the real world has lost God. The real world doesn't know God and doesn't want to know God, really doesn't. So we're looking here, and it says, "They were almost swamped, and He was asleep." I can see John, they're getting these little pails and buckets and getting the water out. Peter would say to John, "Wake Him up," and John said, "No, He's tired." Okay, more water out, another gale. "Wake Him up!" (audience laughs) "No!" (audience laughs) More water, another gale. "We're going to drown if you don't wake Him up!" (audience laughs) "Wake Him up yourself!" Now, those are Apostles. Now, there's nothing written in here that says that's how they did it. (audience laughs) I'll make a bet that's how they did it because here's what it says. "Peter woke Him up." like, (make noise,) not, "Yoo hoo. (audience laughs) "We're drowning, Lord. (audience laughs) Got a lot of waves here." (audience laughs) No, it says he woke Him up and said, (yelling) "Master, don't You care? We're drowning!" Oh wow! How often have you said that? Have you said that? Yeah. "Don't You care, Lord?" If there's one thing Our Dear Lord, I think hurts Him is when we say, we accuse Him of saying, "Don't You care? Don't You care?" Well, let's see what happened. "And He woke up." Now, if I was Jesus at that point, I would have woke up one eye at a time, (audience laughs) just to make them more miserable. (audience laughs) I would've gone… (audience laughs) Why? I would've been so upset, because they didn't have faith. But here's what Jesus does. "They woke Him and He woke up and He rebuked the wind and said to the sea," --you have a churning sea-- "Quiet now; be calm." What does that say to each one of us? No matter what our problems are, Jesus can stop it in a second. If He doesn't, then there is great good in it for us, great good, somewhere, to make us more loving, more able to accept God's Will, more patient, more purified to the Kingdom. We don't have here a lasting city, we don't. Now, let's see now what He says. "The wind dropped and the sea was calm." Can you see that? Is your imagination working pretty good? Do you see all of a sudden the wind drops, just (makes noise) no more wind, the sea is not even a ripple--awesome. And what happened? Now, are you under the impression--you've seen this now with your imagination. You feel sorry for the Apostles. How many feel sorry for these Apostles? (audience laughs) You notice how everybody's going this way. (audience laughs) Nobody wants to go this way, "I feel sorry for the Apostles." Well, we would all feel sorry for the Apostles, but what does Jesus say? "Why are you so frightened?" Now, do you think they all had reason to be frightened? Well, don't you think if you're in a small boat, the sails are up, you've taken them down, the water and the boat's going every direction it could go. Do you think you have a reason to be frightened? Ya'll do? No. (audience laughs) (laughs) I got you there. Cause Jesus said, "How was it, why?" He said, "Why are you frightened?" Do you see the demands of God upon us? Our God can demand a lot of us in a tragic situation. Why? Because He knows what Heaven is like and Jesus wants us as close to Him in Heaven as possible. He allows many, many things in our lives. He can say, "Why are you so frightened?" And what else does He say? "How is it, how is it you have no faith?" He didn't say little faith. I mean, we understand that. You're scared to death. Why is it you have so little faith? No, He says, "Why is it you have no faith," no faith? The demands of God are not the demands of man, they're not the demands that we would make on ourselves. I would have thought I did pretty good. At least we knew who to wake up. (audience laughs) But Jesus said, "No, you lacked faith," why? Because they thought with Him in the boat, they would drown. Why? They did not believe He was Son of God. Oh now, that's the whole point, isn't it? How would they drown with the Son of God in the boat? Was that His end? Did He come from the Bosom of the Father, become Man, live in this miserable world filled with jealousy for Him, filled with hatred, filled with every ingratitude, to be drowned in the sea? You see where their lack of faith was? Now, can you apply that to yourself? Oh yes. When we lack faith when we find fault with God, are we not doing what the Apostles did? Are you saying, "Don't you care?" And doesn't He say the same to us, "Why do you lack so much faith? Do you think I brought you to this world after centuries?" Do you realize how many centuries or eons of time God waited for you to be born? Scary, isn't it? And He created you for this particularly time. Before He created you, He saw you in this studio listening to me. How do you like that? (audience laughs) I like it but… (audience laughs) We can't treat God like another man--maybe a little smarter. No, this is God we're dealing with. That's why they lack faith. They did not really believe that in that boat was the Son of God. As a Catholic, when you go before the Blessed Sacrament in your church, do you really believe that's the Son of God, the Most High? If you sat there and just poured out your troubles to Him, do you know He's hearing you? But we're all under the impression God does not know. He knows and the reason He said, "Why are you so frightened?" I went to Detroit over the weekend. First of all, we started here at 7:20. I mean, the airplane left but we didn't get to Atlanta, which was a little over 100 miles, until 10. I could've gone to Europe. (audience laughs) They keep apologizing; "We're very sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but it's too many planes in the air." Then I thought, "Well, why don't we get down?" (audience laughs) My first thought was logical, "If there's too many of us in the air, why don't we all get down?" (audience laughs) But there were so many in the air they just kept following each other around and around and around. Then they say, "We're sorry, ladies and gentlemen, we cannot give you anything to drink because it's too bumpy." Cheapskates! (audience laughs) I thought that was real chintzy. (audience laughs) "We will be down, ladies and gentlemen, in 5 minutes." 20 minutes later, "We're sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but the fog is not lifting." Neither were tempers lifting. Well, we don't all want to have an accident bumping into all these invisible planes that are following each other. So when did we land? Five minutes after our next plane left. I wondered for about 2 or 3 hours that we waited why those couldn't come down but the ones down could go up. (audience laughs) So we've got to the gate. (puffing) Well, I was in a wheelchair and the poor girl was pushing me and Chris was walking as fast as she could, and it left. They're very calm about it. They just said, "Well, we're sorry; it left." "So, you're sorry it left. What do we do now?" "Well, you can take another plane or you can wait for ours for 3 hours." Okay, I could never figure out; I wanted so much to say to the girl, "Well, if the fog was so dense and there's so many of us going around, how did you get them up?" But I couldn't do that cause I don't know anything about planes. But it was an aggravating situation. Then I thought of this little thing and I thought, "Well, Our Lord knows. "For some reason He wanted us He allowed all of this. "There has to be a reason. So if there's a reason, why don't I enjoy these three hours." So what do you do in an airport waiting 3 hours? How do you enjoy 3 hours in an airport? You eat. (audience laughs) Or you drink coffee or you walk around--you do something. So obviously, in God's infinite mind, for some reason we went around and around. Now, we don't have storms at sea but we do have planes on the ground or in the air with something wrong. It's about the same scary kind of situation. I said that to somebody who had a real scary thing. Sometimes these planes will kind of fall and everything went everywhere. The trays were all over the place, the stewardess on the floor. She looked up and she said, "There must be an easier way to make living." (audience laughs) And never though was anyone as close to God as all the people in that plane. Why? They were afraid. And so were these Apostles, terribly afraid. The Scripture shows us a scene, it shows us a live event--this is still alive in the mind of God because in the mind of God, there's no past or future. Each one of us must take a vivid scene like this and apply it to our lives. Here it says, "They were filled with awe and said to one another, 'Who can this be?'" Ah, now we know why Our Lord said, "Why is it you have no faith?" They didn't believe He was the Son of God. Now, why don't we take a little bit of Scripture that is dry bone? Do you want to take some dry-bone Scripture? Well, usually if you open it up anywhere it's dry bones. I mean, you don't always figure out something really nice to, to look at. Okay, we'll take something that's kind of tough-- I mean, you're not going to get excited over. I just opened up to Luke 21:34. Well, I picked it out, so that's it. He says, "Watch yourselves or our hearts will be coarsened with debauchery." We don't like to meditate on that--debauchery, drunkenness and all the rest. Ah, now look what He does. This is not something in Scripture you could imagine, but you can think about it. That's the intellect, now. We just used our imagination. Now, we're using our intellect, "And the cares of life," oh, you know the Lord puts the cares of life with debauchery and drunkenness. (chuckles) Don't you think cares of life is a little bit inferior to debauchery and drunkenness? But the Lord put them together. Why? Now, here you ask yourself a good question, "Why would the Lord do all this?" Because it occupies the mind, see, occupies. What occupies--this is a dry bone. There's not a thing here you can imagine. Oh, it's tough though, cause the intellect has to say, "What are you thinking about? What is the general course of your daily thoughts-- yourself, the world, people, things or God?" "Well, I'm not a nun, you know, or a priest." But Our Lord isn't talking to nuns and priests. He's talking to you and me. I can't go around thinking always the most holiest thoughts but I must control myself that I don't have these kind of thoughts. He said, "Why?" Why doesn't the Lord want us to entertain useless thoughts? I remember--women don't wear hats anymore. It unusual if you see a hat on a woman's head but in my day when I went to church-- which wasn't very often-- inevitably this one woman seemed to follow me like a radar. Wherever I was, she sat right in front. (audience laughs) I couldn't see a thing. Well, what the Lord is saying, "Why worry about that?" All during this program there is a hat right on top of that other camera and I've been figuring out, whose head is that? My mind was not exactly about this Scripture or you. (audience laughs) My mind occasionally drifted over to that brown hat on camera 3 and I thought, "I'm thinking one thing and I'm talking to you... (audience laughs) about something different." How do you like that? Did you ever do that? Woman: Oh yeah. Mother: You do that a lot? Well, I'm doing it right now in front of you. In front of 56 million homes, I'm thinking of that hat while I'm talking to you about God. (audience laughs) We call that a distraction. We're going to have distractions when we pray. I don't care who you are. Then He says, "Why do we want to control our thoughts?" He said, "Because that day will be sprung on you suddenly like a trap." Ohh, this is the Gentle Jesus talking--it's not Angelica. Don't write to me and say, "Oh, Mother Angelica, you're a cruel woman." (audience laughs) They do, you know. I'm here to make you miserable. (audience laughs) That's my job (audience laughs) so that you wake up and you realize that day, what is that day? That day may be sprung on you suddenly like a trap. Now, He's got something your imagination's going to work on, (makes noise) and buddy, it's finished. So all of you out there in debauchery and all this drunkenness and all the cares of this life, what happens if your day is over? "For it will come down," He said, "On every living man on the face of the earth. Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to survive all that is going to happen and to stand with confidence before the Son of Man." Now, there's only one thing here that you can use your imagination with but it's a heavy thing. I hope that sentence-- I'm going to give it to you again; Luke 21:34-36, to wake you up. Some of you listening to me tonight are already drunk. You just happen to put the TV on and there we are. Well, if that moment should come to you tonight, do you think you're going to say, (drunkenly) "Why Lord, how are You? Where am I, Lord? Am I--where am I? Whew, it's getting hot, Lord, (audience laughs) I mean, (whistles,) why am I going down? (audience laughs) Is that what's going to happen? That's what the Lord says, "Stand ready," see, "Stand ready." Well, we have--I hope we have some calls. Do we have a call? No, not yet, okay. Now, that's the way that we should read the Scriptures. We should read the Scriptures sometime with our imagination and sometimes slowly, to say "How does it apply to me?" Don't put it on your neighbor. Did you ever hear a great sermon and you say, "Boy, I wish Annie was here." Well, Annie isn't there. (audience laughs) You are there. Why are we always thinking of somebody else that needs to be converted? You're there or I'm there. I need to be converted, you need to be converted. We all need that, not to blame somebody else for your problem. Sometimes if you really want a lot of place to use your imagination, you can use St. Matthew's Gospel. He was the sinner. Everybody hated tax collectors, very much like you do today. Internal Revenue is the same as Matthew the Publican, no different. They better but Matthew he had a lot of fun. He took 10% for Rome and 15% for himself, Mafia. (audience laughs) They hated him, hated him. But who does Jesus look at and say, "Follow Me." Zacchaeus, senior publican, senior tax collector, a little short guy, ran up a tree. Now, that's nice to imagine, isn't it? Can you see this guy running up a tree cause he was so short? He was tall and stealing, though. But what does Jesus do? Stops under the tree, looks up, knows his name. He says, "Zacchaeus, come down," invites Himself to dinner. Ah, the people said, "If this man were a prophet, He'd know who this is." Zacchaeus runs down that tree, makes reparation. Now, all of that we have to apply to our lives. It isn't enough to know the Scriptures or memorize them. We have to live them. When we fail, maybe we haven't read it right-- like the 6th Chapter of John, which I just opened up to. The next time anybody says the Eucharist is not the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus, say, "Well, I'm sorry, Father, or Sister, obviously you have never read the 6th Chapter of John. We have a call. Hello. Female Caller #1: Hello, Mother. Mother: Hey, hi, where are you from? Caller: I'm from New York. Mother: Wonderful, and what is your question? Caller: Mother, I've been married approximately 10 years and I just found out within the past month that my husband had an affair. I'd like to know, Mother, what you can advise me to do about what to do with my suffering? Mother: Well, is it something past or something now? Caller: I'm sorry, Mother? Mother: Is it something he did way in the past or is it something he's doing now? Caller: Recently. Mother: Recently. Well, that pain is a heavy pain, very heavy pain. First of all, it's neglect; secondly, it's a deep hurt of rejection and the deep hurt of deceit. All of you men that go around having affairs just so you can feel more manly, you have no idea what you cause your wife. There's no rejection like that rejection. There's no hurt like that hurt and you have to realize, honey, that it is a deepest hurt a woman can have. Number 1, I would talk to him about it. I would ask him to go to Confession. I would ask him to stop. You have a right to do those things. Then I would be patient and wait. If he keeps on, you have a grave danger ahead of you. Men that run around having affairs sometimes bring home diseases that are not good and that's a kind of problem you have now that women never had before or not as much. It's a very difficult problem. I would go to a holy priest and get some consolation. I would try to forgive. That's important. Why? Well, because Our Dear Lord forgave His worst enemies and secondly, you need to forgive to get that hatred out of your heart. What you will do, only time will tell. No matter what he does, you must be faithful to the Lord. I would go and sit before the Blessed Sacrament, ask Our Dear Lord to speak to your heart and heal you. My mother had that problem. Every time I went and tried looking for my dad for alimony, somebody else answered the door. But in the end--and I was a religious--it took all those years for him to repent and to say for the first, "I'm sorry." So there's always hope. You may have to be patient, but go to Jesus with that hurt. That hurt of rejection and deceit is something Our Lady suffered from, Our Lord suffered from and now you. So I will pray for you. My sisters will pray for you. I'm sorry. Don't give up. We have another call. Hello. Male Caller #1: Hi, Mother Angelica. Mother: Hi, where are you from? Caller: I'm calling from Middletown, New York. Mother: And what is your question? Caller: first I just wanted to say that I love you very much. Mother: Thank you. Caller: And thank you for all that you do. My question is, my sister and I are very close. She is a non-practicing Catholic. She's not married in the Church. She civilly married to a non-practicing Protestant. She's starting to open up to the faith. She's asking a lot of the questions, but sometimes she doesn't feel supported by her husband. I get the feeling she wants to do the right thing and at times she feels trapped in the situation because she has little children. I was wondering if you could give me some insight or say something to her that could help her make the right decisions concerning this matter. Mother: Does he object to her going to church? Caller: No, no. In fact, she goes to Sunday Mass. Of course, she doesn't receive, she doesn't receive Communion. Mother: It's a start. It's a start. What I would do is tell her to keep on. You can always go to Mass. Some of you cannot go to Communion for many reasons but please don't stop going to Mass. Because you keep that grace coming, that inspiration from the Spirit and to be in the presence of Jesus, you know and to be there humble. But let's not give up on her, honey. You're doing fine. Encourage her to go to Mass, encourage him to go to Mass and God's working on them. If they've gotten that far, God is working on them. Say a rosary for her every day and ask her to say a rosary every day. Don't worry. I think their conversion and getting married into the Church is around a corner. So we'll all pray. We have another call. Hello. Male Caller #2: Hello, Mother Angelica. Mother: Ah yeah, where are you from? Caller: I'm calling from Minnesota. Mother: And what is your question? Caller: And my question is I pray every day and my question to you is, when like I'm at work or just out walking, is it wrong to just speak to God as if I was speaking to my next-door neighbor, telling Him my concerns, my problems, thanking Him for how the day is going? Is it wrong to talk to Him that way or should we do that in formal prayer? Mother: Oh no, no! You talk to Him that way, yes. That's wonderful. That's conversation. Prayer is conversation with God. Talking to Him that way brings you closer together and not only that but it pleases Him because your mind and heart is not willy-nilly somewhere else. It's with Jesus. I wish everybody in the world would talk to Jesus like that. "Good morning, Lord." Some of you can't say a civil word till you have a cup of coffee. (audience laughs) You grope, "Where's my coffee? Where's my coffee?" You never said good morning in your whole life. You said good morning to a cup. (audience laughs) Now, you have to have some caffeine. Well, okay, if you've got to have caffeine to say good morning to God and drink your coffee right away. Say, "Good morning, Lord. "I hope today's better than yesterday. "It was a miserable day, Lord. "I don't know if you understand, but it was a miserable day. "I mean, everything that could happen happened to me. "Could You make it better today? Could You remind me that You're My Friend?" You say, "You talk to God that way?" Yeah, I talk to God that way. Then you say formal prayers. We say the "Divine Office," we have the beautiful Mass, prayers at Mass. There are times--the rosary is a kind of formal prayer. But Jesus wants you to talk to Him. Even when you're reading Scripture, you could say, "Wow, Lord, what did You mean by this? 'It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh has nothing to offer.'" Oh, do you realize how much time and money we spend on the flesh--hair dye, something to take off wrinkles? (audience laughs) Or they must fill them in. Is that what you do when you, you fill them in? (audience laughs) You can't cover them; you must fill them in. Makeup--my mother used to make me make, wear makeup and she'd make me put lipstick on, and I never knew how to do that. She'd say, "For God's sake, can't you even put lipstick on?" (audience laughs) Then she'd come and put it on for me and I felt like my lips were smothery. (audience laughs) I'd go down to the store, (audience laughs) I felt like something terrible was happening to my--like I was suffocating them. All of that money is… Why are we talking about that now? (audience laughs) What was the subject of this whole call? (audience laughs) Huh? Audience: Talking to God. Mother: Talking to God, there you go. Thank you. (audience laughs) But talk to God, even about--well, you don't wear lipstick--but even about things that are totally irrelevant. You're waiting for a red light, "Thank You, Lord." We almost saw a terrible accident today. "Thank You, Jesus, nobody was hurt. It didn't happen, everything's fine." You can talk to God-- and please do. He is Your Best Friend. We have another call. Hello. Female Caller #2: Hello, Mother Angelica. Mother: Yeah, where are you from? Caller: I'm from Maryland. Mother: And what is your question? Caller: Well, myquestion is for my daughter. She's only been married 15 months and her husband has decided that he thinks he's made a mistake and he's asking for a divorce. Being very strong Catholics, she does not want a divorce. She has tried everything, to try counseling and have him try to work things out. She's dealing with the spiritualness of being rejected her whole life, especially with God. I've tried to tell her that God may be doing this because maybe He feels it's the best thing for her. I don't know what's down the road for her. But how do I get her to know that she will be forgiven? Right now she believes that she could never marry again. Mother: But see, sweetheart, she didn't do anything wrong. I'm not too sure what you mean by forgive. She didn't do anything to be forgiven. It's her husband. See she's dealing with a bad decision on his part. So she is hurt. As far as the marriage concern, you need to talk to a canonist. It may be that this man never married her for the right reasons or he didn't marry her because he loved her or he never intended to keep his vows. So please, go and tell her, but she needs to get over this hurt first. With a real marriage, you, if you separate, you can't remarry. You know that. But first of all, find out what was this man's intention? You're talking about not even a year and a half. There's something wrong with him, very, very wrong. I think you need to get-- not only does she need to pray--I wouldn't want her to be as brokenhearted as my mother was for years and years and years and years. She never remarried, but it was one heartache after another. I just want you to get some good, really good holy priest that will help her through this. But she has not done anything wrong unless I'm understanding it's her husband. Is it not true? Her husband is the one that is doing something terribly wrong. There's more to that than meets the eye, as far as he's concerned and need to find that out. Ask to see a canonist. That's not going to help, but she probably loves him. That's a terrible, terrible hurt. Pray for her and ask her to go before the Blessed Sacrament. Jesus will heal her heart. Well, our evening is finished. It went very fast. It did for me anyway, and I hope it did for you. So please remember, this network is brought to you by you. We don't have any great big benefactors. We have only you. You are our sponsors and you are a very important part of God's providence. So when He inspires you-- and I hope He does--and I thank you, all of you, for being so faithful every, every month because Our Dear Lord is trying so hard to reach people around the world, especially our own country because our country is our first love. This is where we live, this is where we were born, most of us and this country has given us wonderful, wonderful opportunities. However, you and I know our beloved country is sliding down. Pray for our president. Pray for all those who have encouraged abortion, especially partial-birth abortion. What a horrible thing before the eyes of God. So please be generous. We love you and God loves you a lot. Please, if you're having trouble or you're in trouble, think of going to Confession. Get that load off of you and allow Jesus to be so new to you on Christmas Eve that you will have a whole new life. Bye now. (applause) [music]
