This is such a beautiful testimony from EWTN’s foundress, Mother Angelica!
In a stirring short video, EWTN foundress Mother Angelica describes a stirring encounter with the “poorest of the poor” when she visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico.
Mother Angelica says the entire experience “edified” her. She explains that the “poorest of the poor…had such a light in their eyes.”
She saw this not because they walked on their knees, but because they “hungered and thirsted for God.” Their extreme poverty gave them complete spiritual freedom and nothing “held them down.”
Watch Mother Angelica’s beautiful testimony about her visit to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the EWTN video below:
@ewtnmedia Mother Angelica said the pilgrims at Guadalupe—many of them the poorest of the poor—had a light in their eyes because they hungered and thirsted for God. Nothing held them back. Nothing weighed them down. Today, on the Feast of St. Juan Diego (December 9), we remember the humble saint who received Our Lady of Guadalupe’s message. May his simplicity, faith, and total trust inspire us to seek God with the same freedom of heart.
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The full text of the EWTN video reads,
“When I went to Mexico, I was extremely edified. You see these people coming from everywhere, the poorest of the poor, and they had such light in their eyes. They were walking on their knees to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. They had definitely had something a lot of people missed. Was it the walking on their knees? No. They hungered and thirsted for God. Everything was taken away from them. They lived on little. They ate little. And so they were free. They thirsted for God. There was nothing holding them back and nothing holding them down.”
As of this writing, the Mother Angelica video has generated over 200,000 views, almost 40,000 likes, and almost 200 comments on TikTok.
Here’s how some users responded to Mother Angelica’s testimony:
One user said,
“As a Catholic of Irish descent, I feel Mexicans set an excellent example for the rest of us. Hermanos y hermanas en Cristo Nuestro Señor.”
Another person said,
“As an atheist, this is why I never disrespect religious people. Nor do I ever talk badly about religion, because some people, it’s all they have. What drives them and keeps them going. And I respect that.”
Someone else added,
“As someone who has done this walk, it was one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it was also the most rewarding thing to be able to experience it.”