Fr. Benedict Returns!
Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR (Capuchins of the Franciscan Renewal) was hit and nearly killed in a terrible car accident last January. He's almost 80 and on medicine that keeps his blood from clotting. He was very badly injured in the accident and was unconscious for weeks and on a respirator for months. As he recovered slowly, his Franciscan brothers used their web site to communicate his progress to the world. They started doing this because there were so many people calling the Florida hospital where he was taken, it was threatening to overwhelm the Hospital's phone system, which was a serious problem. You can actually read all the posts they made nearly every day for months. It's a really amazing thing to read. You just can't stop reading pages! Then they started to make videos and put them on the web site.
You have to understand that they received thousands and thousands and thousands of letters from all over the world. EWTN, the Global Catholic Network, is after all the largest religious broadcaster in the world. A lot of people have heard of Fr. Groeschel. Have you?
The doctors said "it's a miracle" about his eventual recovery. EWTN Press Release Millions of people all over the world know and love Fr. Benedict from his 300 programs on EWTN over the years.
(Go here and search for 'groeschel' to listen to one).
There aren't many nearly 80-year olds who would start up a live TV phone-in shows airing on Friday nights. Even fewer after surviving a VERY nearly fatal accident. Well October 24th, Fr. Groeschel is back on the air with a live phone-in show on EWTN:
Maybe you will call and ask Fr. Benedict a question? You can watch his program from here or on EWTN on Shaw Digital channel 249 Sundays from 4-5pm Pacific Time, starting Sunday, October 24th.
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If you have Shaw Digital Cable at home, you can call Shaw customer service and ask them to add channel 249 to your service. Then you can watch EWTN on TV any time 24/7! If you've never seen it before, you will just be amazed the first time you watch it. It's not the same as Christan TV stations which are actually commercial TV because they sell airtime for commercials. No airtime for commercials is available for sale on EWTN.
You can call Shaw, trade in any one of the channnels you never watch, and get EWTN on TV at home. What a change! But make sure you ask for Channel 249 because a lot of the Shaw people don't seem to know it's even there.
A lot of people in Canada and the U.S. worked really hard for over ten years to get EWTN available to us in BC. I'll write more about this sometime. Tell your parents and friends about it. It is a real blessing to have available.
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