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Mother Angelica, foundress of EWTN. / EWTNDenver, Colo., Mar 25, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA).It is tradition for Catholics around the world to participate in the Stations of the Cross each Friday during Lent. However, for EWTN foundress Mother Angelica, it was a daily devotion. EWTN chaplain Father Joseph Mary Wolfe collected Mother Angelica s spiritual guidance that she shared with him into a book titled "Mother Angelica s The Way of the Cross," published by EWTN Publishing. In an interview with EWTN News Nightly, Wolfe discussed the inspiration behind the book, which features actual pictures of the stations then-Rita Rizzo (Mother Angelica s given name) prayed in front of in her hometown of Canton, Ohio, before entering the monastery. It was during a visit to St. Anthony s Church, the church where Rizzo prayed the Stations of the Cross as a teenager in Canton, that Wolfe thought it "would be wonderful if we could take these actual stations that she prayed befo