Sunday Night Prime

EWTN Mother Angelica used to say, “Holiness consists of four words: the will of God.” In tonight’s episode, “Gaining Merit With God,” host Father Andrew Apostoli of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal will show how we can do God’s will by faithfully cooperating with the graces he gives us. Re-airs Monday at 2 and 9am.
 

The Philosophers’ Bench

EWTN In this 2015 series, Catholic scholars Thomas Howard and Peter Kreeft exchange ideas about life’s meaning. The episodes, day by day: “Lewis, Tolkien and Fantasy”; “The Moral Order or the Tao”; “The Moral Order and Human Sexuality”; “The Humanities”; and “Sensucht: The Inconsolable Yearning.” Encores April 19-23 at 2:30am.

 

10 Towns That Changed America

PBS In this final installment of the three-part series, experts in history and architecture describe the development of 10 planned towns: 16th-century St. Augustine, Fla.; Philadelphia; Salt Lake City; Frederick Law Olmsted’s late-19th-century Riverside, Ill.; Pullman, IlI.; Greenbelt, Md.; Levittown, N.Y.; the Southwest District of Columbia; Seaside, Fla.; and Portland’s Pearl District.

 

Mother Angelica’s Birthday

EWTN At 1pm, Remembering Mother will air, with EWTN Yesterday & Today at 5pm, in honor of Mother Angelica’s birthday.

 

EWTN Live

EWTN Jesuit Father Mitch Pacwa will host Bishop James Conley and Father Robert Matya of Lincoln, Neb., as they discuss the new St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which has more than 6,000 Catholic students. Re-airs 1am and 9am Thursday and 4am Sunday.

 

Memorial Mass for Mother Angelica

EWTN A liturgy in memoriam for EWTN’s foundress will be celebrated at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.

 

Antonio Gaudi

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES This 1986 documentary from the late Hiroshi Teshigahara focuses on the intricacies of design in the projects of the amazingly creative, Barcelona-based Catalan Catholic architect Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926), including residential buildings, the Park Güell, the Colònia Güell’s crypt and the gigantic Sagrada Familia Basilica.
 

Gregorian Chant: The Music of the Angels

EWTN This documentary from EWTN traces the history of Gregorian chant since the reign of Pope St. Gregory the Great, from 590 to 604. Re-airs 11pm Saturday.
 

EWTN on Location: Impact of Re-Defining Marriage on Children and Society

EWTN Marriage and family expert Jennifer Roback Morse, foundress of the Ruth Institute, explains the many disastrous consequences that redefining marriage in the law will have on children, families, schools, churches and all of society. TV-G.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.