UPDATE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2002, 4:00PM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME

MOTHER ANGELICA OUT OF INTENSIVE CARE, CONTINUES THERAPY

Irondale, AL (EWTN) - Doctors treating Mother Angelica at a Birmingham hospital have moved her from Intensive Care to a private room while she continues to recover from a brain hemorrhage and stroke she suffered on Christmas Eve.

After a two-hour operation that night to remove a blood clot from her brain, Mother was left with a partial paralysis on the right side of her body and impairment in speech. The 78-year-old Foundress of EWTN is undergoing physical and speech therapy to improve these conditions.
Doctors will decide in the next few weeks whether Mother should continue therapy at a rehabilitation center or at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama.
In the meantime, the Nuns at the monastery are asking people to keep praying for Mother's complete recovery. 

In the one week that a Spiritual Bouquet for Mother Angelica has been available on EWTN's web site (www.ewtn.com), more than 100,000 Rosaries, 16,000 Novenas, 55,000 Masses, 64,000 Holy Communions, 24,000 Holy Hours and more than 177,000 Lord's Prayer have been pledged.
Mother Vicar, Sister Mary Catherine, said, "We are so grateful to the thousands of people who have offered prayers for Mother Angelica's Spiritual Bouquet."