Angels are messengers from God to humans. What does it mean that “angel is the name of the office”? If each angel is its own species according to its task, what do angels do? How many are there? How do we know that each of us has a guardian angel?
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L | Listen (Receive the Word via audio or video.)
O | Observe (Connect the passage to your life and recent events.)
Particular angels have responsibilities toward specific nations and geographical locations. Have you thought to add your prayers to the prayers and works of the angels guarding and protecting America, and the state, town, and parish in which you live?
V | Verbalize (Pray about your thoughts and emotions.)
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E | Entrust (May it be done to me according to your word!)
Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Holy Archangels, pray for us. All you Holy Angels, pray for us. Angel of God, guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen. +
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What We Discussed | Show Notes
John of Damascus, An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book II Chapters 3-4
Overview:
Minutes 00:00-12:00 – angel communication; the aevum as the “dwelling place” of the angels according to St. Thomas Aquinas; knowledge of our secret thoughts
Minutes 12:01-24:00 – defining “office”; offices of angels
Minutes 24:01-36:00 – biblical examples of angel messengers to mankind; angel worship forbidden in Canon Law and Scripture
Minutes 36:01-48:00 – the Scriptures and Fathers on guardian angels; biblical examples of angels guardianship of the earth and nations