Tag: angels
Angels, Shepherds and Sheer Joy
The presence of the angels in Advent is the presence of the supernatural pressing in on the natural. Angels crowd the Advent story, and their presence culminates in the throng of angels who appear to the shepherds on the hill outside Bethlehem. The angelic presences pushing in on the ordinary world come first to the… Read More ›
Angels on Tape?
It’s the angelic time of the year (really, isn’t every time?), and thanks to the internet, there’s more information — and more claims of encounters with them — than ever. For many years, we’ve had articles on “mysterious strangers” who show up to help someone, often with an unusually bright countenance, smiling happily, or serious… Read More ›
U.S. Marine Saved by Saint Michael
Dear Mom, I am writing to you from a hospital bed. Don’t worry, Mom, I am okay. I was wounded, but the doctor says that I will be up in no time. But that’s not what I have to tell you, Mom. Something happened to me that I don’t dare tell anyone else for fear… Read More ›
All Holy Angels
Revelation 12:7-12; John 1:47-51 The monastic order is at times likened to the “angelic life.” Most assuredly, this is no reference to monks being angels or living in a type of claustral paradise, but it does tell us something about the nature of the Christian life, for generally, what can be said of monks, can… Read More ›
Feast of the Guardian Angels: A Story
If you should be in any danger, of soul or body, call on your Guardian Angel; and I assure you that he will help you and free you. St. John Bosco In the wee hours of the morning Dr. Brown was jarred from sleep by the insistent ringing of the phone. He remembers groggily groping… Read More ›
Angels? Angels! Do they exist?
Of course. But like all phenomena, we must be cautious. Also, open. Back in 2007 one man named Scott from Rockford, Michigan told a site devoted to the miraculous, “I was reading your web site, and wanted to share this photo of a angel with my son [left]. “This picture was taken the afternoon before my son… Read More ›
Angels: God’s messengers of his redeeming will
1. Today is Easter Monday, traditionally called “Monday of the Angel”, because angels appeared beside the women and the Apostles with a significant role in the extraordinary event of the Resurrection. It was precisely an angel who addressed the first message from the empty tomb to the women who had come to finish the burial… Read More ›
What the Lord has lost on my account
[God] had made only two noble creatures who were sharers in reason and capable of blessedness: angels and human beings. Yet on my account he has lost many of the angels and all of the human beings. Therefore, so that they may know that I love the Father, let those whom he seems somehow to… Read More ›
Padre Pio’s Angelic Helper
Once a person was accepted as Padre Pio’s spiritual child, he would never abandon them, no matter what danger they were in. Even if he did not visit them personally, they would receive his help through his Guardian Angel. Cecil Humphrey-Smith, a well known gentleman from England, is Padre Pio’s spiritual child. Whilst in Italy,… Read More ›
Pope Benedict says his guardian angel allowed accident to teach him humility
Les Combes, Italy, Jul 29, 2009 / 01:18 pm (CNA).- Pope Benedict XVI said today that his guardian angel did not prevent him from fracturing his wrist earlier this month. He suggested his angel was “certainly following superior orders” in order to use the accident to teach him humility and to provide him with more… Read More ›