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August 2016

August 22, 2016

There is an order in heaven, Angels: Day 032

There is an order in heaven Arguing against the heretic Jovianus, St. Jerome explains that there...

August 21, 2016

Angels are kept alive by God, Angels: Day 031

Angels are kept alive by God A particularly poetic passage from Dionysius the Areopagite tells...

August 20, 2016

Immortally mortal and mortally immortal, Angels: Day 030

Immortally mortal and mortally immortal Both human beings and angels are mortal in a certain...

August 19, 2016

The angels’ immortality depends upon God’s will, Angels: Day 029

The angels' immortality depends upon God's will The angels are immortal, says St. Ambrose, but...

August 18, 2016

Angels are immortal by grace, not by nature, Angels: Day 028

Angels are immortal by grace, not by nature Attempting to define what an angel is,...

August 17, 2016

Angels have knowledge through the Creator, Angels: Day 027

Angels have knowledge through the Creator Like us, says St. Augustine, angels know things in...

August 16, 2016

Angels are limited; the Spirit is not, Angels: Day 026

Angels are limited; the Spirit is not Against those who would relegate the Holy Spirit...

August 15, 2016

Angels are spiritual, but still limited, Angels: Day 025

Angels are spiritual, but still limited An angel, says St. John of Damascus, is not limited...

August 14, 2016

Like the angels, but different, Angels: Day 024

Like the angels, but different St. Gregory Nazianzen says that we were created as a...

August 13, 2016

Angels know and do God’s will immediately, Angels: Day 023

Angels know and do God's will immediately God spoke the law to humans in a...

August 12, 2016

What angels do, Angels: Day 022

What angels do St. John of Damascus admits that there are many things we can’t know...

August 11, 2016

The armies of God, Angels: Day 021

The armies of God The angels are God’s armies, says St. Gregory the Great, because...

August 10, 2016

Angels never lose the vision of God, Angels: Day 020

Angels never lose the vision of God Angels are limited in place: they cannot be...

August 09, 2016

The angels serve for their own benefit, Angels: Day 019

The angels serve for their own benefit St. Irenaeus indulges in some speculation about the...

August 08, 2016

Angels derive their honor from worshiping God, Angels: Day 018

Angels derive their honor from worshiping God An angel is a glorious being, says St....

August 07, 2016

Angels are unchangeable because they love God; Angels: Day 017

Angels are unchangeable because they love God The nature of angels is changeable, says St....

August 06, 2016

A hierarchy of merit – or demerit; Angels: Day 016

A hierarchy of merit - or demerit The hierarchy of angels, Origen says, must be...

August 05, 2016

Angels are holy because of the Spirit; Angels: Day 015

Angels are holy because of the Spirit Though Scripture does not explicitly mention the creation...

August 04, 2016

The angels earned their roles in the hierarchy; Angels: Day 014

The angels earned their roles in the hierarchy Origen, speculating about the different orders of...

August 03, 2016

Myriads of myriads; Angels: Day 013

Myriads of myriads The number of angels is simply unimaginable, says the speculative philosopher Dionysius the...

August 02, 2016

How many kinds of angels are there?; Angels: Day 012

How many kinds of angels are there? We commonly mention nine kinds of angels, but...

August 01, 2016

The orders of angels; Angels: Day 011

The orders of angels St. John of Damascus summarizes the teaching of Dionysius the Areopagite, who...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

How the Bible describes angels; Angels: Day 010

How the Bible describes angels Scripture, says Dionysius the Areopagite, uses symbolic imagery (in Ezekiel...

July 30, 2016

Descriptions of angels are figurative; Angels: Day 009

Descriptions of angels are figurative The writer we call Dionysius the Areopagite, beginning a work...

July 29, 2016

Heavenly beings as well were made by the Word; Angels: Day 008

Heavenly beings as well were made by the Word Interpreting Psalm 45, St. Augustine imagines...

July 28, 2016

The creation of angels; Angels: Day 007

The creation of angels Genesis doesn’t tell us explicitly when the angels were created, says St....

July 27, 2016

Some truths about the angels remain a mystery; Angels: Day 006

Some truths about the angels remain a mystery St. Augustine addresses the question of whether...

July 26, 2016

We’re part stone, part angel; Angels: Day 005

We're part stone, part angel A human being, says St. Gregory the Great, is in...

July 25, 2016

The three kinds of intelligence, Angels: Day 004

The three kinds of intelligence St. Gregory of Nyssa remembers the opinions of his sister,...

July 24, 2016

We exist because God knows us, Angels: Day 003

We exist because God knows us God has angel messengers, says St. Augustine, but they...

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