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February 2017

February 23, 2017

Angels guide the unborn child; Angels: Day 215

Even Roman superstition, says Tertullian, admitted that the unborn child was a human being—otherwise why would...

February 21, 2017

Everyone has a guardian angel; Angels: Day 213

Even children of adultery, says one of the characters in St. Methodius’s Banquet of the...

February 20, 2017

Martyrs like a legion of angels; Angels: Day 212

In a very dangerous time for orthodox Christians and the whole Roman Empire, St. Ambrose...

February 19, 2017

We’re surrounded by protection we can’t see; Angels; Day 211

During a tense time in Milan, St. Ambrose reminds his flock of a story from...

February 18, 2017

Know your angels; Angels: Day 210

A very early Christian writing, The Shepherd of Hermas, gives us the famous image of the...

February 17, 2017

A prayer for help from the angels; Angels: Day 209

St. Gildas the Wise lived in the time after the legendary King Arthur, when barbarians were...

February 16, 2017

Angels saw Christ in the flesh; Angels: Day 208

Theodoret of Cyrus imagines a dialogue between Orthodoxos, the champion of orthodox Christianity, and Eranistes, whose...

February 15, 2017

Only the truth can conquer; Angels: Day 207

Angels don’t lie, says St. Ephrem the Syrian. The message they bring from God is true. And...

February 14, 2017

A glorious subjection; Angels: Day 206

All things are made subject to Christ—but what kind of subjection is this? Not ignoble slavery,...

February 13, 2017

Angels can’t understand the mysteries of salvation; Angels: Day 205

St. Ephrem the Syrian imagines the angels looking all over for God the Son. They look...

February 12, 2017

Angels announced the first and second coming; Angels: Day 204

Angels announced the first coming of Christ in the Incarnation, says St. Leo the Great, and...

February 11, 2017

The angels announce the Ascension; Angels: Day 203

Angels tell the gaping disciples that “this Jesus” has been taken into Heaven. St. Augustine says...

February 10, 2017

Who is the king of glory?; Angels: Day 202

St. Ambrose imagines the twenty-fourth psalm as the dialog of the angels when Christ rose from...

February 09, 2017

Angels proclaim the Resurrection; Angels: Day 201

The women who came to the tomb where Jesus had been buried were granted a vision...

February 08, 2017

The Resurrection amazed even the angels; Angels: Day 200

The angels, says St. Ambrose, were amazed by the Resurrection. Even the hosts of Heaven could not...

February 07, 2017

The angels wondered at the risen Christ; Angels: Day 199

Christ rose to Heaven in his glorified body, says St. Cyril of Alexandria. He imagines how...

February 04, 2017

Angels could set us free; Angels: Day 198

Though angels have often come to aid God’s faithful people, says St. Gregory the Great, they...

February 03, 2017

No angel was worthy; Angels: Day 197

In Revelation, an angel holds a scroll and asks, “Who is worthy to open the scroll...

February 02, 2017

Redeemed from the devil and his angels; Angels: Day 196

In St. Augustine’s time, the Roman Empire was crumbling, and barbarian attacks were the worst...

February 01, 2017

Angels glory in the Cross; Angels: Day 195

The cross was the most shameful method of execution the ancient world could think of. But...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Cross brings us together with the angels; Angels: Day 194

Our sin is what keeps us from being fit citizens of Heaven. But the Cross...

January 30, 2017

Who is the vinedresser?; Angels: Day 193

In the parable of the fig tree, the vinedresser begs the owner not to cut...

January 29, 2017

Is it an angel? Judge by it’s fruits; Angles: Day 192

Satan, St. Paul tells us, disguises himself as an angel of light, and his ministers...

January 28, 2017

Ninety-angels and one lost sheep; Angels: Day 191

OKSt. Cyril of Alexandria suggests an interpretation of Christ’s famous parable of the lost sheep: the...

January 27, 2017

Even Jesus relied on the angels; Angels: Day 190

When he was in the flesh, Jesus himself took his Father’s orders through the angels,...

January 26, 2017

Lower than the angels, but served by them; Angels: Day 189

When Christ was a humble Galilean carpenter, says St. Ambrose, he was still Lord of all...

January 25, 2017

God leads us past the angels to himself; Angels: Day 188

The angels are immortal and blessed, says St. Augustine, but it’s not their nature that...

January 24, 2017

Christ was made less than angels; Angels: Day 187

Arguing against heretics who denied that the Son was equal to the Father, St. Ambrose...

January 23, 2017

Demons recognize Christ but do not know him; Angels: Day 186

Christ revealed enough of himself to the demons so that they would fear and obey him,...

January 22, 2017

At his humblest, Christ was served by angels; Angels: Day 185

There’s no contradiction, says St. Ambrose, between saying that Christ was humble and saying that he...

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