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December 2016

December 22, 2016

Are Christians atheists?; Angels: Day 154

One of the most common charges against the first Christians was that they were atheists! Well,...

December 21, 2016

How to earn the angels’ help; Angels: Day 153

Magical incantations won’t earn you the help of the angels, says St. Augustine. What does earn us...

December 20, 2016

Only devils receive sacrifices; Angels: Day 152

Even if you think you’re worshiping angels, says St. Augustine, the only beings that receive your...

December 19, 2016

Make no sacrifices to angels; Angels: Day 151

The more a being loves God, says St. Augustine, the less that being wants any of...

December 18, 2016

Satan takes on all shapes; Angels: Day 150

In St. Augustine’s time, there were still many pagans who tried to find enlightenment in...

December 17, 2016

Angels want us to be immortal and happy; Angels: Day 149

The angels want us to be as happy as they are, says St. Augustine. That’s...

December 16, 2016

Worshiping idols is worshiping demons; Angels: Day 148

St. Augustine says that the only reason demons seduced us into worshiping them was because they...

December 15, 2016

Let them laugh; Angels: Day 147

Even devils can sometimes perform apparent miracles, says St. Augustine, and if a rumor started that...

December 14, 2016

Demons can’t really give us prosperity; Angels: Day 146

Pagans complained that neglecting their gods made Rome decline. St. Augustine replies that, even if it...

December 13, 2016

Don’t be surprised by demons’ tricks; Angels: Day 145

The evil angels can put on a good show, says St. Augustine. But that doesn’t mean...

December 12, 2016

Worship God, not angels; Angels: Day 144

St. Augustine explains why we don’t worship angels. Just as Paul and Barnabas refused to be...

December 11, 2016

Angels want us to worship God, not them; Angels: Day 143

The Name of God is wonderful and powerful, says St. John Chrysostom. It’s the only name...

December 10, 2016

Angels don’t want our worship; Angels: Day 142

Some human beings are called “gods” even in the Bible, says St. Augustine - although of...

December 09, 2016

Learn to recognize Satan in disguise; Angels: Day 141

Satan can transform himself into an angel of light, says St. Augustine. If he does, we...

December 08, 2016

Giving the devil his due; Angels: Day 140

Each of us, says Rufinus of Aquileia, will get the reward we have earned in the...

December 07, 2016

Lord, who is like you?; Angels: Day 139

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you to worship idols, or nature, or even angels, says St....

December 06, 2016

Angels don’t stand between us and Christ; Angels: Day 138

Like many Christian interpreters, St. Augustine sees Psalm 24 as a description of Christ’s triumphal ascent...

December 05, 2016

Against Principalities and Powers; Angels: Day 137

As long as we’re sinners, says St. Augustine, we’re slaves to the devil and his angels....

December 04, 2016

Let false hope perish; Angels: Day 136

Continuing his meditation on Job’s cursing the day he was born and the night he was...

December 03, 2016

Keep the creed all your life; Angels: Day 135

St. Cyril of Jerusalem advises his students to memorize the creed word for word, and to...

December 02, 2016

Judge the message, not the messenger; Angels: Day 134

St. Clement of Alexandria tells us that even the devil can speak the truth when it...

December 01, 2016

Helping a heretic escape false angels; Angels: Day 133

When asked for advice on dealing with a heretic who claimed to have revelations from angels,...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Angels are bound to the Gospel: Angels: Day 132

The Donatists were a schismatic sect that called itself the only true Church. St. Augustine warns...

November 29, 2016

Don’t listen even to an angel preaching heresy; Angels: Day 131

St. Paul warned the Galatians not to listen even to an angel from Heaven if...

November 28, 2016

Angels hate chastising us; Angels: Day 130

The angels are sometimes ministers of God’s just chastisement. But they don’t like it, St. Ambrose...

November 27, 2016

Being punished is not an evil; Angels: Day 129

Are the angels evil when they punish sinners? No, says Dionysius the Areopagite: what is evil...

November 26, 2016

Angels are avenging powers; Angels: Day 128

Although the good angels want nothing more than our salvation, sometimes they must be the instruments...

November 25, 2016

Pursued by the angel of the Lord; Angels: Day 127

A terrifying image from Psalm 35 provokes St. Augustine to meditate on how God punishes. When...

November 24, 2016

The will of God is the cause of everything; Angels: Day 126

St. Augustine argues that the will of God is ultimately the cause of everything that happens...

November 23, 2016

Even magic come’s from God’s will; Angels: Day 125

The magicians of Pharaoh, says St. Augustine, were able to duplicate some of the plagues by...

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