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September 2016

September 23, 2016

“Not even the angels in Heaven”, Angels: Day 064

"Not even the angels in Heaven" As Scripture tells us, not even the angels in...

September 22, 2016

Even angels don’t see the essence of God, Angels: Day 063

Even angels don't see the essence of God Angels are spiritual beings that live in...

September 21, 2016

Angels confess their ignorance, Angels: Day 062

Angels confess their ignorance Angels see the majesty of God, says St. Gregory the Great,...

September 20, 2016

Even angels can’t really see God, Angels: Day 061

Even angels can't really see God St. Augustine, quoting St. Jerome, tells us that we...

September 19, 2016

To Christ through Christ, Angels: Day 060

To Christ through Christ The truth is the way, says St. Augustine. The only way...

September 18, 2016

The Son has the unceasing praise of angels, Angels: Day 059

The Son has the unceasing praise of angels Christ didn’t perform miracles because he wanted to...

September 17, 2016

Angels know the Father through the Son, Angels: Day 058

Angels know the Father through the Son Only the Son truly knows the Father, says...

September 16, 2016

Angels hide their faces from the Triune mystery, Angels: Day 057

Angels hide their faces from the Triune mystery If Christ, the only-begotten Son, has existed...

September 15, 2016

The vocal silence of God, Angels: Day 056

The vocal silence of God St. Ephrem the Syrian meditates on the mysteriously intimate communication between...

September 14, 2016

Praise and be silent; Angels, Day 055

Praise and be silent The Seraphim and the Cherubim will not even look on God,...

September 13, 2016

Thrice holy, one Lord; Angels: Day 054

Thrice holy, one Lord Making an argument we hear more than once from the Fathers,...

September 12, 2016

The Seraphim surround Christ in the flesh; Angels: Day 053

The Seraphim surround Christ in the flesh Jesus was born in humble circumstances, but the...

September 11, 2016

The Trinity in the hymn of the Seraphim; Angels: Day 052

The Trinity in the hymn of the Seraphim “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of...

September 10, 2016

The face of God is the angels’ Scripture; Angels: Day 050

The face of God is the angels' Scripture We read God’s Word in the Bible....

September 10, 2016

The Seraphim declare the Trinity; Angels: Day 051

The Seraphim declare the Trinity Arguing against the Arians, who insisted that the Son was...

September 08, 2016

Remember you weakness, Angels: Day 049

Remember you weakness St. Augustine probably ventured deeper into the uncharted territories of theology than...

September 07, 2016

Keep speculation in bounds, Angels: Day 048

Keep speculation in bounds There are many things we can try to know about angels,...

September 06, 2016

We can’t understand all the mysteries of Heaven, Angels: Day 047

We can't understand all the mysteries of Heaven On his way to martyrdom, St. Ignatius...

September 05, 2016

Spiritual bodies, Angels: Day 046

Spiritual bodies St. Augustine speculates that angels have a kind of spiritual body that adapts itself...

September 04, 2016

Angels as counselors, Angels: Day 045

Angels as counselors In the hierarchy of angels, says St. Gregory the Great, the lower...

September 03, 2016

Angels bring us the vision of God, Angels: Day 044

Angels bring us the vision of God The speculative philosopher Dionysius the Areopagite says that...

September 02, 2016

Sharing the knowledge of the angels, Angels; Day 043

Sharing the knowledge of the angels Dionysius the Areopagite tells us that the angels see...

September 01, 2016

Degrees of knowledge, Angels: Day 042

Degrees of knowledge Each creature, says St. Ephrem the Syrian, has a degree of knowledge...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

All creation gives thanks to God, Angels: Day 041

All creation gives thanks to God All God’s works give thanks to him, the psalm...

August 30, 2016

“Lord of all” includes the angels, Angels: Day 040

"Lord of all" includes the angels When Peter says that Christ is “Lord of all,”...

August 29, 2016

Everything is under God’s control, Angels: Day 039

Everything is under God's control When all the forces of nature and even the angels...

August 28, 2016

The body as a map of the angels’ mind, Angels: Day 038

The body as a map of the angels' mind In a flight of philosophical fancy,...

August 26, 2016

Each order interprets the order above, Angels: Day 036

Each order interprets the order above Dionysius the Areopagite tells us that the angels on...

August 25, 2016

The orders of angels teach one another, Angels: Day 035

The orders of angels teach one another The hierarchy of Heaven, like the hierarchy on...

August 24, 2016

The hierarchy imitates God, Angels: Day 034

The hierarchy imitates God Dionysius the Areopagite explains that each member of a hierarchy—among the angels...

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