Year with the Angels

Mike Aquilina

Description

In his previous release, you were invited to a year long retreat with the Church Fathers; now, Mike Aquilina presents a new volume of contemplations and prayers about those most mysterious of all created beings: the Angels. Drawing again from the deep well of the Fathers' wisdom, Aquilina has compiled a year's worth of reflections on the Nine Choirs of Angels.A Year With The Angels invites you to discover the authority and strength of the Heavenly Host. Angels embody virtues, graces, and knowledge of the Truth because they stand before the very Throne of God. Among the Angels' responsibilities are governing the universe and the movements of nature, defending creation from the attacks of the devil, and acting as messengers of God to mankind. This year, learn to appreciate our unique relationship with the Angels - especially those assigned to protect us during our sojourn on earth. What better protectors and intercessors could we ask for than the first of all creatures who have beheld the face of God from their very beginning?

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian theology
• Catholic Church
• Prayer
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: St. Benedict Press LLC
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781618905505
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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DEDICATION
Dedicated to Terry Fenwick,
whose devotion to the angels inspires me.
Quotations from Scripture are from the Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition), unless the writer’s argument depends on a significantly different translation, such as the Septuagint.
© 2011 Mike Aquilina
All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in articles and critical reviews, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever, printed or electronic, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
ISBN: 978-1-935302-52-0
Book design by A.R.T. Services Christopher J. Pelicano and Abby M. Pelicano
Printed and Bound in the United States of America.
Saint Benedict Press Charlotte, North Carolina 2011
CONTENTS
PRESENTED TO
DEDICATION
COPYRIGHT
INTRODUCTION
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
A Y EAR WITH THE A NGELS The Daily Readings
DAY 01: We’re not the only intelligent life
DAY 02: All things have being through God
DAY 03: We exist because God knows us
DAY 04: The three kinds of intelligence
DAY 05: We’re part stone, part angel
DAY 06: Some truths about angels remain a mystery
DAY 07: The creation of angels
DAY 08: Heavenly beings as well were made by the Word
DAY 09: Descriptions of angels are figurative
DAY 10: How the Bible describes angels
DAY 11: The orders of angels
DAY 12: How many kinds of angels are there?
DAY 13: Myriads of myriads
DAY 14: The angels earned their roles in the hierarchy
DAY 15: Angels are holy because of the Spirit
DAY 16: A hierarchy of merit—or demerit
DAY 17: Angels are unchangeable because they love God
DAY 18: Angels derive their honor from worshiping God
DAY 19: The angels serve for their own benefit
DAY 20: Angels never lose the vision of God
DAY 21: The armies of God
DAY 22: What angels do
DAY 23: Angels know and do God’s will immediately
DAY 24: Like the angels, but different
DAY 25: Angels are spiritual, but still limited
DAY 26: Angels are limited; the Spirit is not
DAY 27: Angels have knowledge through the Creator
DAY 28: Angels are immortal by grace, not by nature
DAY 29: The angels’ immortality depends upon God’s will
DAY 30: Immortally mortal and mortally immortal
DAY 31: Angels are kept alive by God
DAY 32: There is an order in Heaven
DAY 33: Why a hierarchy?
DAY 34: The hierarchy imitates God
DAY 35: The orders of angels teach one another
DAY 36: Each order interprets the order above
DAY 37: The hierarchy in your mind
DAY 38: The body as a map of the angels’ minds
DAY 39: Everything is under God’s control
DAY 40: “Lord of all” includes the angels
DAY 41: All creation gives thanks to God
DAY 42: Degrees of knowledge
DAY 43: Sharing the knowledge of the angels
DAY 44: Angels bring us the vision of God
DAY 45: Angels as counselors
DAY 46: Spiritual bodies
DAY 47: We can’t understand all the mysteries of Heaven
DAY 48: Keep speculation in bounds
DAY 49: Remember your weakness
DAY 50: The face of God is the angels’ Scripture
DAY 51: The Seraphim declare the Trinity
DAY 52: The Trinity in the hymn of the Seraphim
DAY 53: The Seraphim surround Christ in the flesh
DAY 54: Thrice holy, one Lord
DAY 55: Praise and be silent
DAY 56: The vocal silence of God
DAY 57: Angels hide their faces from the Triune mystery
DAY 58: Angels know the Father through the Son
DAY 59: The Son has the unceasing praise of angels
DAY 60: To Christ through Christ
DAY 61: Even angels can’t really see God
DAY 62: Angels confess their ignorance
DAY 63: Even angels don’t see the essence of God
DAY 64: “Not even the angels in Heaven”
DAY 65: Angels speak to God in admiration
DAY 66: God speaks to angels in their contemplation
DAY 67: The inner speech of spiritual beings
DAY 68: When did God make angels?
DAY 69: The mystery of the Seraphim
DAY 70: The saints will take the place of the fallen angels
DAY 71: Light and darkness
DAY 72: The right and left hands of God
DAY 73: Day and night
DAY 74: God was in charge of creation
DAY 75: Reason tells us God is our Ruler
DAY 76: Why didn’t God prevent evil?
DAY 77: The devil has free will—and so have we
DAY 78: God gave us and the angels free will
DAY 79: When angels speak, God speaks
DAY 80: Imitate Abraham’s hospitality
DAY 81: Entertaining angels
DAY 82: Make your house Christ’s hotel
DAY 83: How to treat your guests
DAY 84: The strange case of Sodom
DAY 85: Anointing the stone
DAY 86: Sleep with your head on a stone
DAY 87: Christ at Jacob’s head
DAY 88: Angels ascending and descending
DAY 89: Christ above and below
DAY 90: Sleep humbly and dream of angels
DAY 91: Angels come to the virtuous
DAY 92: The modesty of Daniel
DAY 93: Jerusalem and Babylon
DAY 94: They listened to angels; we listen to the Son
DAY 95: Christ is the teacher
DAY 96: Everything comes from the Good
DAY 97: Satan was created good
DAY 98: Demons are not evil by nature
DAY 99: Evil exists only in the good
DAY 100: Angels have no creative power
DAY 101: Angels know the truth because they love God
DAY 102: Covetousness made an archangel the devil
DAY 103: Satan fell, and we followed
DAY 104: Not hurting anyone but himself
DAY 105: Satan is more guilty than we are
DAY 106: We are forgiven because of the flesh
DAY 107: We don’t deserve God’s mercy
DAY 108: God showed mercy to our weakness
DAY 109: Even angels are darkness without God
DAY 110: Angels and humans have free will
DAY 111: Like the angels, we have free will
DAY 112: Our freedom is different from the angels’
DAY 113: It’s good to be human
DAY 114: Better a prisoner for Christ than an angel
DAY 115: Satan presents himself before the Lord
DAY 116: Whence have you come?
DAY 117: Satan does not see God
DAY 118: God’s light takes in the darkness
DAY 119: Wrath against the devil is mercy on sinners
DAY 120: The world belongs to Christ, not Satan
DAY 121: Even Satan’s sin accomplished God’s will
DAY 122: The devil’s power to hurt comes from God
DAY 123: Even the evil angels are God’s instruments
DAY 124: Demons are weapons against the devil
DAY 125: Even magic comes from God’s will
DAY 126: The will of God is the cause of everything
DAY 127: Pursued by the angel of the Lord
DAY 128: Angels are avenging powers
DAY 129: Being punished is not an evil
DAY 130: Angels hate chastising us
DAY 131: Don’t listen even to an angel preaching heresy
DAY 132: Angels are bound to the gospel
DAY 133: Helping a heretic escape false angels
DAY 134: Judge the message, not the messenger
DAY 135: Keep the creed all your life
DAY 136: Let false hope perish
DAY 137: Against Principalities and Powers
DAY 138: Angels don’t stand between us and Christ
DAY 139: Lord, who is like you?
DAY 140: Giving the devil his due
DAY 141: Learn to recognize Satan in disguise
DAY 142: Angels don’t want our worship
DAY 143: Angels want us to worship God, not them
DAY 144: Worship God, not angels
DAY 145: Don’t be surprised by demons’ tricks
DAY 146: Demons can’t really give us prosperity
DAY 147: Let them laugh
DAY 148: Worshiping idols is worshiping demons
DAY 149: Angels want us to be immortal and happy
DAY 150: Satan takes on all shapes
DAY 151: Make no sacrifices to angels
DAY 152: Only devils receive sacrifices
DAY 153: How to earn the angels’ help
DAY 154: Are Christians atheists?
DAY 155: Satan does not control the Earth
DAY 156: Act like a demon, become a demon
DAY 157: Pride makes you think you’re an angel
DAY 158: Strength in weakness
DAY 159: Sinners are Satan’s graves
DAY 160: Angels suggest, but we choose
DAY 161: Don’t blame the devil for your sin
DAY 162: The Old and New Testaments agree
DAY 163: Angels will proclaim the gospel to the end
DAY 164: Christ was made man, not angel
DAY 165: God passed the angels to become one of us
DAY 166: The angels are evangelists, too
DAY 167: The angels learned the gospel along with us
DAY 168: Angels saw the Son when we did
DAY 169: Mary alone saw the glory of the archangel
DAY 170: Undoing Eve’s damage
DAY 171: We add our praise to Gabriel’s
DAY 172: The perplexity of Gabriel
DAY 173: Hail, O favored one
DAY 174: Why did the angel wait to tell Joseph?
DAY 175: Praised by angels, born in poverty
DAY 176: Angels were the first to preach Christ
DAY 177: The best news ever
DAY 178: Christ gives us the peace of the angels
DAY 179: A little child, Commander of angels
DAY 180: The Lord of hosts is with us
DAY 181: Angels join us in Christmas praise
DAY 182: “Increased in wisdom and stature”
DAY 183: “Angel” was his job, not his nature
DAY 184: The threefold temptation of Christ
DAY 185: At his humblest, Christ was served by angels
DAY 186: Demons recognize Christ but don’t know him
DAY 187: Christ was made less than the angels
DAY 188: God leads us past the angels to himself
DAY 189: Lower than the angels, but served by them
DAY 190: Even Jesus relied on the angels
DAY 191: Ninety-nine angels and one lost sheep
DAY 192: Is it an angel? Judge by its fruits
DAY 193: Who is the vinedresser?
DAY 194: The Cross brings us together with the angels
DAY 195: Angels glory in the Cross
DAY 196: Redeemed from the devil and his angels
DAY 197: No angel was worthy
DAY 198: Angels could not set us free
DAY 199: The angels wondered at the risen Christ
DAY 200: The Resurrection amazed even the angels
DAY 201: Angels proclaim the Resurrection
DAY 202: Who is the King of glory?
DAY 203: The angels announce the Ascension
DAY 204: Angels announced the first and second coming
DAY 205: Angels can’t understand the mysteries of salvation
DAY 206: A glorious subjection
DAY 207: Only the truth can conquer
DAY 208: Angels saw Christ in the flesh
DAY 209: A prayer for help from the angels
DAY 210: