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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

As much as the angels worship at the
throne can see God, when it comes to matters of
faith, angels bow with us in the humble union and
most especially at Mass. This is not as strange as it
might seem unless you still think that angels are
divine and supernatural rather than creatures.
Because they are creatures, they too need faith as
we do to believe that God shares his divine life
with us.
This is how St Thomas puts it, “That
heaven's welcome waits for those who welcomed
God, that hell's misery confirms the sinner's
choice, that the Son of Mary is also the Son of God,
that the living Christ is present in the Eucharist,
Calvary renewed in the Mass that grace pours into
the soul through the sacraments.
All these the angels know only as we do -
by believing them on the Word of God. Angels are
a part of nature, as we are; their powers are
natural powers. What they have of the
supernatural, whether it be life, truth, action, or
goal, is theirs only through the boundless
generosity of the only supernatural Being, God
Himself.”
The most important point here is that they
can only know all this by believing the Word of
God, that is, the Bible and what it contains. This
only strengthens my position in my calling to
preach the Word and encourage people to know it
for themselves. It also vindicates me regarding the
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