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Title: Angelic Guidance Post by: eschator83 on January 14, 2022, 11:21:15 AM O God, who in Thy Providence dost vouchsafe to send Thy Holy Angels to keep watch over us, grant that we may always be defended and shielded by them and rejoice in their fellowship. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
From The Prayer Book, Library of Catholic Devotion Title: Re: Angelic Guidance Post by: eschator83 on February 16, 2022, 11:56:58 AM Angel of God and well-beloved brother, I trust myself to your beneficence and implore you to intercede for me with my Spouse, so that He may forgive my sins, strengthen me in well-doing, help me by His Grace to correct my faults, and lead me to Paradise, there to taste the fruition of His Presence and to possess Eternal Life. Amen
St Lydwine of Schiedam Title: Re: Angelic Guidance Post by: Shin on February 16, 2022, 03:52:19 PM Amen. :D
Title: Re: Angelic Guidance Post by: Benedict on February 16, 2022, 11:52:59 PM "THE ANGELS
168. The angels are our shepherds, because they carry not only our message to God, but also those of God to our souls, feeding them with sweet inspirations and divine communications: as good shepherds they protect us, and defend us from the wolves, which are the evil spirits. 169. Through the secret inspirations which the angels convey to the soul, they effect a deeper knowledge of God, and make it love Him the more, till they leave it wounded with love. 170. The divine wisdom which in heaven illumines the angels, and cleanses them of their ignorances, is the same which illumines men upon earth, and cleanses them of their errors and imperfections; it flows from God through the first orders of the hierarchies down to the lowest, and thence to men. 171. The light of God, which illumines an angel, enlightening and setting him on fire with love, as pure spirit disposed for that inflowing, illumines man ordinarily in darkness, pain, and distress, because of his impurity and weakness: so is the sun to a weak eye; the light it gives is painful. 172. When man has become spiritualised and refined in the fire of divine love which purifies him, he is then within the union and inflowing of the loving illumination with the sweetness with which an angel receives them. There are souls who in this life receive a more perfect illumination than the angels. 173. When God gives great graces to a soul through the hands of an angel, He ordinarily allows the devil to know it, that he may assail that soul with all his might, according to the measure of justice, in order that the victory may be the more prized, and the soul, faithful in temptation, may be the more abundantly rewarded. 174. Remember that your guardian angel does not always move the will to act, though he always enlightens the reason; therefore do not promise yourself sensible sweetness always in your works, because reason and understanding are sufficient. 175. When the desires of man are occupied with anything that is not God, they embarrass the soul and shut the door against the light by which the angel moves it to virtue. 176. Consider what utter vanity it is to rejoice in anything but in the service of God, how dangerous and how fatal; how ruinous it proved to the angels who rejoiced and had complacency in their own beauty and their natural endowments; for this they fell deformed into the abyss." Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church Title: Re: Angelic Guidance Post by: eschator83 on April 23, 2023, 11:05:15 PM Prayer of confession, faith, and worship
Benevolent Lord, Commit me to a good Angel who may deliver up my soul in peace and convey it undisturbed, through the malice of evil, to Heavenly places. Have mercy upon your creatures and on me, a manifold sinner. by St Nerses the Grace-filled Thanks to Benedict, posted here 8/20/20. I hope you are well and come back soon. |