ANGELS
“Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them. The Angels take great pleasure in helping us with our enterprises, when they are in accordance with God’s will.”
— St. Jean Vianney
ARCHANGELS
“It is from God, through angels, that we have learned the most beautiful of our doctrines and the most holy sections of our laws.” — Josephus
VIRTUES
“The vision of the angels
works softly and peaceably,
awakening joy and exultation.”
— Saint Athanasius
POWERS
“It is characteristic
of God and His angels
that in their activity
they give true joy
and spiritual exultation,
while removing the sadness
and affliction
that the enemy excites.”
— Saint Ignatius of Loyola
DOMINIONS
“The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate is their consciousness of the Presence of God.”
— St. Jean Vianney
SERAPHIM
“Seraphim* were stationed above; each of them had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they hovered.
One cried out to the other:
‘Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts!
All the earth is filled with his glory!’”
— Isaiah 6:2-3
CHERUBIM
“…the Lord Jesus himself,
leads them on
to the very fullness of truth
and eagerly unfolds before their gaze
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge
hoarded in the depths of His being.”
~ St. Bernard of Clairvoux on the Cherubim
THRONES
“…through the ministry
of the angels
we have received
the opportunity
to ascend to the things on high.”
— Saint Hilary
PRINCIPALITIES
“They place those
who are first in the last place
and the last first;
they pull down the mighty from their thrones
and exalt the lowly.
This is the source of their incentive to love.”
— St. Bernard of Clairvoux on the Principalities
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