[ Today's Readings ]
Today we celebrate and thank God for the archangels. They help us, bring us messages from God and even fight for us against the enemy.
Michael and his angels battled against the dragon.
God does not intend for us to be on our own. We ought to pray for one another and avail ourselves of the prayers and help of others. Even more ought we should avail ourselves of the prayers and help of the saints and angels in heaven.
We conquer the accuser not by our own efforts but by our blood of the lamb and the testimony which our words and our lives give, not to ourselves, but to him. This testimony to Jesus connects us not only to the head but to the body. We join not only Jesus himself but his Church because the two are inseparable. And the Church consists not only or even primarily of those on earth. It joins us to the Church in heaven as well.
Jesus knows us as surely as he knows Nathanael. If we stay near to Jesus we find a connection to the Church in heaven even now.
And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you,
you will see heaven opened
and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
The focal point of all this is the mass. Angels surround us and assist in the worship of God. They carry our prayers like incense to the throne. Let us open ourselves to the full reality and power of this truth.
A surging stream of fire
flowed out from where he sat;
Thousands upon thousands were ministering to him,
and myriads upon myriads attended him.
Heaven is not as far from us as we think. Let us receive all of the help God has for us. There is a whole supernatural dimension that we often forget. Today we are called to reorient our lives in consideration of that truth.
I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,
for you have heard the words of my mouth;
in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;
I will worship at your holy temple
and give thanks to your name.
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