When angels hear us, God hears us in them; Angels: Day 218

When angels hear us, God hears us in them; Angels: Day 218 February 26, 2017

angels_augustine_2God does work miracles, St. Augustine says, but all according to his unchanging will. We can look at everything that happens as a miracle of God. And whenever we pray to the angels, it’s God working in the angels who hears our prayers.

Although we don’t usually think about the standing miracle of this visible world, because it’s always in front of us, yet, when we start to think about it, it’s a greater miracle than the rarest and most unheard-of marvels. Man himself is a greater miracle than any miracle done by means of man.

Therefore God, who made the visible heaven and earth, does not disdain to work visible miracles in heaven or earth, so that through them he may awaken the soul immersed in visible things to worship him, the Invisible. But the place and time of these miracles depend on his unchangeable will, in which future things are ordered as if they were already accomplished. For he moves temporal things without himself moving in time. He does not see the future one way and the past in a different way. Nor does he listen to those who are praying now differently from the way he sees those who will pray. For even when his angels hear us, it is God himself who hears us in them, as he does in his true temple not made with hands, as he does in those people who are his saints. And his answers, though they happen in time, have been arranged by his eternal decision. –St. Augustine, City of God, 10.12

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

Do I trust that God has a plan for me, and that my angel knows that plan? Do I go to my guardian angel, so that I may walk the sure paths God has arranged for me in his providence since the beginning of time?

CLOSING PRAYER

Guardian Angel, by your God-given power, you can search my heart and know me. Help me form the prayers in my heart, and join me in those prayers, that they may be pleasing to God, and I may do his will.

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