Immortally mortal and mortally immortal, Angels: Day 030

Immortally mortal and mortally immortal

Both human beings and angels are mortal in a certain sense, says St. Gregory the Great. They can cease to be what they are now. But neither one can cease to be altogether.

Now either a human soul or an angelic spirit is immortal in such a way that it is capable of dying. And it is mortal in such a way that it can never die.

It is deprived of living  happily either  by sin or by punishment. But it never loses its essential property of living, either by sin or by punishment. It stops living in a particular way, but not even dying can bring an end to every mode of its being.

In a word, I might say that it is both immortally mortal and mortally immortal. –St. Gregory the Great,  Moralia in Job, 4.6

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

If death is to be deprived of living happily, what am I doing to avoid the death of the fallen angels?

CLOSING PRAYER

Lord, give me life from death, and bring me home at the end of this life to praise you forever in joy with your holy angels.

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