Remember you weakness, Angels: Day 049

Remember you weakness

St. Augustine probably  ventured deeper into the uncharted territories of theology than any of  the other Fathers. Yet he was  always  careful to remember what his own limits were, and he was always ready to confess them candidly to his readers.

It certainly is a useful caution to myself that I should remember what my own powers are, and warn my brethren to remember what theirs are as well. We must not let our human weakness pass beyond safe limits.

I do not know how the angels do these things—or, rather, how God does these things by his angels, and how far he wills them to be done even by the evil angels, and whether he permits, or commands, or compels them from the hidden seat of his own supreme power. I cannot know it: I cannot penetrate it with the sight of the eyes, or clear it up by the certainty of reason, or reach out to under- stand it with my intelligence.

So I cannot answer every question someone might ask about these things; I cannot speak as certainly as if I were an angel, a prophet, or an Apostle. –St. Augustine, On the Trinity, 2.10

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

Where I don’t understand something about Christian teaching—something about the angels for example—do I allow the Apostles and their successors to enlighten me?

CLOSING PRAYER

Guardian Angel, you know my ignorance better than I know it myself; but keep it always before my mind, so that I may not sin through pride of knowledge.

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