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Magical incantations won’t earn you the help of the angels, says St. Augustine. What does earn us their help is trying to live a life as pure and good as theirs. If we do that, we can live among the angels on earth, even though our eyes can’t see them.
We must certainly not try, through the supposed mediation of demons, to make use of the good will or help of the gods, or rather of the good angels. In- stead, we earn their help by resembling them in their having a good will, through which we are with them, and live with them, and worship the same God with them, although we cannot see them with the eyes of our flesh.
We are not distant from them in place, but in merit of life, caused by our miserable unlikeness to them in will, and by the weakness of our character. For the mere fact that we live on earth under the conditions of life in the flesh does not prevent our fellowship with them. It is only prevented when we, in the impurity of our hearts, pay attention to earthly things. But in this present time, while we are being healed so that we may eventually be like them, we are brought near to them by faith, if by their assistance we believe that the God who is their blessedness is also ours. –St. Augustine, City of God, 8.25
IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .
How would my life be different if I took the life of the angels as my model? What would I do differently today?
CLOSING PRAYER
My Guardian Angel, never leave me unprotected and preserve me from the misfortune of offending God.
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