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Try to imagine the most wonderful spectacle you’ve ever seen, says St. John Chrysostom. Now think how much more beautiful it will be when you see the saints and angels in Heaven.
If we go out into a field and see the soldiers’ tents with their curtains, and the spears, and the helmets, and the bosses of the bucklers gleaming, then we are filled with wonder. But if we also happen to see the king himself running through the field, or perhaps riding with golden armor, we think we’ve seen everything!
Then what will you think when you see the everlasting tabernacles of the saints pitched in Heaven? For it says that they will “receive you into the eternal habitations” (Luke 16:9). What will you think when you see each one of them beaming with light brighter than the rays of the sun—not from brass and steel, but from that glory on whose gleaming the eyes of mortals cannot look?
And this is just the human saints. But what if I mentioned the thousands of Angels, Archangels, Cherubim, Seraphim, Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, Powers, whose beauty is beyond compare, passing all understanding? –St. John Chrysostom, Homily 6 on Hebrews, 11
IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .
If I meditated on the beauties of the angels in Heaven, how might that change the way I live my earthly life?
CLOSING PRAYER
Bright Cherubim, who are given a deeper insight into the mysteries of God, scatter the darkness in my soul, and by virtue of the Holy Blood of Christ, give me that supernatural light by which alone I can understand the truths of salvation.
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