{"id":6291,"date":"2017-02-14T03:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbookblogger\/?p=6291"},"modified":"2017-02-09T19:19:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:19:25","slug":"glorious-subjection-angels-day-206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbookblogger\/2017\/02\/14\/glorious-subjection-angels-day-206\/","title":{"rendered":"A glorious subjection; Angels: Day 206"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"angels_ambrose_2\"<\/a>All things are made subject to Christ\u2014but \u00a0what kind of subjection is <\/em>this? Not\u00a0<\/em>ignoble slavery, says St. Ambrose, but a glorious service of \u00a0the Good. We <\/em>a<\/em>r<\/em>e <\/em>subject the way the angels are <\/em>sub<\/em>ject.<\/em><\/p>\n

Are not all things now subject to him? Are not the choirs of the saints made subject? Are not the angels, who ministered to him when on the earth (Matt.<\/p>\n

4:11)? Are not the Archangels who were sent to Mary to foretell the coming of the Lord? Are not all the heavenly hosts? Are not the Cherubim and Seraphim, are not Thrones and Dominions and Powers that worship and praise him?<\/p>\n

But how are they brought into subjection? In the way that the Lord himself has said: \u201cTake my yoke upon you\u201d (Matt. 11:29). It is not the fierce who bear the yoke, but the humble and the gentle. This clearly is no degrading subjection for us, but a glorious one: \u201cthat at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in Heaven and on Earth and under the Earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father\u201d (Phil. 2:10-11). \u2013St. Ambrose, Exposition of the Christian Faith<\/em>, 5.13<\/p>\n

IN GOD\u2019S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do I take on Christ\u2019s glorious subjection willingly, like the good angels? Or am I straining at the yoke, like the devil and his angels, still trying to have my own way?<\/p>\n

CLOSING PRAYER<\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Michael the Archangel, teach me to say, as you said, <\/em>\u201cI will serve.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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