in.<\/em><\/p>\nWe will not know the other part of the Church as it really is\u2014the part made up of the holy angels and the powers of God\u2014until, at the end of the age, we join it to have eternal bliss along with it. We know the other part better because we\u2019re in it: the part that is separated from the heavenly fellowship and wanders through the earth. This is the part that the blood of the sinless Mediator has re- deemed from sin. This is our battle cry: \u201cIf God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all\u201d (Rom. 8:31-32).<\/p>\n
Christ didn\u2019t die for the angels. But still, what was done for man by his death for man\u2019s redemption and his deliverance from evil was done for the angels as well: because by it the hostility between men and the angels, which was caused by sin, is removed, and friendship is restored.<\/p>\n
\u2013St. Augustine, Enchiridion<\/em>, chapter 16<\/p>\nIN GOD\u2019S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .<\/strong><\/p>\nAmazing as it seems, the angels want to be my friends. Does my way of life put barriers of sin between me and the friendship of the angels?<\/p>\n
CLOSING PRAYER<\/strong><\/p>\nF<\/em>ather, send your Spirit to make my life worthy \u00a0of \u00a0the angel-guardians you have given <\/em>me<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Because of our sin, says St. Augustine, there was a wall of hostility <\/em>b<\/em>etween\u00a0<\/em>us and the angels. So in redeeming us, Christ gave the angels a great benefit <\/em>as\u00a0<\/em>well: he made us their friends <\/em>a<\/em>ga<\/em>in.<\/em><\/p>\n