“Patient endurance attains to all things.
The one who possesses God is lacking in nothing; God alone is enough.”
-St. Teresa of Avila
For Reflection:
Could the cause of my current impatience be a deficiency in the things of God? How can I begin to rectify this today?
The Angels and Their Mission: According to the Fathers of the Church
Jean Danielou Pb 144 pgs
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Introduction page viii
In this moreover, they were simply the exegetes of Sacred Scripture, The Bible shows us Almighty God using “ministering spirits” throughout the whole of the Old Testament, making them the messengers of His revelations. On the threshold of the New Testament it is once again the angels who instruct Zechariah, Joseph, and Mary in the mysteries of the coming of the Son of God. The apocalypse of St. John shows them presiding over the growth and development of the Church. And all of Scripture proclaims their participation in the glories of the Second Coming.
