THE SEVEN ARCHANGELS

 

The angels are our shepherds, because they carry not only our messages to God but also those of God to our souls, feeding them with sweet inspirations and divine communications. As good shepherds they protect us and defend us from wolves, which are the evil spirits. Through the secret inspirations which the angels convey to the soul, they effect a deeper knowledge of God and make it love him the more, till they leave it wounded with love… The light of God, which illumines angels, enlightening and setting them on fire with love as pure spirits disposed for that inflowing, ordinarily illumines people in darkness, pain and distress because of their impurity and weakness…

When a person has become spiritualized and refined in the fire of divine, purifying love, he is then within the union and inflowing of that loving illumination with the same sweetness as angels receive them… Consider what utter vanity it is to rejoice in anything but in the service of God, how dangerous and how fatal. How ruinous it proved to those angels who rejoiced and were complacent in their own beauty and natural endowments; for this they fell, deformed, into the abyss.

 PRAYER IN HONOR OF ALL THE ARCHANGELS

Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth, I praise and thank You, not only because you have created the heavens and called the numberless spirits into being. You created them most splendidly, endowing them with proper understanding and pouring out upon them the riches of Your grace. I praise and thank you for having showered your graces upon the good Angels and rewarded them with eternal glory after the time of their successful probation. Now they surround your throne forever, singing in jubilant accord: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your Glory. Hosanna in the highest!

Glorious servants of God surrounding the throne of the Most high, I praise You for that splendor with which God has adorned you so bountifully. To you, He granted the grace to remain faithful when Lucifer and his followers rebelled. Implore for me also the grace to persevere in His holy service.

Glorious hosts of the heavenly courts, resplendent light of God’s Kingdom, protect the Church and lead her to victory over all her enemies. Angelic ministers of the throne of God, conquer all evil and lead the people of God to victory.

Holy Archangels and all you angels of the Lord., intercede for us and BE MINDFUL OF OUR  NECESSITIES. Make us shares in your burning zeal and glowing love for God and all His people. Help us to become worthy messengers and true servants of God to proclaim His holy will, and to spread the peace of Christ in his kingdom. Amen.