Angelology

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Our present Meditation is on: Christ Strengthened by the Angels. We have already said that God became man in order to teach us how we are to follow His example. It is crucially important to remember that God not only became a man. He became a man with all […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Our present meditation is on: Peter’s Angelic Deliverance From Prison As we know, St. Luke is the great historian of the New Testament. His Acts of the Apostles are literally a continuation of the third gospel. But the gospel ends with the Risen Christ promising to send the Holy […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Although human reason can reasonably speculate that angels exist, the existence of pure created spirits requires divine revelation to make the fact absolutely certain. Indeed a fair index of sound Christianity is the acceptance of angels as created by God and now living in two states of being: those […]

By Reverend John A. Hardon, S.J. Our present meditation is on: Our Guardian Angels: Angels of Peace The story of St. Luke’s account of Peter’s deliverance from prison is only an extensive revealed description of the role of the angels in guarding the human race. Over the centuries, the Church has consistently encouraged the faithful […]

By Reverend John A. Hardon, S.J. Our present meditation is on: Our Guardian Angels: Angels of Penance and Prayer All that we have seen about the guardian spirits being angels of peace applies equally to their mission as angels of penance and angels of prayer. So true is this that when Christ instituted the sacrament […]

By Reverend John A. Hardon, S.J. One of the ironies of Christianity is that when Christ was born, His birth was announced as the dawn of peace. The angels of Bethlehem told the shepherds, there would be “Peace on earth to men of good will.” Yet, as we look around us in the world today, […]