How do the saints and angels hear our prayers? Can we pray to them in our mind and count on them to hear us? Or do we have to pray vocally to them (out loud) to get their attention? As Monsignor Charles
A reader asks: “As I understand, Satan/Lucifer was a Cherub and the highest ranked, most beautiful and most intelligent of the angels. I find it pleasantly and humorously ironic — a chafe to Satan’s pride — that Michael, a lowly archangel, cast
A reader writes: “We hear about angels ministering to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. ... The next reference to angels is at the empty tomb, mysterious witnesses to his glorious resurrection. Can we assume that angels were absent during Christ’s passion?”
People should befriend their guardian angels, according to an expert on the topic. “This is not dissimilar to how we have human friends,” Mark Miravalle, author of the book “Time to Meet the Angels,” told Our Sunday Visitor. “What do we do
The Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael are messengers sent by God and are the only angels named in the Bible. Michael is considered Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, and leader of all the angels. In the Book of Revelation, he leads God’s
Catholics of a certain age will remember reciting a set of prayers after Mass called the Leonine Prayers. Among them was the Prayer to St. Michael. The practice was suppressed in 1965 as part of the reform of the liturgy following the
Parents are all too familiar with the sort of anxiety that can subconsciously nag at you all day long, before really kicking in at night. It is good to call upon the angels in times of worry and uncertainty.
A reader asks: “I bought a 14kt medal and would like to bless it. I don’t have anywhere to go, so I bought some blessed and consecrated water online, so hopefully I can do it myself. I was also sent a prayer
In a new essay, Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield, author of “Angels: Our Guardians in Spiritual Battle,” explores how, by contemplating the holy angels of God, we can overcome the stress and anxiety of the heightened expectations of Christmas. Msgr. Bransfield writes: “What
A reader asks: “I’ve been reading about apparitions where Our Lady revealed to the children in Fátima and to Sister Mariana in Quito, Ecuador, that some souls spend the rest of time in purgatory, some bishops and religious for 80 to 100