{"id":32101,"date":"2015-09-29T11:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32101"},"modified":"2015-09-14T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T22:39:59","slug":"holy-archangels-michael-gabriel-and-raphael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/holy-archangels-michael-gabriel-and-raphael\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Master<\/a>Last year (Sept. 29, 2014) on the Feast of the Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael Pope Francis spoke of the archangels. In the western Church we honor three archangels but there others. You know another famous archangel, Lucifer; another relatively unknown is Uriel. Vatican Radio reported the following:<\/p>\n

The angels battle Satan for the destiny of mankind and win.\u00a0 They defend and custody \u00a0the greatest mystery of the Church, God-made-Man.\u00a0 Even though in Satan often presents \u201chumanistic explanations\u201d for his attacks on mankind.\u00a0 This was the focus of Pope Francis homily at Mass Monday morning at Casa Santa Marta, marking the Feast of the Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. Today\u2019s readings present us with very strong images:<\/p>\n

the vision of the glory of God described by the prophet Daniel with the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, before the Father: the archangel Michael and his angels fighting against \u201cthe great dragon, the ancient serpent, he who is called the devil\u201d and \u201cseduces all of inhabited earth,\u201d but who is defeated, as affirmed by the Book of Revelation; and the Gospel in which Jesus says to Nathanael: \u201cYou will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man\u201d. Pope Francis speaks of \u201cthe struggle between God and the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis struggle takes place after Satan seeks to destroy the woman about to give birth to a child. Satan always tries to destroy man: the man that Daniel saw there, in glory, and whom Jesus told Nathanael would come in glory. From the very beginning, the Bible speaks to us of this: Satan\u2019s [use of ] seduction to destroy. Maybe out of envy. We read in Psalm 8: \u2018Thou hast made man superior to the angels,\u2019 and that angel of great intelligence could not bear this humiliation, that a lower creature was made superior to him; thus he tried to destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Satan, therefore, seeks to destroy humanity, all of us:<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many projects, except for one\u2019s own sins, but many, many projects for mankind\u2019s dehumanization are his work, simply because he hates mankind. He is astute: the first page of Genesis tells us so, he is astute.\u00a0 He presents things as if they were a good thing. \u00a0But his intention is destruction. And the angels defend us. They defend mankind and they defend the God-Man, the superior Man, Jesus Christ who is the perfection of humanity, the most perfect. This is why the Church honours the Angels, because they are the ones who will be in the glory of God \u2013 they are in the glory of God \u2013 because they defend the great hidden mystery of God, namely, that the Word was made flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe task of the people of God \u2013 the Pope said \u2013 is to safeguard man: the man Jesus\u201d because \u201cHe is the man who gives life to all men\u201d. Instead, in his plans for destruction, Satan has invented \u201chumanistic explanations that go against man, against humanity and against God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis struggle is a daily reality in Christian life, in our hearts, in our lives, in our families, in our people, in our churches \u2026 If we do not struggle, we will be defeated. But the Lord has given this task mainly to the angels: to do battle and win. And the final song of Revelation , after this battle, is so beautiful: Now have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed. For the accuser of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before our God day and night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Francis concluded urging those present to pray to the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, and \u201crecite the ancient but beautiful prayer to the archangel Michael<\/strong>, so he may continue to do battle and defend the greatest mystery of mankind: that the Word was made Man, died and rose again. This is our treasure. That he may battle on to safeguard it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year (Sept. 29, 2014) on the Feast of the Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael Pope Francis spoke of the archangels. In the western Church we honor three archangels but there others. You know another famous archangel, Lucifer; another relatively unknown is Uriel. Vatican Radio reported the following: The angels battle Satan for the … Continue reading Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2530,32073,3237,32074],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32101"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32643,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32101\/revisions\/32643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}