ANGELS

Contents:
WELCOME
INTRODUCTION
A NOTE ON ART AND ANGELS
ANGELS IN ART PRESENTATION
READING AND GALLERIES
SOURCES USED

Welcome to our presentation on Angels. We have refurbished expanded this directory once more, and again, being deliberately repetitive from time to time so as to permit as comprehensive a presentation as possible, for those who do not have time to visit each page. For those who do have the time and choose to read every page can disregard those portions that appear repetitive to you or use them as emphasis reminders. We have not as yet added Satan and his devils to this directory.

A word of caution regarding artistic representations of Angels:

Although Angels are bodiless spirits, their names, that is the ones we have been given, are always masculine. The Church has allowed some leeway in artistic presentations, as long as we recognize that when actual Angels did appear to the Saints they appeared in masculine form. You will note that even where PUTTI, cherubs [an artistic liberty which is permitted], are used, they are in male form, although some of the other Angelic representations are of less determinate gender. This occurs in Victorian Angels in particular. We mean no disrespect to actual Angels nor to cause any confusion, only to state that we are limited to the art available and only that art which is permitted under the [limited] artistic liberty according to the mind of the Church. That is why some Angels are not shown on this web site, no matter how pretty they may seem to be to the modern eye.

Glory to God the Highest, and on earth peace to men of good will!

READING AND GALLERIES:

DOCTRINAL SOURCES: COMPILATIONS

Overview:
WHO AND WHAT ARE THE ANGELS?
OUR BELIEF IN ANGELS: AN ARTICLE OF FAITH
THE ANGELS: PURE SPIRITS
ALL THE ANGELS WERE IN GRACE AT THE BEGINNING, BUT SOME SINNED THROUGH PRIDE
THE EVIL ANGELS ARE OUR ENEMIES
THE FAITHFUL ANGELS ARE IN THE CONTINUAL PRESENCE OF GOD, SINGING HIS PRAISES
THE HOLY ANGELS KNOWN AS GUARDIANS
THE GUARDIAN ANGELS' SERVICES TO US
WHAT THE GUARDIAN ANGELS DO FOR US

Fuller Explanation:
THE NATURE OF THE ANGELS
CONSEQUENCES OF THE ANGELIC NATURE
THE NUMBER AND VARIETY OF ANGELS
ANGELIC KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE
ANGELIC SANCTITY AND SIN
THE BANISHMENT OF THE ANGELS
ANGELS AND THEIR NAMES
THE NINE CHOIRS OF ANGELS, SECTION 1
THE NINE CHOIRS OF ANGELS, SECTION 2
THE NINE CHOIRS OF ANGELS, SECTION 3

Specific Doctrinal Sources ---- Revelation Concerning Angels:
EXISTENCE, ORIGIN OF THE ANGELS
NUMBER OF THE ANGELS
NATURE OF THE ANGELS
IMMORTALITY OF THE ANGELS
UNDERSTANDING, WILL AND POWER OF THE ANGELS
SUPERNATURAL EXALTATION OF THE ANGELS
THE PROBATION OF THE ANGELS
THE FALL THROUGH SIN AND REJECTION OF THE BAD ANGELS
THE EFFICACY OF THE GOOD ANGELS
THE POWER OF THE BAD ANGELS

Special Characteristics of the Angels:
THE COURTIERS OF THE KINGS
THE SEVEN ANGELS BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD
THE LOVING SUBMISSION OF THE ANGELS
THE ANGELS AT MASS

Guardian Angels:
OUR GUARDIAN ANGELS OUR BEST FRIENDS
OUR DUTIES TO OUR GUARDIAN ANGELS
THE ANGEL GUARDIAN AT DEATH
THE PROTECTION OF THE GOOD ANGELS AT DEATH
THE GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD
VISIBLE GUARDIAN ANGELS

Angels in Scripture:
THE OLD TESTAMENT
THE NEW TESTAMENT

OUR GUARDIAN ANGELS AND SPIRITUAL COMMUNIONS by Liz Middlemore
LILY AT THE WINDOW by Russell Gordon Carter
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL'S LAMENT
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES AND HIS GUARDIAN ANGEL by Fr. F. X. Lasance
TRADITIONAL GUARDIAN ANGEL PRAYERS, The Raccolta and Fr. Lasance's Prayer Book
DEVOTIONS TO THE GUARDIAN NAGELS FOR OUR CITY, PARISH, HERETICS AND INFIDELS
POPE PIUS XI AND THE GUARDIAN ANGELS, Catholic Treasures
THE ANGELS AND THE POOR SOULS IN PURGATORY, Fr. John Nageleisen and Catholic Treasures
SAINTS AND THE ANGELS
SAINT PLACID AND COMPANIONS, from THE LITURGICAL YEAR, Dom Gueranger

DEVOTIONS:

MORE TRADITIONAL GUARDIAN ANGEL PRAYERS
OTHER GUARDIAN ANGEL DEVOTIONS
NOVENA TO YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL FOR THE HOLY SOULS
NOVENAS TO THE HOLY ANGELS

OTHER:

QUOTES ABOUT ANGELS
CLOSER TO HOME
MARY, QUEEN OF ANGELS by Diana Serra Cary
MARY, QUEEN OF ANGELS AND SAINT PADRE PIO
MARY, QUEEN OF ANGELS: POEMS
LITTLE OFFICE OF THE HOLY ANGELS WITH SALUTATION

PRAYER FOR A HAPPY DEATH

TREASURY OF PRAYER:
GUARDIAN ANGEL PRAYER 1
GUARDIAN ANGEL PRAYER 2
GUARDIAN ANGEL PRAYER 3
GUARDIAN ANGEL PRAYER 4

GOD AND HIS ANGELS [SUB DIRECTORY] by Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P. and Martin Healy S.T.D.
ANGELS AND THE AGES by Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P.

ST. MICHAEL:
MICHAEL, MICHAEL OF THE MORNING by G.K. Chesterton
THE STORY OF MICHAEL: THE TALLEST MARINE
THE LITANIES OF ST. MICHAEL
THE CHAPLET OF ST. MICHAEL
POPE LEO XIII PRAYERS TO ST. MICHAEL
WAR-TIME DIRECTORY: ST. MICHAEL

ST. RAPHAEL

LITANIES OF THE ANGELS EXCEPT ST. MICHAEL:
THE LITANY OF THE ANGELS
THE LITANY OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL
THE LITANY OF ST. GABRIEL
THE LITANY OF SAINT RAPHAEL

FEASTS OF THE ANGELS:
FEAST OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS
FEAST OF ST. MICHAEL
FEAST OF ST. GABRIEL
FEAST OF ST. RAPHAEL

CONSECRATION TO ONE'S GUARDIAN ANGEL

ALL GUARDIAN ANGEL DEVOTIONS [DOES NOT INCLUDE THE FEAST]: TEXT ONLY FOR PRINTING

ABOUT ANGELS IN ART

THE ANNUNICATION
GALLERY OF ANGELS:
INCLUDES A SUBSET FOR ST. MICHAEL

SOURCES USED:

THE CATECHISM EXPLAINED, Rev. Francis Spirago, Doctor of Theology, Benzinger Bros., 1927, with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur;
DEVOTIONS TO THE HOLY ANGELS, Irish booklet, 1948, with Nihil Obstat and Imprimi Potest;
CATHOLIC TREASURES booklet #36: SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE HOLY ANGELS;
THE CHIEF TRUTHS OF THE FAITH by Fr. John Laux, M. A. with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, in 1934;
MY WAY OF LIFE: Pocket Edition of St. Thomas, The Summa Simplified for Everyone, Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M.
and Martin J. Healy, S.T.D., 1952, CONFRATERNITY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur;
THE GUARDIAN ANGELS, OUR HEAVENLY COMPANIONS, TAN BOOKS
with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur;
CATHOLIC BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE: CATHOLIC LIFE AND TEACHING, TRADITION, DCOTRINE, CHURCH HISTORY, Vol. 1
Virtue and Co. Limited, with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, in 1964;
[Note: We could not obtain an address to contact the publisher; it is our understanding that the series is no longer published or for sale
by the publisher, but only through private parties. We trust we are not in violation of copyright law by citing a few brief passages; there
was no listing for the Company in the UK entries available. If anyone knows otherwise, please contact us.]
ST. MICHAEL AND THE ANGELS: FROM APPROVED SOURCES, TAN BOOKS;
and THE LITURGICAL YEAR, Dom Gueranger, O.S.B., Marian House, 1983;
FUNDAMENTALS OF CATHOLIC DOGMA, Dr. Ludwig Ott, with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, 1954.

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